Human rights

Iranwire – An ex-official in the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence has claimed dissident blogger Ruhollah Zam was abducted in 2019 with the help of the French security services. Speaking to the Iranian news site Event-24, Akbar Khoskhushk claimed the two countries were “dealing with each other. They ask each other for favors.” Zam, the founder of opposition Telegram channel Amad News, had …

Iranwire – “Our children were killed for nothing. As long as I live and breathe, I will try to understand what happened to my son in those final moments.” These are the words of Sedigheh Turani, the mother of Farhad Mojdam. Farhad was killed on November 17, 2019, shot dead by security forces in Malard, Tehran province. A week before the …

Iranwire – At the time of writing, Richard Ratcliffe, husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, had been on a wet hunger strike outside the British Foreign Office in London for 17 days. His body has begun to reach now, worrying his family. But there has been close to zero response from UK government officials – he had a single meeting with Foreign Secretary Liz Truss …

VOA – Human Rights Watch warned Wednesday that a new Iranian law aimed at raising the birth rate would put women’s lives at risk by denying them access to reproductive health care. The bill, which is expected to become law later this month, provides various additional benefits to families with children and outlaws sterilization and free distribution of contraceptives in …

Iranwire – A spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary has said Habib Asyud, better known as Habib Chaab, the founder and former leader of the Al-Ahvaz Liberation Arab Movement, has been indicted and his case has been referred to the Revolutionary Court. Zabihollah Khodaeian described the Swedish national as “leader of the terrorist and separatist group Al-Ahvazieh, backed by the foreign …

Iranwire – The seizure of lands owned by Baha’is in the village of Roshankooh, in Iran’s Mazandaran province, was captured on video on 3 November. Two videos shared by the Baha’i International Community on Twitter show crowds of people watching as men in military fatigues fenced off a field belonging to a Baha’i family. The narrator of the video, apparently that of …

Iranwire – Health workers are the front line in our defense against the coronavirus pandemic – including hundreds of Iranian Baha’i doctors and nurses. But they are not in Iran; instead, they live in countries around the world, treating their patients, where they are admired and praised by the people and governments of the countries where they live. The one country …

Iran-HRM – Female worker dies as a spinning machine pulls in her head The scarf of a woman got caught up in the machinery in a spinning factory in Semnan, NE Iran, and pulled her head inside the machine. Marzieh Taherian, 21, was working with a spinning machine when her scarf caught in a ring spinning machine, leading to her …

Iran Human Rights –  The Iran Atrocities Tribunal, initiated to investigate the killing and wounding of thousands of innocent protesters in Iran in 2019, will begin a series of hearings commencing on 10th November in London to assess whether crimes committed by individuals in the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the Supreme Leader Ali Khamanei, and President Ebrahim Raisi, constitutecrimes …

RFL/RE – Iran’s Press Supervisory Board has shut down a newspaper apparently over a graphic that depicted the hand of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in connection with a story about rising poverty in the country. Alaedin Zohourian, the head of the press supervisory board, told the official government news agency IRNA on November 8 that board members had decided to cancel …