Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Whistleblower Farhad Salmanpour is facing new fabricated charges after speaking out about the suspicious death of Shahin Naseri in custody. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, Farhad Salmanpour who is held in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary, is facing new fabricated charges by the Fashafuyeh Revolutionary Court after exposing details of Shahin Naseri’s suspicious …

Shabtabnews –  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) released a report earlier this month regarding the ongoing situation in China facing the Uyghur population. The 60 page report is titled, “To Make Us Slowly Disappear”: The Chinese Government’s Assault on the Uyghurs. The report discusses the background of discrimination Uyghurs have faced in the past, what is currently happening to them, policy …

RFL/RE – A hacktivist group calling itself Edalat-e Ali (Ali’s Justice) has rocked the Iranian establishment in recent months by leaking videos and confidential documents that appear to show the systematic mistreatment of inmates at Iran’s most notorious prison. But to this point the group has revealed little about its makeup or goals. Now, in an exclusive interview with RFE/RL’s …

Iran-HRM – Intelligence and security forces in Behbahan arrested Mohsen Ghanavati, Payam Jaihouni, and Amin Moradi and took them to the intelligence detention center in Ahvaz and the Prison of Behbahan. They took Mohsen Ghanavati to the Prison of Behbahan. Amin Moradi and Payam Jaihouni are in an intelligence detention center in Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan Province. The security …

Iranwire – Iran’s deputy minister of cooperatives, labor and social welfare has announced that the country records 13,000 work-related accidents every year, of which 700 to 800 are fatal. If correct, this would mean around three Iranians per 100,000 in formal employment are killed at work each year: a relatively high ratio compared other countries, even before the informal sector …

Iranwire – The long wait for the criminal trial of Keyvan Emamverdi, a former student at the University of Tehran’s Faculty of Literature alleged to have drug-raped dozens of women, was finally over this weekend. In October last year, Tehran’s police chief claimed the bookstore owner had confessed to raping “more than 300” women over 10 years, after no fewer …

amnesty – This document contains the details of 324 men, women and children documented by Amnesty International as having been killed by Iran’s security forces during their crackdown on mass protests that erupted across Iran between 15 and 19 November 2019, following the government’s announcement about the significant overnight rise in the price of fuel. Choose a language to view …

Shabtabnews – In a statement IOPHR declared that, members of IOPHR, in particular Mrs. Sharman Beheshti, who have made tireless and continuous efforts to combat falsehood and shed light on the deceptions that the Iranian security apparatus use to govern Sufism through the establishment of Gonabadi Sufi sect in Iran, for the second time in recent months, have been the …

Iranwire – From the very beginning of the November 2019 protests, senior Iranian regime members including then-President Hassan Rouhani denounced those who took part as “rioters”. The idea that civilians were acting violently, and also damaging public property, became a key justification for the lethal crackdown that was then enacted by security forces. The claim that protesters were setting fire to banks has …

Iranwire – The Aban Tribunal has adjourned in Church House, London after five days of witness testimonies on crimes committed by the Iranian state in November 2019. The panel has seen more than 100 written submissions of murder, torture and human rights abuses committed in 28 of the country’s 31 provinces. Millions of Iranians inside the country watched live broadcasts of the independent …