Human rights

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 …

Iranwire – A top sports official in Iran has been quoted by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting as saying authorities had “created the conditions” for sports venues to reopen in Iran. “From today, sports venues will be reopened in accordance with health protocols,” Dr. Amin Norouzi, head of the Sports Medicine Federation, told reporters on Sunday. From November 11, he …

Iranwire – Some Iranian films currently waiting to be licensed for screening in Iran are “inappropriate and un-Islamic”, the new Minister of Culture has said. Speaking in an interview for Iranian state television on Saturday, Mohammad Mehdi Esmaili, wondered aloud: “Is our cinema situation acceptable, in terms of issues and priorities? I’m in charge of overseeing movies, and I can’t do …

Iranwire – Schools and universities across Iran have begun reopening in a staggered manner, on a schedule first announced last month. By November 21, all classes are due to be being held in person again. Earlier officials said that once back, all students would have to take a coronavirus test every week. but now the Ministry of Education has said …

Iran-HRM – Mohammad Ashtiani denied vital medications in the Central Prison of Karaj. Prison guards and clinic staff in the Central Prison of Karaj widely and systematically distribute narcotic drugs and psychotropic drugs among inamtes. However, they refuse to provide the most vital medications to Mohammad Ashtiani.Political prisoner Mohammad Ashtiani has a heart condition and needs to take special medications every day. …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO)- Yasser Gargij, a Baluch man sentenced to death on drug-related charges, was carried out in Zahedan Central Prison on November 6. At least 96 prisoners, including a woman, have been executed on drug-related charges in Iranian prisons in 2021. According to the Baluch Activists Campaign, a Baluch man was executed in Zahedan Central Prison on the …