Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Protester Mehdi Mousavian has begun a hunger strike in protest against his scheduled eye for an eye punishment. IHRNGO Director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam previously said: “Blinding as a form of punishment is a medieval practice that the Islamic Republic uses to intimidate society. The United Nations should not tolerate blinding as a form of punishment by …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Fazel Shafiei and Morteza Nadimi who were sentenced to death for drug-related charges and an unidentified man on death row for murder, were executed in Shiraz prisons. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Shiraz Central Prison (Adel Abad) on 24 January. Their identities have been established as 40-year-old …

Iranwire – A sharp rise in executions in Iran has sparked a passionate call from Iranian civil society to abolish the death penalty in Iran, with a growing number of activists in and outside of the country announcing plans to go on hunger strike to make their voices heard. The campaign has grown since imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges …

Iranwire – An Iranian deputy education minister has said that approximately 30,000 children with disabilities are unable to attend primary schools in the country. Speaking on January 26, Masoumeh Najafi Pazuki also said that 140,000 pupils dropped out of school last year, while media reports have put the figure at over 200,000. Pazuki attributed the discrepancy to “deficiencies in the …

Iranwire – The Revolutionary Court of Karaj has sentenced a Master’s student in economics at the University of Tehran to one year in prison for engaging in propaganda against the Islamic Republic, as the authorities are intensifying their efforts to control the universities’ population which has been at the forefront of the 2022 uprising. Parisa Salehi was also handed a …

Iranwire – An Iranian woman prisoner in her 70s was rushed from Tehran’s Evin prison to a hospital after suffering a heart attack. Raheleh Rahemipour underwent an electrocardiograph on January 25 before being taken to hospital, Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner imprisoned in Evin, said on her Instagram account. The incident occurred as dozens of women political …

Iranwire – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk says he is alarmed by the “sharp spike” in the use of the death penalty in Iran, including the executions of two men earlier this week.  “The right to due process and a fair trial for all defendants must be adhered to. I am also deeply disturbed by reports of …

VOA – Iranian dissidents living inside the Islamic republic and in exile went on a hunger strike Thursday to protest a surge of hangings in Iran, which included most recently a participant in the 2022 protest movement who activists say had mental health difficulties. Led by jailed 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, those going on the one-day hunger …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Ahmad Asgarat, a man on death row for murder, was executed with political prisoners Farhad Ghobadlu and Farhad Salimi in Ghezelhesar Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, another man was executed in Ghezelhesar Prison in Karaj on 23 January. His identity has been established as Ahmad Asgarat who sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. …

CHRI – The surge in executions in Iran has triggered a passionate call from Iranian civil society, amplified by a mass hunger strike initiated by women prisoners of conscience in Iran, to abolish the death penalty. This powerful appeal, led by women, including the imprisoned Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi, has gained momentum following the executions of political prisoners Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimi this …