Human rights

Iranwire – “We are serious about eradicating abnormal clothing from the community as soon as possible.” So said the social affairs deputy of Iran’s Headquarters for Enjoining Good and Prohibiting Vice on Wednesday, October 27. Khan Mohammadi told reporters that certain garments on the market were “inappropriate” and as far as the Headquarters was concerned, “The production and distribution of …

Iranwire – The 33rd hearing in the criminal trial of Hamid Nouri, a former prosecutor’s assistant at Gohardasht Prison during the 1988 Iranian prison massacre, took place on Tuesday, October 26. Proceedings in Stockholm District Court opened with a surprise announcement: the judge said she would be traveling to Albania for two weeks to hear the testimonies of several plaintiffs who were …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Mohayadin Ebrahimi, Mohayadin Tazehvared and Davood Jabbari-Maraghush were transferred to an unknown location from Urmia Central Prison. They are all serving security-related sentences and both Mohayadins are on death row which raises concerns about their possible executions. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, three political prisoners were transferred to an unknown location from …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations condemned as “reprehensible” the latest report by the United Nations human rights rapporteur, Javaid Rehman. In a statement, the deputy of Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations, Zahra Ershadi “expressed regret” at how Rehman had relied on “ambiguous and unofficial sources” with information provided by “terrorist groups.” Ershadi did not specify …

RFL/RE – An 84-year-old Iranian-American who has been detained in Iran for more than five years has undergone surgery to clear a blockage in an artery to his brain, his lawyer said on October 26.The surgery on Baquer Namazi took place in a hospital in Iran three weeks after the United States called on Iran to allow Namazi to travel …

Iranwire – Those unfortunate enough to have experience of Iranian prisons are unanimous on the poor quality and exorbitant prices of prison store goods, which they are effectively forced to buy from. Convicts are convinced that the canteen food is deliberately so badly cooked that they’re left with no choice but to spend more in the shops, creating a captive market. This …

Iran-HRM – Honor killings in Iran are on the rise, despite ongoing protests and activism. In fact, the clerical regime perpetuates and systematically promotes various forms of violence against women. There are no exact statistics on honor killings in Iran, but in recent months there have been numerous reports of these cases in the media and cyberspace. In December 2019, …

Iranwire – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran has lamented ongoing and widespread human rights violations in Iran, saying that human rights abusers in the country are rewarded rather than held accountable. Speaking at a virtual meeting of a dedicated committee of the UN General Assembly Committee on Monday, Javaid Rehman said the state of human rights in …

Iranwire – Roya Jalali, an Iranian-Kurdish environmental and civil rights activist, has been sentenced to two years in prison by Branch 1 of Sanandaj Revolutionary Court in Iranian Kurdistan. According to the Kurdish news agency Kurdpa, Jalali, a member of the Environmental Society of Green Kurdistan, was accused of membership of a Kurdish opposition party. She was first arrested on February 2, 2020, when security …

Iran-HRM – According to a lawsuit a picture of which has been published in recent weeks by a faculty member at the University of Tehran, the criminal court sentenced a father of three small children to 40 lashes and prison for stealing three packets of cashew nuts, among other punishments. The Iranian regime is one of the few states that …