Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Political prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared who has spent more than 12 years in prison without one day of furlough, is under increasing pressure since her prison exile to Semnan Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, political prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared has been under increasing pressure since being prison exiled to Semnan Prison. She was …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Following his family’s complaint about the death in custody of juvenile offender, Danial Zeinolabedini on 2 April 2020 in Miandoab Prison, a trial has been scheduled to investigate his death on 19 December 2021. However, security and judicial officers tried to force his father to retract his complaint through coercion and force. While suicide was ruled …

VOA – The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British Iranian held in Iran since 2016, began a hunger strike Sunday to denounce the British government for “also letting us down” and failing to secure her release. Richard Ratcliffe plans to spend the night in a tent outside the Foreign Office, a week after his wife lost her appeal on a …

Iranwire – Arsalan Yazdani, a Baha’i resident of Tehran, was recently released from prison after his sudden arrest by security agents on September 1 this year. The graphic designer has taken to Instagram to explain what happened – and the basic error by the arresting officers that justified his being taken away. Yazdani explained that during the search of his home, officers …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Cousins Ali Mohammad Mohammadi and Eslam Mohammadi who were sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for “murder during a tribal clash” have been executed in Ahvaz Sepidar Prison. Ali Mohammad’s mother died of a heart attack following her son’s execution. Their four co-defendants remain at risk of execution. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Baluch prisoner Nazarnaz Ghanbarzehi who was on death row for drug-related charges has been executed in Zahedan Central Prison. At least 94 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 morning …

Iran-HRM – A woman who was tortured for three years by her husband was attacked by a prosecutor for speaking to the media. Parastoo Navardi, a 36 year old mother of two was tortured and sexually abused by her drug addict husband in Abadan located in Khuzestan Province. In a video recently shared on social media, Parastoo said her husband …

Iranwire – Four Iranian Baha’i citizens from Shiraz, Negar Ghaderi Sadi, Moin Misaghi, Hayedeh Forootan and his son, Mehran Mosalanejad, are still being held in solitary confinement in Shiraz Police Detention Center 201 a month after their arrests. So far, the authorities have not given a clear answer to the detainees’ families on either the charges or why they have been kept …

Iranwire – Security agents have arrested two labor activists near Rasht in Gilan province and taken them to an undisclosed location, an Iranian workers’ union has reported. The arrests followed workers’ protests across Gilan, Mazandaran and Golestan provinces, with over 3,000 workers demanding to be paid. Some said they had not been paid their wages for 15 months. ”The workers and their families are in a …

CHRI – A prominent defense attorney in Iran bit off part of his tongue after being forcibly given an injection that brought on seizures while detained by the intelligence organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned after viewing medical records. Payam Derafshan—a former chairman of the Iranian Bar Association’s Lawyers’ …