Human rights

Iranwire – Last week, the police commander in the central city of Qom, Mohammadreza Mirheidari, stated that warning messages had been sent to the owners of 74,000 cars in the past 10 months for hijab violations. Mirheidari also reported that 13,000 cars had been impounded because their occupants opposed mandatory hijab.  Women residing in the most religious or traditional cities …

Iranwire – The Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has upheld the death penalty for Yousef Ahmadi, a Kurdish political prisoner accused of “waging armed rebellion.” Ahmadi is currently held in Sanandaj prison, in Kurdistan province. According to reports, three other Sunni Kurdish defendants in the same case — Mohammad Karimi, Baset Karimi and Mohammad Faizi — received …

Iranwire – Many Iranians, including activists and prisoners’ relatives, have expressed support behind the decision by dozens of political women incarcerated in Tehran’s Evin prison to launch a hunger strike this week to protest executions in the country. The hashtag #NoToExecution was trending among Iranian social media users after a message posted on the X account of jailed Nobel Peace …

Iranwire – The US Office of the Special Envoy for Iran has strongly condemned this week’s “unjust” execution of a young Iranian man who was sentenced to death in connection with nationwide protests against the clerical establishment. Mohammad Ghobadlou, 23, was handed capital punishment for allegedly running over a police officer with his car and killing him during a protest …

Iranwire – Human Rights Watch (HRW) says at least 11 prisoners in Iran are at risk of imminent execution, including eight Kurds and two Baluch, as the authorities have recently “escalated executions at an alarming rate.” These prisoners “face the death penalty on political or security-related charges that under international law should never result in the death penalty, a grave …

Iranwire – The Iranian authorities arrested on January 23 two men who suffered eye injuries during the 2022 nationwide protests against the Islamic Republic’s leadership. A source close to Amir Velayati’s family said that he was taken to prison after being summoned to the Evin Prosecutor’s Office in Tehran, according to the HRANA human rights website. Meanwhile, the Hengaw news agency reported …

Iranwire – Two UN experts marked International Day of the Endangered Lawyer on January 24 with a statement hailing lawyers in Iran for their “brave commitment to the rule of law and their persistent efforts to exercise their profession independently and with integrity despite enormous obstacles and pressures.” At least 66 lawyers have been arrested and detained since nationwide protests …

Iran-HRM – On the evening of Friday, January 19, 2024, a 20-year-old woman named Anahita Amirpour was killed in the Nezamabad area of Borujerd as a result of direct gunfire by plainclothes officers of the Borujerd Intelligence Department. According to reports received by Iran Human Rights Monitor (IranHRM), Anahita Amirpour, a first-semester student of Physical Education at the Islamic Azad …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Massoud Rigi, a Baluch man on death row for murder, was executed in Zahedan Central Prison. According to Haal Vsh, a Baluch man was executed in Zahedan Central Prison on 22 January. His identity has been reported as 24-year-old Massoud Rigi from the Shirabad region of Zahedan. He was arrested over two years ago in …

Amnesty – The Iranian authorities’ executions of two men after egregiously unfair trials mark a harrowing descent into new realms of cruelty, said Amnesty International today. On 23 January 2024 at dawn, the authorities arbitrarily executed Mohammad Ghobadlou, a 23-year-old protester with a mental disability, following a process and ruling shrouded in secrecy. On the same day, they also arbitrarily executed Farhad …