Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Afshin Gheidar who had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Rajai Shahr Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, at least one prisoner was executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on the morning of July 14. His identity has been established as Afshin Gheidar, who had been sentenced to qisas on murder charges. The …

Iranwire – Twitter storm today, under the hashtag of #StopHatePropaganda and running from 5pm to 7pm GMT, 930pm to 1130pm Tehran time, will draw global attention to a 40-year campaign of hate speech conducted by the Iranian government against the Baha’i community in Iran, the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority.  A statement by the Baha’i International Community (BIC) in Geneva, which represents the Baha’is at the …

VOA –  A VOA Persian TV host and outspoken Iranian government critic who says she was the target of a U.S.-exposed Iranian plot to kidnap her has shared new details of the scheme, including its alleged aims of eliminating her and her popular social media accounts.   In a video message recorded Tuesday, Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad said Federal Bureau of …

CHRI – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) today condemned in the strongest terms a foiled attempt by Iranian state agents to kidnap Iranian-American activist Masih Alinejad from U.S. soil, and urged the American and European governments to urgently pursue policies that address Iran’s  kidnappings and increasingly unlawful and violent behavior. “This shameful kidnapping attempt was not an isolated incident; it stems …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Mehdi Ghanbari who had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on July 10. Several other prisoners were also transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions. According to Rokna, a young man named Mehdi who had been sentenced to qisas for murder was executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on the morning …

Iranwire – Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, the new head of the judiciary in Iran, has been linked to the murder of journalist Pirouz Davani in 1998. This has prompted Reporters Without Borders to again call for an investigation into the persecution of journalists in Iran. In an article entitled New head of Iran’s judicial system has journalists’ blood on his hands, RSF called on the United Nations Human Rights …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Brothers Amir and Akbar Jalilifar who were on death row for drug charges have been executed in Isfahan Central Prison. At least 45 prisoners, including one woman, have been executed on drug-related charges in Iranian prisons in 2021. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Isfahan Central Prison on the …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Four men sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, were executed in Shiraz Central Prison over the past week. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Shiraz Central Prison on the morning of July 11. Their identities have been established as Hassan Nemati and Mohammad Hassan Taheri and they had been sentenced …

Iranwire – At least four Iranian kolbars or border couriers have been shot and killed in Iran’s border regions in the past two weeks. Behzad Rahimi, an MP for Saghez and Baneh in Kurdistan province, revealed the killings during a sitting of the Iranian parliament on Saturday. Border guards, he said, were shooting directly at the victims’ heads and hearts. On the …

Iranwire – It has been more than three decades since the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, from 1980 to 1988, but the exact fates of many Iranian soldiers, who were killed or went missing in action, remain unclear. The Islamic Republic officially terms victims of this war “martyrs” and one of these martyrs was Yousef Ilkhichi Moghaddam, a Baha’i …