Thursday , 28 March 2024

Human rights

What Led to Iran’s Instagram Ban Volte-Face?

Iranwire – In a “top secret” letter recently leaked on social media, Tehran Justice Department ordered that Instagram, Google Play (Android app store), VPNs and filter-breakers be blocked in Iran. The order was published by Nariman Gharib, a United Kingdom-based activist, on his Twitter account on May 19. It was attributed to Javad Javidnia, a deputy chief of the department. A few …

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Iran Narrows in on Repressing Farmers’ Protests as Water Crisis Spreads

CHRI – Protests by hard-hit farmers over Iran’s worsening water crisis are being repressed by state security forces as officials increasingly describe the protests as a “national security” issue. Environmental scientist Kaveh Madani explained in an interview with the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) that a major portion of the Iranian population “has become directly dependent on water for its …

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Supreme Court Strikes Out Sunnis’ Complaint Against Rouhani

Iranwire – Iran’s Supreme Court has thrown out an attempt at group litigation by Sunni Muslims against President Hassan Rouhani. According to Etemad newspaper, the Sunnis had prepared a 33-page complaint against the premier and registered it in the Supreme Court on April 28, 2021. In it, they said Rouhani had broken his election manifesto promises to ensure the rights of minority …

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Iranian political prisoner transferred to psychiatric hospital in Tehran

Iran-HRM – Farzin Rezaei Roshan, a political prisoner who has been in prison since March 2020, has been transferred to Aminabad psychiatric hospital in southern Tehran’s Shahr-e-Rey district. Babak Paknia, the prisoner’s lawyer, wrote on his Twitter account that the coroner’s office had written a letter in 2017 stating that Mr. Rezaei Roshan was suffering from personality and mood disorders. …

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Iran: Baluch Younes and Abdullah Totazehi Executed in Birjand

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Younes Totazehi and Abdullah Totazehi, two Baluch men who were on death row for drug-related charges, have been executed in Birjand Central Prison. According to the Baluch Activists Campaign, two Baluch men were executed in Birjand Central Prison yesterday morning. Younes and Abdullah Totazehi, both Zahedan natives and uncle and nephew, were sentenced to death …

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Iran: 4 Men and 2 Women at Imminent Risk of Execution in Shiraz

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Four men and two women sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, are at imminent risk of execution at Shiraz Central Prison. Informed sources told IHR that their cases have been sent to the Sentence Enforcement Unit and are expected to be sent to the gallows soon. According to Iran Human Rights, four men and two women are …

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Reality Check: Ebrahim Raeesi’s Record in Fighting Corruption

Iranwire – Chief justice Ebrahim Raeesi’s is standing for election as president on a “fighting corruption” ticket. For months now, powerful media outlets close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the office of the Supreme Leader have been portraying Raeesi as a trailblazer against nepotism and embezzlement within the rank and file. The reality, though, is a little different. …

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Cherry Trees in the Shahdad Desert: A Prisoner’s Reflections on the Afkari Brothers

Iranwire – Mohammad Ali Zahmatkesh is a teachers’ unionist from Fars province, currently being held in Adelabad Prison in Shiraz after a Revolutionary Court found him guilty of “propaganda against the regime” and “insulting the authorities” and gave him an eight-month prison sentence. He is also a fellow inmate of Habib Afkari, one of three brothers arrested for allegedly taking part in protests in 2018. Habib’s …

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