Human rights

Iranwire – An Iranian deputy education minister has said that approximately 30,000 children with disabilities are unable to attend primary schools in the country. Speaking on January 26, Masoumeh Najafi Pazuki also said that 140,000 pupils dropped out of school last year, while media reports have put the figure at over 200,000. Pazuki attributed the discrepancy to “deficiencies in the …

Iranwire – The Revolutionary Court of Karaj has sentenced a Master’s student in economics at the University of Tehran to one year in prison for engaging in propaganda against the Islamic Republic, as the authorities are intensifying their efforts to control the universities’ population which has been at the forefront of the 2022 uprising. Parisa Salehi was also handed a …

Iranwire – An Iranian woman prisoner in her 70s was rushed from Tehran’s Evin prison to a hospital after suffering a heart attack. Raheleh Rahemipour underwent an electrocardiograph on January 25 before being taken to hospital, Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner imprisoned in Evin, said on her Instagram account. The incident occurred as dozens of women political …

Iranwire – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk says he is alarmed by the “sharp spike” in the use of the death penalty in Iran, including the executions of two men earlier this week.  “The right to due process and a fair trial for all defendants must be adhered to. I am also deeply disturbed by reports of …

VOA – Iranian dissidents living inside the Islamic republic and in exile went on a hunger strike Thursday to protest a surge of hangings in Iran, which included most recently a participant in the 2022 protest movement who activists say had mental health difficulties. Led by jailed 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, those going on the one-day hunger …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Ahmad Asgarat, a man on death row for murder, was executed with political prisoners Farhad Ghobadlu and Farhad Salimi in Ghezelhesar Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, another man was executed in Ghezelhesar Prison in Karaj on 23 January. His identity has been established as Ahmad Asgarat who sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. …

CHRI – The surge in executions in Iran has triggered a passionate call from Iranian civil society, amplified by a mass hunger strike initiated by women prisoners of conscience in Iran, to abolish the death penalty. This powerful appeal, led by women, including the imprisoned Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi, has gained momentum following the executions of political prisoners Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimi this …

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 …