Human rights

VOA – The United States has reiterated its concern about Iran’s poor human rights record in its first official comment on the Islamic republic’s election last week to the United Nations’ top legislative body on women’s rights. But it fell short of the explicit denunciation of the outcome that many rights advocates had hoped for. The remarks, which were provided …

Iran-HRM – The state security forces opened fire and used teargas Wednesday against locals who were protesting the cutting down of their walnut trees by government agents in Sarab Kahman village, in western Lorestan Province. The Special Forces opened fire on villagers with live bullets and pellet guns, injuring and wounding many of the locals including women. Special Forces attacked …

CHRI – As International Labor Day approaches, workers across Iran are facing a deepening crisis and inability to meet their most basic economic needs, as reflected in the growing number of labor protests and strikes this past year. Yet the government has not only failed to provide solutions, it has instead increasingly suppressed peaceful labor activism. “The Constitution states that the economy …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – In 2020, murder was the most common charge and 211 of the 267 people executed had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind). Four juvenile offenders and eight women were among those executed for murder.  This article is an extract from Iran Human Rights’ 2020 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran. Read PDF version here. Qisas executions …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – In 2020, there was a sharp increase in the number of executions implemented in Kurdistan province compared to the previous years. Of the 267 execution in 2020, 60 people were executed in the four provinces of Sistan and Baluchistan, West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan and Kurdistan. This article is an extract from Iran Human Rights’ 2020 …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – In October 2019, days following his arrest and extradition from Iraq, dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam’s forced confessions were aired on IRIB. In another aired confession, IRIB reporter Ali Rezvani is seen interrogating a visibly exhausted and dishevelled Zam. This article is an extract from Iran Human Rights’ 2020 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in …

RFL/RE – A German-Iranian human rights activist held in Iran on vague security-related charges has had her first hearing at a Revolutionary Court, her daughter and human rights groups said. Nahid Taghavi, 66, was arrested in Tehran in October while on a family visit and spent nearly five months in solitary confinement in the capital’s notorious Evin prison, in a …

Iranwire – Reza Mohammad Hosseini, a political prisoner in Rajaei Shahr prison, has said in an audio file sent exclusively to IranWire that the Iran-Iraq war veteran Abdul Rasoul Mortazavi had been transferred back to the prison’s quarantine ward. Mortazavi lost a limb during the war and prison authorities have reportedly moved him to the new location without his prosthetic …

Iranwire – As Iran entered a new year, Iranian authorities intensified their crackdown on the nation’s Baha’i people. Iranian citizens continue to face mounting problems, including economic crisis, political turmoil that is likely to increase as the presidential election draws closer, and nowhere enough coronavirus vaccines to protect its population just as the country is hit by a fourth wave. But instead of taking steps to tackle …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Baluch citizen, Habibullah Sheikh-Hossein has been executed on drug-related charges in Sabzevar Prison. According to Resanak, a man was executed in Sabzevar Prison on the morning of April 26. His identity was established as Zahak native, Habibullah Sheikh-Hosseini, who had been sentenced to death on drug-related charges. He was arrested in Nayin city around two …