Human rights

Iran-HRM – Jailed social media activist Zohreh Sarv was flogged 74 times on Monday, April 5, before temporary prison leave. The flogging was carried out while the sentence has already been converted into a fine and after paying the fine, this part of the case was declared closed. However, authorities at Gharchak Prison told the activist that she would not be allowed …

Radiozamaneh – Zamaneh Media’s 16th Labor Rights Report, covering major labor rights issues, protests, and trends between January and March 2021 is available for download.  One year after the onset of the new coronavirus pandemic, a new wave of the disease begun in Iran in Feb 2021, hitting Iran’s economy hard; an economy that has been already stagnant due to …

Amnesty – This is Amnesty International’s annual report on the state of human rights in Iran during 2020/21, subdivided by key human rights themes. It is part of Amnesty International’s annual 2020/21 Report on the State of the World’s Human Rights. https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE1339642021ENGLISH.PDF

gatestoneinstitute.org – Companies are being pressured to scrub from their websites language about corporate policies on human rights, reverse decisions to stop buying cotton produced in Xinjian, and remove maps that depict Taiwan as an independent country. In October 2020, the Geneva-based Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), an influential non-profit group that promotes sustainable cotton production, suspended licensing of Xinjiang cotton, …

Iran-HRM – Four Iranian Baha’i women in northeastern Iran were taken to prison to serve their sentences for following the banned faith. Nika Pakzadan, Sanaz Eshaghi, Nakisa Hajipour and Naghmeh Zabihian along with another Baha’i woman, Farzaneh Daneshgari were summoned on March 27 to serve their prison terms in Mashhad, northeastern Iran. They were told to present themselves within 10 …

Amnesty – The global pandemic has exposed the terrible legacy of deliberately divisive and destructive policies that have perpetuated inequality, discrimination and oppression and paved the way for the devastation wrought by COVID-19 globally and within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Amnesty International said in its annual report published today. Amnesty International Report 2020/21: The State of the …

Al-Arabia – Iran-backed militia are using disguises to carry out their war of violence in Syria, local residents have told Al Arabiya as part of a new documentary. They plant sleeper cells and use bribery and brutal force to build their army and gain a further stronghold across the Middle Eastern war-torn country, according to sources. For all the latest …

dailywire- The Chinese Communist Party is reportedly detaining Christians in secret facilities and forcing them to renounce their faith or face being tortured for months. “A member of a Christian ‘house church’ in the southwestern province of Sichuan who asked to be identified by a pseudonym Li Yuese said he was held in a facility run by the ruling Chinese …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Three prisoners sentenced to death for drug-related charges were executed at Urmia Central Prison today. According to Iran Human Rights, three men were executed at Urmia Central Prison in the early hours of this morning. The three prisoners who were sentenced to death on drug-related charges had been transferred in preparation for their executions as …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Farhad Salmanpour Zahir has been denied medical treatment despite suffering from medical conditions. Farhad Salmanpour who suffered severe injuries to his spine as a result of torture and beatings in prison, as well as harassment of ordinary inmates, barely can walk and urgently needs medical treatment. He also suffers from a lung infection and is suspected …