Human rights

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 …

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic of Iran is a singular political system in many respects. Over the past 42 years, a considerable number of its officials have faced criminal charges in other countries. What other country’s accredited diplomats have been convicted in a foreign court of law for planning a bomb attack? In what other country are citizens fighting to …

Iranwire – On April 1, on the same day that supporters of the Islamic Republic celebrated the 42nd anniversary of the republic’s official establishment, a group of activists championing civil rights, women’s rights, human rights and political freedoms, from different backgrounds and different belief systems, joined together to keep the voices of the victims of the regime’s injustice alive, and to …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) –  According to Article 156 of the Iranian Constitution: “The Judiciary shall be an independent power that protects individual and social rights”. However, Article 157 of the Constitution undermines the impartiality and independence of the judiciary and states: “The Head of the Judiciary is directly appointed and supervised by the Supreme Leader”, who under the Constitution is the Head of …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – At least six prisoners on death row for drug-related charges, were transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions in Urmia Central Prison hours ago. The families of the prisoners gathered in protest outside the prison after paying their last visits. According to Iran Human Rights, at least six male men were transferred to …