Human rights

Iran-HRM – 18 Jailed dissidents at Raja’i Shahr Prison of Karaj wrote an open letter on March 21, protesting the exile of political prisoners and opening new cases against them. The letter, a copy of which was sent to Iran Human Rights Monitor, states: “during the last months, despite all the claims by the highest judiciary authorities about complying with …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Afshin Baymani has been denied medical treatment despite experiencing heart complications. Vaziri, the Prosecutor’s special assistant for political prisoners’ affairs has refused to authorize his transfer to a hospital against doctors’ advice. On Saturday, March 20, 2021, the political prisoner who is serving a life sentence in Raja’i Shahr Prison of Karaj, was transferred to the …

Iran-HRM – A Kurdish man was killed in a police shooting on Monday on Khorramabad Road in western Iran. According to Hengaw Kurdish website, the man was identified as Mohammad Sadeghi. The state security forces opened fire at the Kurdish man’s car on suspicion of transporting smuggled goods. This is while Mohammad Sadeghi’s car was empty and he was not …

Shabtabnews – Iran Working Group, International Religious Freedom Office Iran in a statement calls on the ruling regime in Iran to respect religious freedom. The statement declared that : “Since the inception of the ruling regime in Iran, a persistent theme of oppression has been the intensification of the persecution of religious minorities during times of particular significance for these …

Shabtabnews – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) applauds the coordinated sanctions that the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union imposed against Chinese officials Wang Junzheng, Secretary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), and Chen Mingguo, Director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau (XPSB), under the Global Magnitsky Act for committing …

Shabtabnews – IOPHR issued a statement regarding the Dire Health Condition of Teachers’ Rights Activist Mr. Hashem Khastar. The statement declared: “Once again, the IOPHR would like to draw the attention of all international organisations to the plight of prisoners of conscience and political prisoners in Iranian prisons, especially Mr. Hashem Khastar – the imprisoned teacher and activist, who has …

Iranwire – Eighteen political prisoners detained in Rajaei Shahr Prison in Karaj have published an open letter protesting the authorities’ recent deportation and transfer of political prisoners and filing new cases against them. In the letter, the prisoners of conscience refute recent claims by judiciary head Ebrahim Raeesi that prisoners’ rights are upheld in Iran. These statements, they say, were …

Iranwire – The recent news that Iranian journalist and political activist Mohammad Nourizad had threatened suicide and had harmed himself in prison as a protest against being denied treatment for heart disease has again highlighted the appalling human rights violations that routinely take place in Iran’s prisons. The journalist’s lawyer, Mohammad Hossein Aghasi, told IranWire’s sister site Journalism is Not …

Iranwire – Twenty years ago, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic infamously called parts of the Iranian press a “base for the enemy”. Days later, mass bans and wide-ranging closures were imposed on Iranian newspapers, leading in turn to an exodus of journalists. Now Ayatollah Khamenei has described the internet in the same terms, once again raising the spectre …

newsweek.com – The Iranian regime is shutting down the internet yet again this month—this time in response to the desperate protests in the Baluchistan and Sistan provinces. Tehran is methodically implementing a repressive playbook, imported at great expense from Beijing: first, label protesters as criminals; second, shut down the internet to prevent information from getting in or out; third, detain, …