Human rights

politico.com – The United States and its allies in Canada, Britain and the European Union on Monday announced sanctions on several Chinese officials alleged to have links to what U.S. officials say is a genocidal campaign against Uyghur Muslims. The international, coordinated sanctions, first reported by POLITICO, drew condemnation and some immediate retaliatory sanctions from Beijing. The moves offered a …

(Reuters) – The European Union imposed sanctions on Monday on four Chinese officials, including a top security director, for human rights abuses in Xinjiang, to which Beijing responded with its own sanctions on Europeans.on Monday for human rights abuses  Unlike the United States, the EU has sought to avoid confrontation with Beijing, but a decision to impose the first significant …

Iranwire – Twenty-eight Iranian political prisoners have announced in a letter that they will be on hunger strike for the first three days of the Iranian New Year (from March 20-22) in protest against repression and in solidarity with the suffering of the Iranian people. The letter, signed by prisoners of conscience currently held in Evin and Fashafouyeh Prisons in …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Imprisoned human rights defender, Atena Daemi has been exiled from Evin Prison to Rasht Central Prison days before Norouz. Atena has been behind bars for more than four years without a day’s leave. According to Iran Human Rights, Atena Daemi was transferred from Evin Prison to Rasht Central Prison in handcuffs and shackles on March …

RFL/RE – Akram Neghabi has been searching for her son for more than two decades, despite threats, state pressure, and numerous futile attempts to get information from Iranian officials. Neghabi’s son, computer science student Saeed Zeinali, was arrested at his home in the Iranian capital in July 1999, a few days after big student protests at Tehran University that were met with …

Iranwire – Earlier this week, Iran Human Rights shared the appalling news that a woman had been executed in Rasht Central Prison at the hands of her own daughter. Maryam (Masoumeh) Karimi was sentenced to qisas (retribution) more than 13 years ago for having killed her husband, who was reportedly abusive and had refused to separate from her. In accordance with the …

CHRI — UN human rights experts* today demanded that Iranian authorities immediately release arbitrarily detained Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali who is reportedly in a critical condition and near death after months of prolonged solitary confinement. “Djalali’s situation is truly horrific. He has been held in prolonged solitary confinement for over 100 days with the constant risk of his imminent execution laying over …

Shabtabnews – More MEPs have joined the call for an investigation into the dire conditions of the prisoners in Iran and the unlawful death of Mahjoubi, who was killed through poisoning while in prison during the last days of his sentence. For full text see below link: More MEP’s have joined to demand the Iranian government to investigate the death …

RFL/RE – As Iranians prepare to celebrate Norouz, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is calling on Iran’s government to grant pardons to the 21 journalists and citizen-journalists it says are “unjustly” imprisoned in the country. The 21 men and women, whose “only crime was to do their duty to report the facts,” are preparing to spend the Persian New Year celebration …

VOA – The Biden administration is contrasting its criticisms of Iran’s poor human rights record from those made by former President Donald Trump, with a senior official saying the U.S. is trying to make its Iran critiques more credible by stressing a need to also solve rights problems at home. “President Joe Biden has made clear … that human rights …