Human rights

Al-Arabia – EU member states have agreed to impose sanctions on four Chinese officials and one entity over Beijing’s crackdown on the Uighur minority, European diplomats said Wednesday. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. The measures, to be confirmed by foreign ministers at a meeting on Monday, are part of a …

Iranwire – With days to go until the dawn of the new Persian calendar year on March 21, hundreds of innocent people in Iran are facing the prospect of spending Nowruz behind bars. They include activists, journalists, lawyers, prisoners of conscience, political prisoners and dual nationals: some are being held hostage, but most are there because the insecure Iranian regime …

Iranwire – “I was teaching in the first grade of middle school. I told one of the students to read a lesson from the book. He said nothing. I asked, ‘Why aren’t you reading?’. One of students them stood up and said, ‘Sir, he cannot read or write.’” These are the words of a sociology teacher working in south Tehran. …

Iranwire – Three years ago in Tabriz, Masoumeh Jalilpour, then 26 years old, was sprayed with acid on her face and body by a man known as Muhammad N after she rejected his marriage proposal. The burns severely disfigured Jalilpour and changed her life forever. Following media coverage of the incident, many officials and agencies promised to pay for her …

CHRI — Proceeds from museum-quality, collectible prints by three renowned Iranian-American artists will benefit the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) in the inaugural “Changemaker” series by the sponsor, Art for Change. “We’re honored to be chosen for this inspiring initiative by exceptional artists,” said CHRI Executive Director Hadi Ghaemi. “Art for Change’s dual mission of supporting great causes and …

Iranwire – French tourist Benjamin Brière has appeared in court in Iran to defend himself against charges of “espionage” and “propaganda against the regime”. The 35-year-old was arrested 10 months ago and has been held in Vakilabad Prison ever since. He had driven his van via a scenic land route from France to Iran and documented parts of the journey on social …

Iran-HRM – The Iranian regime’s maritime forces opened fire on a group of fule traders, killing a young man in a southern Iranian port on March 12 and pursued other boats that fled the area. Folowing the fatal shooting of Baluch fuel traders, angry locals staged a protest gathering near the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran on Friday. The protesters burned …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, has been executed at Urmia Central Prison. According to Iran Human Rights, a male prisoner was executed in Urmia Central Prison in the early hours of this morning, March 14. His identity has been established as 32 year-old Bukan native, Nasser Valizadeh, who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. Nasser …

Shabtabnews – In a statement a group of MEPs demanded that the ” THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT TO INVESTIGATE THE DEATH OF BEHNAM MAHJOUBI AND TO ADHERE TO ARTICLES OF THEIR OWN LAW, WHICH PROVIDES PRISONERS WITH APPROPRIATE CARE AND MEDICINE. “ For the full text of the statement see below link: MEP’s demand the Iranian government to investigate the death …

Al-Arabia – New charges of “propaganda against the system” made by Iran against British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a week after she finished serving a five-year sentence, are “unacceptable,” Britain said Sunday. “It is unacceptable that Iran has chosen to continue a second wholly arbitrary case against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab wrote on Twitter. “She must be allowed to return …