Human rights

Iran Human Rights – Kurdish language teacher and human rights defender, Zara Mohammadi, has been notified by text of her five-year prison sentence for charges of “forming a group against national security,” being upheld by Branch 4 of the Provincial Court of Appeals. According to Iran Human Rights, on February 13, Zara Mohammadi received a text informing her that Branch 4 …

Iran Human Rights (IHR)- Saeed Ali-Mohammadi, a prisoner sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, has been executed at Nour Prison, Mazandaran. According to Rokna, a male prisoner was executed at Nour Prison on the morning of Sunday, February 14. The identity of the prisoner who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in kind) for murder, has only been reported as S.A by Rokna. Iran Human Rights’ …

Amnesty – The Iranian authorities must immediately end the unlawful and arbitrary detention of former presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Mir Hossein Mousavi’s wife, Zahra Rahnavard, and provide them with adequate reparation for the violation of their right to liberty and other harm suffered, Amnesty International said on the tenth anniversary of the dissidents’ house arrest. …

RFL/RE – Kameel Ahmady spent years in Iran compiling research into the treatment of some of the most vulnerable elements of society.His widely praised anthropological work shone a light on child marriage, sexual orientation, minorities and ethnicity, as well as official silence over the ongoing practice in Iran of female genital mutilation.More recently, with a long prison sentence pending as …

VOA – An Iranian journalist has told VOA that authorities have given him an effective two-year prison sentence and other punishments for writing about a corruption case against a senior Iranian official’s relative, making him the latest journalist to face official retaliation for his work in the Islamic Republic. In a Tuesday Skype video interview with VOA Persian from his …

Iran-HRM – The authorities of the Central Prison of Tabriz prevented medical treatment of political prisoner Massoumeh Senobari on Wednesday, February 10, 2021. She has developed cancerous mass in her breast while being interrogated under vicious torture. Presently, she suffers from severe pain and is suspected of breast cancer. An informed source says about Massoumeh Senobari: “The situation in the clinic of …

Iranwire – The two jailed brothers of Navid Afkari, the wrestler who was executed on September 12, 2020 amid international condemnation, have been banned from seeing their family. Iran International News Network reported that Vahid and Habib Afkari have been pressured into saying they are refusing visits as part of a protest. A source with close links to the Afkari family told the …

Iranwire – A leaked letter signed by Iran’s Vice President for Legal Affairs addressed to the Social Security Organization has found its way onto social media, and disturbed the sleep of workers up and down the country. The letter, which is dated January 27, 2021 and signed by Pejman Mohammadi, a coordination and planning deputy at the body’s Department of …

Iranwire – Parisa Rafiei, a University of Tehran labor activist turned political prisoner at Evin Prison, has just had another 15 months added to her prison sentence. Rafiei was among the students who were arrested after protests in January 2017, and she was later released on bail. But then in August 2018, she was sentenced to one year in prison …

Amnesty – Three death row prisoners from Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority, Ali Khasraji, Hossein Silawi and Jasem Heidary, have sewn their lips together and been on hunger strike since 23 January 2021 in Sheiban prison in Ahvaz, Khuzestan province, in protest at their prison conditions, denial of family visits, and the ongoing threat of execution. A fourth Ahwazi Arab prisoner, …