Human rights

Iranwire – Security agents detained a Baha’i woman in the streets of Shiraz on December 18, as the authorities intensified their crackdown on members of the religious minority.   The officers took Yekta Fohandej to her home, searched it, and confiscated numerous personal belongings of the woman and her husband, including religious books and photographs. There were no other details available …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Samira Sabzian, a woman sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Ghezelhesar Prison. Condemning Samira’s execution, IHRNGO urges the international community for a serious reaction to the high rise in executions. Director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: “Samira was a victim of years of gender apartheid, child marriage, and domestic violence, and today she fell victim to …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – An Afghan national and a Baluch minority were executed for drug-related charges in Ghezelhesar Prison. At least three others are at imminent risk of execution at the prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Ghezelhesar Prison on 19 December. Their identities have been established as Abdollah Zamani, an …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Moslem Farahani who was sentenced to death for drug-related charges, has been executed in Zanjan Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Zanjan Central Prison on 19 December. His identity has been established as 40-year-old Moslem Farahani from Qazvin. Moslem was arrested for drug-related charges two years …

Iranwire – In a powerful act of defiance, Iranian singer Khatereh Hakimi has shared a video of herself singing “Safarnak,” accompanied by three women journalists imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin prison. The video, which was posted on social media, shows Hakimi playing the guitar and singing. The journalists Nasim Sultanbeigi, Elahe Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi can also be heard singing over …

Iranwire – Iranian Revolutionary Guards have shot dead a transborder porter, or kolbar, in the western province of Kurdistan, according to Kurdish human rights activists. The man, identified as Ali Qaderi from Baneh, was fatally shot without prior warning at the Asnawa crossing on the border with Iraq.  Qaderi, a 52-year-old father of four, was shot in the heart, and …

Iranwire – Tension was reportedly high in two predominantly Baluch cities in the southeastern Iranian province of Zahedan after armed forces stormed at least three Sunni mosques there and arrested an undisclosed number of people. The Campaign of Baluch Activists reported that two mosques were raided in the provincial capital of Zahedan on December 18, resulting in the arrest of …

Iran-HR – Hasan Khalkhal Zard, a citizen of Galikesh city in Golestan province, is a 32-year-old protester who has been accused of insulting the Prophet for participating in the nationwide protests of 2022. This charge could pose a serious risk of issuing a death sentence. According to the report by Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM), Hasan Khalkhal Zard was …

iranintl – Jailed Iranian dissident Zohreh Sarv, who ended her hunger strike following a call from Iran’s exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi, has sent a message of unity for the opposition. In a letter from the women’s ward of Evin Prison in Tehran to Prince Pahlavi, Sarv thanked him and expressed her gratitude to her fellow inmates, including Nobel Peace Laureate Narges …

Iranwire – An ethnic Baluch man died of a stroke five days after his 19-year-old son, Mahmoud Rakhshani, lost his life in the hands of intelligence agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to a human rights group. Haalvsh, an organization that monitors rights violations in Sistan and Baluchistan province, reported that Ebrahim Rakhshani, a 62-year-old construction worker, passed …