Human rights

Iran-HRM – Political prisoners Mehran Qarebaqi and Majid Khademi have been incarcerated in the Prison of Behbahan since a year ago. Agents of the IRGC Intelligence arrested them on January 18, 2020. They were under interrogation for one month, and subsequently transferred to the Prison of Behbahan. The public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Behbahan arraigned them with charges of “propaganda against the …

Shabtabnews – In a Twitter statement the USCIRF Commissioner @USCIRF_Bauer: stated that “#Iran continues to severely mistreat Gonabadi Sufi activist Benham Mahjoubi in prison. He must be given proper medical care and immediately released.” USCIRF Commissioner @USCIRF_Bauer: "#Iran continues to severely mistreat Gonabadi Sufi activist Benham Mahjoubi in prison. He must be given proper medical care and immediately released." https://t.co/F2OAFZehfj— …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoners Mehran Qarebaqi and Majid Khademi have been incarcerated in the Prison of Behbahan since a year ago. Agents of the IRGC Intelligence arrested them on January 18, 2020. They were under interrogation for one month, and subsequently transferred to the Prison of Behbahan. The public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Behbahan arraigned them with charges of “propaganda against the …

Iran-HRM – Inmate dies in Urmia Prison due to Coronavirus. Akbar Mostafa died on Sun. Dec. 27 in the dispensary of the Central Prison of Urmia from COVID-19 in the absence of necessary and urgent medical care. Inmates in the Central Prison of Urmia are deprived of the minimum medical and health resources. With the advent of winter, they are …

Al-Arabia – A Chinese citizen journalist was jailed for four years for her livestream reporting from Wuhan as the Covid-19 outbreak unfurled, her lawyer said Monday, almost a year after details of an “unknown viral pneumonia” surfaced in the central China city. For more coronavirus news, visit our dedicated page. Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, was sentenced at a brief hearing …

VOA – Iran has sentenced eight of its Baha’i citizens to prison terms and other punishments according to an informed source, in the latest example of the Islamist-ruled nation’s longstanding and internationally criticized policy of severely restricting the rights of its Baha’i religious minority. In a December 24 interview with VOA Persian from Iran, the source, who is familiar with …

Iran-HRM – Three prisoners have died in Evin Prison in Tehran in the period between December 24 and 28. The three prisoners suffered from the COVID-19 but they had been abandoned by Evin dispensary officials without any medical treatment. On Monday, December 28, Amir Hossein Mottaghian died of COVID-19 in Ward 4 of Evin Prison. He fell down on the …

Iran-HRM – Prison guards badly brutalized political prisoner Afshin Shahsavari, reports from Tehran’s Evin Prison say. The guards continued to beat him even after he went unconscious due to the severity of beatins. The reason political prisoner Afshin Shahsavari was brutalized was his support for ordinary prisoners in the quarantine. Prison guards struck him in the head and face. That …

Iran-HRM – Vice President of the Judiciary and Legal Commission of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) announced that the Majlis deputies are drafting a bill to deal with those accused of administering gambling website. According to the bill, the accused will be sentenced to death on the charge of “corruption on Earth.” Earlier, the director of the Center to Combat National …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Swedish-Iranian scientist, Dr Ahmadreza Djalali was transferred to an unknown location over a month ago and has been incommunicado since, causing his family concern over his fate. According to Iran Human Rights, political death row prisoner, Ahmadreza Djalali was transferred to an unknown location on November 23 and has been not heard from since. Expressing …