Friday , 29 March 2024

Human rights

Protests Erupt In Iran Backing Azerbaijan In Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

RFL/RE – Protests have erupted in several Iranian cities, including the capital, Tehran, and and the northwestern city of Tabriz, in support of Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenia over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Videos posted online appear to show dozens demonstrating in the streets while chanting slogans in Azeri, including “Karabakh is ours. It will remain ours.” Ethnic …

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Belarusian Rights Activist, Jailed Iranian Lawyer Among ‘Alternative Nobel’ Awardees

RFL/RE – A Belarusian pro-democracy campaigner and an imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer have been awarded the Right Livelihood Award, a prize sometimes called the “alternative Nobel,” along with activists from the United States and Nicaragua. The Stockholm-based Right Livelihood Foundation on October 1 cited human rights activist Ales Byalyatski and his Vyasna (Spring) nongovernmental organization “for their resolute struggle for the …

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Iran Human Rights Monitor, Monthly Report – September 2020

Iran-HRM – September saw the third wave of the coronavirus sweeping across Iran. The scale of the disaster is such that the regime is no longer able to deny it. The Iranian regime’s deputy Minister of Health asserted: “The situation we have is beyond the wave. We are engulfed in a stormy sea. It is meaningless to speak of different …

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Iran: Prisoner Saeed Bolouri Executed

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner who had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder has been executed at Aligoudarz Prison. According to Iran Human Rights, on the morning of October 30, a male prisoner was executed at Aligoudarz Prison. His identity has been established as Saeed Bolouri, a Lorestan native who had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for …

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Prominent Iranian charity leader fights worsening health in detention

Al-Monitor – Held in solitary without a formal charge for nearly 100 days, Sharmin Meymandi-Nejad, the founder of a reputable Iranian charity, is facing deteriorating health as interrogators protract his indefinite detention. Members of Iran’s civil society have raised serious concerns about the prolonged detention and worsening health condition of Sharmin Meymandi-Nejad, a prominent activist, outspoken government critic and founder of one of …

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House Passes Wexton’s Uyghur Forced Labor Disclosure Act

Shabtabnews — Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton’s (D-VA) Uyghur Forced Labor Disclosure Act passed the House of Representatives today on a bipartisan vote. Wexton’s legislation would require U.S. publicly listed companies to review and actively audit supply chains for forced labor. Recent reports implicate a number of U.S. companies in the Chinese government’s forced labor scheme carried out against ethnic Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur …

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RSF Deplores Award-Winning Blogger Solitary Confinement

Radiofarda – Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières) has condemned the transfer of political prisoner Soheil Arabi to solitary confinement in the infamous Raja’ei Shahr prison. Iranian agents placed the 35-year-old blogger in solitary confinement after he exposed the “deplorable condition” of the Greater Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) in an audio file leaked out of the notorious jail. With an official …

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Political Prisoners Forcibly Moved to Another Ward in Tehran Prison

Iran-HRM – Some 82 political prisoners detained in Ward 5 of the Greater Tehran Penitentiary were transferred on Wednesday to Ward 2 of the prison, where had previously housed drug offenders. On Wednesday morning, the head of Ward 5 informed the prisoners who are mostly detained on politically motivated charges and participating in November 2019 protests, that all of them …

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Iran: Prisoner Shahrouz Kazemi executed at Dastgerd Prison

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Shahrouz Kazemi, a prisoner on death row for “moharebeh (enmity against God) through participation in armed robbery” has been executed at Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan. A video of his mother pleading with officials and people to help save her son’s life went viral yesterday. According to Iran Human Rights, this morning, Wednesday, 30 September 2020, Shahrouz Kazemi-Noureddinvand …

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Iran: Prisoner Ali Ahmadi Executed at Shiraz Prison

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, has been executed at Shiraz Central Prison. According to Iran Human Rights, on the morning of 27 September, a male prisoner was executed at Shiraz Central Prison (Adelabad). His identity has been established as Ali Ahmadi, a Kazeroud native who had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for …

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