Human rights

Radiofarda – Following the release of a video of security forces beating a citizen to death in the North Khorasan province Esfarayen, the province’s Military Prosecutor, Mojtaba Zare’, said that the victim’s family had filed a complaint entitled “shooting led to the murder.” Iran–A slogan painted on the wall in a street says: “Who should we call when the police …

RFL/RE – The founder and manager of Iran’s main video-sharing platform, referred to by some as Iran’s YouTube, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted of “encouraging corruption” over a video posted by a user. In the video posted on Aparat.com last year, children were asked whether they know how they were born, Iranian media reported. …

Iran-HRM – The Great Tehran Penitentiary detainees arrested during the protests in November 2019 have been sentenced to a total of 159 years in prison. The state-run Ensafnews.ir reported that more than 50 detainees in the Great Tehran Penitentiary who had been arrested in November 2019, have been sentenced to a total of 159 years in prison. Those arrested include …

Al-Monitor – Iranian authorities have vowed to press charges after video emerged of police officers using pepper spray on a man who had already been handcuffed and who later died as a result of the spray. The video of Mehrdad Sepehri handcuffed to a pole and being repeatedly pepper-sprayed and tased shocked many social media users. The incident took place …

Al-Arabia – Australia is seeking information from Iran on reports that a British Australian academic who was convicted of espionage has been moved to a mystery location, the foreign minister said on Monday. Kylie Moore-Gilbert was a Melbourne University lecturer on Middle Eastern studies when she was arrested in Iran and sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2018. For …

Radiofarda – The board of trustees of Royan City Cemetery in Mazandaran, northern Iran, has distorted the images of women carved on their gravestones without informing their relatives. IRNA, the Islamic Republic government’s official news agency, reports, the citizens of Royan found out about the move last Thursday, October 22, and immediately protested. “Putting the images of women on their …

Iran-HRM – A young man suffocated to death from exposure to pepper spray after the state security forces harassed and tortured him in public. A harrowing video shared on social media on Saturday showed a police torturing a detained man handcuffed to a pole with pepper spray and tasers in public. The young man identified as Mehrdad Sepehri suffocated to …

Radiofarda – Mariam Claren, the daughter of Iranian-German dual citizen Nahid Taghavi, is speaking out after her mother was detained by Iranian security forces at her home in Tehran on October 16, claiming she has no information on Taghavi’s fate. “No sign of life from my mother for 7 days! I demand clarification, I demand intervention, I demand her release! …

VOA – The wife of a jailed Iranian dissident has criticized Iran’s government for refusing to grant her husband a single day of sick leave in his 14 months of detention despite his multiple ailments and risk of coronavirus exposure in prison. In an interview with VOA Persian from her home in Mashhad this week, Sedigheh Maliki-Fard said her husband, …

Iran-HRM – Regime officials have also increased pressure on prisoners in various cities across the country. Inmates in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) are suffering from food shortages and starvation. Iran HRM has been told authorities at the GTP have increased pressure on prisoners in section 2.Inmates are reportedly being held in poor conditions, and that they lack sufficient access to food and hot …