Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner sentenced to qisas (retribution in-kind) for murder was executed at Boroujerd Central Prison. According to Iran Human Rights, on the morning of Thursday, August 20, a man was executed in Boroujerd Central Prison. His identity has been established as Hossein Moloudi, a 33-year-old who had been sentenced to qisas (retribution in-kind) for murder. …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Domestic media in Iran have reported the execution of a woman convicted of murder in Mashhad Central Prison. Meanwhile, human rights sources reported five prisoners being executed on similar charges at the prison yesterday. According to Rokna, a woman on death row was executed in Mashhad Central Prison on the morning of Tuesday, August 19. …

theguardian.com – Behdad Esfahbod was forced by the Revolutionary Guard to enlist as a foreign agent. But when they tried to activate him, he went public instead  Behdad Esfahbod ignored the IRGC’s coded message to get to work as a spy – and went public instead. Photograph: Supplied On 14 June, Behdad Esfahbod, a Facebook software engineer, received a text …

Shabtabnews – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) recognizes the United Nations’ second annual International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief ahead of August 22, the official remembrance date. In the statement the USCIRF states – “Commemorating the many victims of violence based on religion or belief is critical, but only the …

Radiofarda – A historical appeal of Amnesty International highlighted by one of the human rights watchdog’s Iran researchers has proven that Iranian authorities were aware of the execution of dissidents between July 10 and August 16 in 1988, which set the scene for the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners later that year. Raha Bahreini, an Iran researcher with …

Shabtabnews – In a statement The International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR) condemned the recent summoning, and detention of Ms. Mehraveh Khandan the daughter of Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh. The statement also drew attention to the Iranian regimes systematic methods of putting extra pressure on prisoners of conscience like “the blocking of Ms. Narges Mohammadi’s telephone contact with her children …

Shabtabnews – In a webinar on 19th August 2020, various human rights groups discussed the history of the Islamic Republic’s #Iran waged a war on religious minorities. This webinar’s focus was the forty year systemic persecution of the Iranian regime that has resulted in the death, disenfranchisement, and devastation all on the basis of religion. The panellist in this gathering …

Radiofarda – The Islamic Republic’s Court of Appeals recently upheld the sentences of Rev. Victor Bet-Tamraz and his wife Shamiram Issavi. They were sentenced to ten and five years in prison respectively Article 18 a website covering news on minority rights in Iran. The couple was charged with “evangelical activity,” “acting against national security by launching and running house churches.” …

Iran-HRM – Infected labor activist Jafar Azimzadeh has started a hunger strike since Sunday August 16, after being transferred from Evin Prison to Gohardasht Prison (Rajai Shahr) in Karaj instead of a hospital. Mr. Azimzadeh contracted the corona virus while in Evin Prison. After a clinic doctor diagnosed that he was an emergency case, prison authorities transferred him out of …

Iran-HRM – Iranian authorities executed five people including a woman on Tuesday, August 18, 2020, in the Central Prison of Mashhad, known as Vakilabad Prison. Three of those executed are identified as Ardeshir Bahadori, Ali Gholami Aghuyi, and Marzieh Ebrahimipour. Their executions have not yet been announced by the state media at the time of publishing this news. All the …