Human rights

Shabtabnews – In a new statement the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights  (IOPHR) expressed support for striking workers  of employees of Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Cultivation Industrial Company, who are simply striking to get paid their overdue wages. The statement also invited “all human rights activists around the world, especially Iranians living abroad, to contact the labour organizations of their place …

Radiofarda – Hashtags related to sexual violence against women have been trending on Persian Twitter after users spoke about their own experiences and named celebrities whom they claimed raped or molested them. Currently on Persian Twitter, #rape is among the top ten most used hashtags following those related to the current religious ceremonies and those in criticism of the Iranian …

Iran-HRM – The State Security Force on Friday, August 21, 2020, shot and killed two young motorcyclists in Shahriar, a town to the west of Tehran. Alireza Jafarlou and Alireza Goudarzi were returning from Mr. Jafarlou’s garden at 4 a.m. The night before Alireza Goudarzi had been working on the electrical and power network and facilities. Suddenly, the agents of …

Iran-HRM – Inmates do forced labor in the Great Tehran Penitentiary. This is according to recent reports from inside Iran. Some of the supervisors and prison guards in Ward 5 of the Great Tehran Penitentiary take advantage of the inmates who are in jail for selling alcoholic beverages. There are more than 1500 inmates in the Great Tehran Penitentiary (Fashafuyeh) who have …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner sentenced to qisas (retribution in-kind) for murder has been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for his execution in Sanandaj Central Prison. According to Iran Human Rights, a prisoner on death row at Sanandaj Central Prison was transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for his execution this morning. His identity has been established …

Radiofarda – Forty-four lawyers in Iran have urged a prominent Iranian advocate of human rights, Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh, and other political prisoners to end their hunger strikes and avoid endangering their own lives. The attorneys also demand the release of inmates amid the COVID pandemic. The attorneys say in an open letter that it is logical, humane, and legal to …

Radiofarda – A Revolutionary Court in Iran has ruled against fourteen activists who had protested mismanagement and corruption in the clergy-dominated country last November. Some of the protesters are sentenced to one to five years in jail. Announcing the verdicts, a Telegram channel in Iran reported on Saturday, August 22, that prominent pro-reform political activist, Mehdi Mahmoudian, was sentenced to …

Radiofarda – Mir Hossein Mousavi, who has been under house arrest since 2011 as one of the leaders of Iran’s proreform Green Movement was Iran’s Prime Minister between 1981 and 1989. One can still remember young men and women protesters who were executed in Iran during the 1980s without even establishing their identity. Their pictures appeared in newspapers on the …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner who appears to have been sentenced to qisas (retribution in-kind) for murder, has been executed at Khalkhal Prison. According to Iran Human Rights, on the morning of Wednesday, August 20, a prisoner was executed at Khalkhal Prison. He had been transferred to Khalkhal Prison from another prison the day prior to the execution. …

Radiofarda – The Islamic Republic Judiciary has summoned a well-known Iranian journalist and a “National-Religious” activist, Kayvan (Keyvan) Samimi, to serve a three-year prison sentence. Publishing a copy of the summons on his channel on the Telegram messaging app, Samimi has announced that he should go to prison on Monday next week. The 72-year-old political activist is charged with “assembly …