Human rights

VOA – Iranian lawyers representing three men sentenced to death for involvement in antigovernment protests last November say they have asked the judiciary for a retrial of their clients, potentially averting executions that many Iranians and President Donald Trump fear are imminent. Defense lawyers Babak Paknia and Hosein Taj were quoted Wednesday by Iranian state media as saying they and a third attorney, Mostafa …

Amnesty – There has been an alarming escalation in use of the death penalty against protesters, dissidents and members of minority groups in Iran, Amnesty International said today, following the executions on 13 July of two Kurdish men in Urumieh prison in West Azerbaijan province. Diaku Rasoulzadeh and Saber Sheikh Abdollah had been convicted and sentenced to death in 2015 …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Zahra Mohammadi, a civil society activist and Kurdish language teacher, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court on charges of “forming a group against national security.” She has twenty days to appeal the verdict. According to Iran Human Rights (IHR), Branch One of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court sentenced Zahra …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Two prisoners on death row for “narcotics” and another for “narcotics and premeditated murder” were executed in Isfahan Central Prison. A further two prisoners were returned to their cells after either settling with their victim’s families out of court or managing to buy time. According to Iran Human Rights, on the morning of Saturday, July …

​Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner, sentenced to retribution in kind (death) for “premeditated murder” was executed in Yasuj Central Prison. According to HRANA news agency, on the morning of Monday, July 13, a prisoner on death row was executed in Yasuj Central Prison. The identity of the prisoner has been established as Mohammad Hadi Dadian, around 25 years …

CHRI – Politically Motivated Executions in Iran Continue to Increase Despite serious questions regarding evidence of guilt, two Kurdish political prisoners, Diako Rasoulzadeh and Saber Sheikh-Abdollah, were executed in the Central Prison in Oroumiyeh, western Iran, on July 14, 2020. The two men were executed without prior notice to their families or legal representatives, an attorney for one of the …

Al-Monitor – President Donald Trump today joined the online chorus of Iranians warning the government against the imminent execution of three young men sentenced to death after participating in last year’s mass protests against rising gasoline prices. “Three people have been sentenced to death in Iran for participating in protests,” Trump tweeted in Farsi under the “don’t execute” hashtag. “Their …

PayvandNews — The Iranian Health Ministry announced 2,388 new cases of infection with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the past 24 hours, putting the total number of cases in the country at 264,561. Speaking at a daily press conference on Wednesday, Health Ministry Spokeswoman Sima Lari put the death toll from the coronavirus in Iran at 13,410, saying the disease …

Shabtabnews – According to FoxNews tens of thousands of Iranian dissidents and supporters of regime change are expected to gather for a virtual summit this week — as the U.S. continues to ramp up the pressure on the regime in Tehran over its terrorist activities. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/iranian-dissidents-summit-overthrow-as-us-pressure-tehran Furthermore, growing number of members of US congress have called on the Iranian regime …

Radiofarda – Imprisoned Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi says she has been suffering from symptoms similar to those of COVID-19 — the illness caused by the coronavirus — including coughs, fatigue, diarrhea, and loss of smell, and has complained that authorities have not released the results of her test. In a letter from prison published online on July 13, …