Human rights

Iran-HRM – Three Iranian political prisoners face new charges that could keep them in prison for a longer term. Majid Assadi, Mohammad Bannazadeh Amirkhizi and Payam Shakiba imprisoned at Rajai Shahr Prison of Karaj were summoned to the Evin prison prosecutor’s office today and were told that new charges had been brought against them while they were in prison. The …

CHRI- A clip broadcast on Iranian state TV on July 16, 2020, claiming to show imprisoned human rights defender Narges Mohammadi  being tested for the coronavirus by what appears to be a medical professional on the previous day, was a manufactured attempt by the authorities in Iran to counter reports that she may have COVID-19, Mohammadi’s husband told the Center for Human Rights in Iran …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi continue to be held in detention without access to legal counsel or family visitation rights. In a meeting held with officials, professors, and representatives of Sharif University student organisations present, that appears as public forced confession, the two students described the pressure they had endured in detention. The alleged charges …

Shabtabnews – Following the US state departments report on Commission on Unalienable Rights and US Secretary State, Pompeo’s speech and video of the event, Persecuted Christians Coalition has through an Open Letter has requested US AG Barr to Designate the Chinese Communist Party as a Transnational Criminal Organisation. The reports can be seen via below links: https://www.state.gov/draft-report-of-the-commission-on-unalienable-rights/ https://www.state.gov/unalienable-rights-and-the-securing-of-freedom/ To sign …

Radiofarda – Reacting to more than 11 million tweets calling for an end to executions in Iran, the Islamic Republic Judiciary spokesman has said, “We are not obliged to listen to the counter-revolutionaries, aggressive opposition movements and the media empire.” Furthermore, Gholam Hossein Esmaeili dismissed the record-breaking and unprecedented online campaign as “produced by robots.” The hashtag, “No to Death …

Radiofarda – The Iranian Judiciary has announced on Monday July 20 that Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, a young man who was in jail on charges of “spying for the CIA and Mossad” has been executed. The news of the execution comes while the Judiciary appeared to have listened to calls by hundreds of thousands of people on social media for stopping …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – While the Islamic Republic’s judiciary claims that Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd was executed this morning, independent sources confirm that the prisoner accused of “espionage” was executed on Saturday morning and that he was repeatedly tortured in detention by Hezbollah forces in Lebanon and the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). According to Iran Human …

PayvandNews – Iranian health officials have tried to play down President Hassan Rohani’s estimate that as many as 25 million Iranians could have been infected with the coronavirus since the beginning of the outbreak. Rohani on July 18 cited a new study by the Health Ministry in offering the unprecedentedly high number of 25 million coronavirus cases. Iran’s population is …

Radiofarda – The Security Chief of Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan Province on Sunday said all of the individuals that he called “instigators of the protest rally in Behbahan on July 16” have been arrested. Speaking to the government news agency IRNA, Heydar Abbaszadeh said the protest rally was “a transgression”. He claimed that “a handful” of people in Behbahan had rallied …

Radiofarda – In what has been perceived as a victory for the social media campaign against capital punishment in Iran, the country’s Supreme Court has ruled to reconsider the death sentences issued for three young political activists. The trio who are in their twenties are Saeed Tamjidi, Mohammad Rajabi and Amirhossein Moradi, who were arrested for taking part in the …