Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Iran authorities have frozen the prominent human rights defender’s bank accounts. According to her family, none of the charges against Nasrin Sotoudeh were finance related. Iran Human Rights warns against the increasing pressure on human rights defenders and their families and calls for a response from Iranian civil society and the international community. Mahmood Amiry …

Shabtabnews – IRF Roundtable Congressional Working Group’s first call for signatures on a letter supporting the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.  Please see below for the IRF Roundtable Congressional Working Group’s first call for signatures on a letter supporting the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The Congressional Working Group asks for your signatures on a letter asking members of Congress to co-sponsor the Uyghur …

Radiofarda – In a Facebook post on Monday, prominent jailed lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has announced that Australian-British citizen Kylie Moore-Gilbert has been transferred from Tehran’s Evin Prison to the “Quarantine Ward” of the notorious Qarchak Prison as ‘punishment’. Dr. Moore-Gilbert, is a lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Melbourne. She was in Iran to take part in a …

Radiofarda – In an open letter, more than 500 Iranian film directors, authors, and legal experts have expressed concern over restrictions on the Imam Ali Society and demanded the immediate release of its founder and director. The Imam Ali’s Popular Students Relief Society, usually referred to as Imam Ali Society — was founded in 1999 as the first non-political student …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, which oversees censorship in the clergy-dominated country, has cnesured Etemad, a local pro-reform daily for an interview touching upon the sensitive issue of revolt against the regime. The foreboding is based on Etemad’s interview with a former Shiism scholar and human rights advocate, Emaduddin Baqi (Baghi.) In the interview published on …

CHRI —For her participation in a peaceful gathering to condemn the downing of the Ukrainian passenger plane by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in January 2020, the prominent women’s and student rights activist Bahareh Hedayat has been sentenced to four years and eight months in prison, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. “The authorities in Iran seem determined to …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Two prisoners sentenced to Qisas (retribution in-kind) for “premeditated murder” were executed in Urmia Central Prison this morning. According to Iran Human Rights, the two men’s sentences were carried out in Urmia Central Prison this morning. The identities of the two men have been established as Ali Abdi and Amirhossein Ghahrian. According to HRANA News …

Radiofarda – A priest from the minority Zoroastrian community who lived in the United States has been killed on a visit to Iran, state news agency IRNA reported Sunday. The website of the Amordad weekly paper on Zoroastrian affairs said the body of Arash Kasravi was found alongside those of his bodyguard and a nurse who also did domestic work. …

Iran-HRM – Ahmadreza Haeri, a Kurdish activist was flogged 74 times today at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. He surrendered himself on Saturday, July 25, to be punished by 74 lashes and start serving a six-month sentence.Ahmadreza Haeri has been transferred to the Greater Tehran Penitentiary. Tehran’s appeals court in February sentenced Haeri to prison and lashes on the charges of …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – At least one prisoner in Urmia Central Prison, who was sentenced to Qisas (retribution in-kind) for “premeditated murder”, was transferred to solitary confinement in preparation to carry out his sentence. Yesterday, two other prisoners sentenced to death on similar charges were also transferred to solitary confinement in Sanandaj Central Prison. According to Iran Human Rights, …