Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – In a speech prior to the Friday prayer sermons, Isfahan’s Chief Justice announced eight protestors arrested in the city had been convicted of “corruption on earth”. Iran Human Rights calls for an immediate response from the international community to the intensification of suppression and death penalty for protesters in Iran. Mahmoud Amiry-Moghaddam, director of the …

Shabtabnews – In a statement IOPHR called “on all international organisations to condemn all death sentences issued by the Iranian regime, especially for journalists, and to use all available means to put pressure on Iranian authorities to overturn this type of inhuman sentence.”  The IOPHR invited all journalists, news presenters, and staff of Persian-language satellite TV stations abroad to unanimously …

Iran-HRM – The wife of an Iranian political avtivist who has been imprisoned since last year said that her sick husband has been denied furlough, regular phone calls and medical treatment despite the Coronavirus outbreak in Vakilbad Prison in Mashhad. In a post on her Facebook page on June 29, Sedigheh Maliki-Fard said that for more than 325 days, her …

RFL/RE – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei assured a doctoral student in a 2016 meeting that there was nothing wrong with criticizing the country’s top official. “Speaking against me is neither [reprimandable] nor is it a crime, I’ve said it many times,” Khamenei said at the July 2, 2016, meeting with a group of handpicked students, including Mohammad Ali …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Imprisoned human rights activist, Atena Daemi, has been sentenced to a further two years in prison and 74 lashes for a fabricated new legal case against her. According to Iran Human Rights, Branch 24 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, headed by Judge Mohammadreza Amouzad, issued a new arbitrary conviction against Ms Daemi. She has been …

Radiofarda – I left Iran when I was seven, during the 1979 revolution. My first trip back was ten years later, full of the excitement of seeing family we had left behind, but also the trepidation of seeing the country and the life we had cherished cancelled out by the Islamist regime, and our family suffering. As an American teen …

Radiofarda – On day seventeen of the new round of strikes at Haft Tappeh agro-industrial complex on Wednesday, workers took to the streets in Shush and chanted slogans about poverty and hunger and against President Hassan Rouhani. Videos posted on social media show a large group of masked workers protesting and chanting “Unity, unity”, “Death to Rouhani”, “Workers will die …

HRW – On June 30, an Iranian appeals court in Tehran upheld a five-year prison sentence against Fariba Adelkhah, an Iranian-French anthropologist at the Sciences Po university in Paris who has been detained for over a year. Adelkhah’s case is one of the half-dozen known instances of Iranian dual nationals who are detained in Iran on vaguely defined national security charges. Authorities …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Arash Sadeghi, a civil rights activist and political prisoner who is serving a 19-year sentence in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, has now spent four years in prison despite deteriorating health and lack of access to medical care. According to Iran Human Rights, Arash Sadeghi who has been in prison for four years, is in a …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A Baloch man sentenced to “retribution” for premeditated murder has been executed in Iranshahr Prison. According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, on the morning of Tuesday, July 1, 2020, the death penalty of a Baloch man was carried out in Iranshahr Prison. The prisoner, whose identity has been verified as Vahid Mirbaloch-Zehi, had been imprisoned …