Human rights

Al-Arabia – An Iranian man frustrated by the economic hardships in Iran was seen angrily criticizing the government while lying on the ground in front of a vehicle in a video circulating on social media. https://vid.alarabiya.net/2020/07/13/iran8857c117/iran8857c117___iran8857c117_video.mp4 “Tell the Supreme Leader to come here,” the man is heard saying in the video. “They have been taking what is ours for 40 …

RFL/RE – Iran’s judiciary says a a former defense ministry worker convicted of selling information to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been executed. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said on July 14 that Reza Asgari had been in touch with the CIA during his last years serving at the Defense Ministry and sold the agency information about Iran’s missile …

Amnesty – Imprisoned Iranian human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, who suffers from serious pre-existing health conditions, is showing suspected COVID-19 symptoms. The authorities are putting her health and life at risk by denying her health care and holding her in inhumane conditions. She is held solely for her peaceful human rights work and must be released immediately and unconditionally. View …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A spokesperson for the Judiciary disclosed that Reza Askari, a prisoner on death-row for “espionage” has been executed. 13 people have been executed the past 14 days, including three on so-called “security” charges. Mizan, the judiciary’s online news agency, quoted Gholamhossein Esmaili, a spokesperson for the judiciary as saying that a prisoner was executed in …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Two Kurdish political prisoners, Diako Rasoulzadeh and Saber Sheikh-Abdullah, were executed in Urmia Central Prison this morning. The two men were executed on charges of collaborating with the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan and “bombing the anniversary parade of the Iran-Iraq war”, which both men had consistently denied. According to Iran Human rights, the death …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – The sentence of a prisoner who was sentenced to retribution in kind (execution) on charges of “premeditated murder” was carried out in Kermanshah Central Prison (Dizel Abad). According to Iran Human Rights (IHR), a prisoner on death row was executed in Kermanshah Central Prison on the morning of Sunday, July 12th. The identity of this …

VOA – A retired Iranian British engineer detained in Iran since 2017 on spying charges that he denies has decided to speak up for the first time about alleged human rights abuses at the Tehran jail where he is imprisoned. Anoosheh Ashoori is the latest of several individuals whose detentions in Iran under harsh conditions have pushed them into becoming …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Iranian media confirm that a 51-year old man has been executed for drinking alcohol, asserting that his “repentance” had been rejected.  Noting this as one of the rare occasions that authorities have admitted to carrying out an execution for alcohol consumption in the last 40 years, the director of Iran Human Rights (IHR), Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, …

Radiofarda – Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has lambasted the Islamic Republic of Iran for interrogating the jailed director of the now-defunct dissident website AMAD News on TV. Interrogating suspects on TV and airing it amounts to “torture” RSF says. In a tweet on Saturday, July 11, RSF asserted that Mr. Rouhollah Zam has been in “solitary confinement” and his …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has denied Sunday suing five IRNA directors and journalists for publishing an interview with a senior Army general criticizing the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps, IRGC. IRNA is the Islamic Republic’s official news agency, run by President Hassan Rouhani’s administration. A pro-reformist journalist claimed Saturday that security agents confiscated some of the personal effects of the …