Thursday , 28 March 2024

Human rights

Execution of Ethnic Minorities in 2023

iranhr.net – This is an extract from the 2023 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran. To read the full report, please click here. ETHNIC MINORITIES As this report and previous annual reports demonstrate, ethnic minorities in Iran are overrepresented in death penalty statistics. Furthermore, with 25 executions per million inhabitants, Sistan and Baluchistan province had the second highest number of …

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Iranian Religious Scholar, Women’s Rights Activist Arrested, Husband Says

RFL/RE – Sedigheh Vasmaghi, a prominent Iranian religious scholar and political activist, has been arrested by plainclothes security agents, her husband, Mohammad Ebrahimzadeh, said on March 16. Vasmaghi was arrested at her home by four agents — three men and a woman – with what they said was a court order. They seized her laptop, medications, and her cane, her …

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VOA Exclusive: Iran Political Prisoners Attacked by Other Inmates

VOA – Inmates at Iran’s notorious Evin prison in Tehran allegedly assaulted a group of political prisoners on Friday as part of an ongoing practice reportedly orchestrated by prison officials, VOA’s Persian Service has learned.Assailants assaulted political prisoners with their fists on Friday, leading to bruises and other visible injuries, according to reports. The attackers also reportedly labeled the political …

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Foreign and Dual Nationals Executed in 2023

Iranhr.net – This is an extract from the 2023 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran. To read the full report, please click here. FOREIGN CITIZENS Afghans constitute the largest group of non-Iranian execution and death row cases in Iranian prisons. In 2021, no execution of Afghan nationals was recorded until September, when five men were executed in the space …

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Iran Continues Denial Of UN’s Crimes Against Humanity Charges

iranintl – Tehran is doubling down on its rejection of a UN report that found the regime committed crimes against humanity during its crackdown on nationwide protests. The Secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, Kazem Gharibabadi, accused Western countries of influencing the decisions of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council – and reiterated that the Council does not …

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Activist Bahareh Hedayat Diagnosed with Uterine Cancer in Prison

Iranwire – Iranian human rights activist and political prisoner Bahareh Hedayat revealed that she has been diagnosed with uterine cancer. Hedayat, who has been temporarily released from Evin prison for medical reasons, wrote on her Instagram account on March 15 that doctors discovered early-stage cancer cells in her uterus following a routine gynecological visit in November. “Last November, during a short break …

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VOA Exclusive: Leaked Iranian Government Documents Reveal Orders to Conceal Protester Killings

VOA – Documents apparently hacked from an Iranian government database and published exclusively by VOA’s Persian Service have shed new light on how Iran’s Islamist rulers covered up casualties from violent crackdowns on mostly peaceful mass protests and falsely labeled them as riots in recent years. VOA received the documents on March 6 from the hacking group Edalat-e Ali, which …

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USCIRF Calls for Accountability for Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity

Shabtabnews – USCIRF Calls for Accountability for Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) urges the U.S. government to support a United Nations (UN) Security Council referral to the International Criminal Court following the finding by a panel of UN-appointed experts that Iran’s crackdowns on protests against mandatory hijab and other religious freedom …

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Executions for Murder Charges in 2023

Iranwire – This is an extract from the 2023 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran. To read the full report, please click here. As murder is specifically punished under qisas laws, the IPC does not explicitly state that convicted murderers are subject to the death penalty but rather to qisas, or “retribution-in-kind”. The law effectively puts the responsibility for executions for murder …

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