Human rights

Shabtabnews – IOPHR sent an open letter to Mike Pompeo, pointing to the Iranian regime’s incapacity to the deal with Coronavirus , and thus asking US and International help to deal with the epidemic in Iran . In this letter IOPHR draws attention “to the critical situation facing Iranian citizens, who are now facing rampant disease and an intentional disregard …

Radiofrada – A United Nations human rights official on Friday voiced concern over prisoners after reports of unrest in facilities prompted by worries over a coronavirus outbreak in countries including Iran, one of the worst-hit in the world. Iranian media have reported unrest in several prisons, and a mass escape from a facility in the west of the country, despite …

Iran-HRM – Juvenile death row convict, Danial Zeinol-Abedini, was killed under torture in a western Iran prison before being executed. In the wake of riots in Mahabad Prison on Sunday, March 29, 2020, juvenile death row convict Danial Zeinol-Abedini and several other prisoners accused of instigating the riots were transferred to solitary confinement.Danial Zeinol-Abedini was brutalized by Mahabad Prison guards and banished …

CHRI – As inmates in Iran continue to be killed or injured in “prison disturbances” amid the country’s devastating COVID-19 outbreak, two defense attorneys in Tehran have joined the growing chorus of domestic and international voices that has been calling on Iranian authorities to release all eligible prisoners before it’s too late. The following statement was written by human rights lawyers Arash Keykhosravi and Saeid Dehghan, who both represented the family of Kavous Seyed-Emami, …

Iran-HRM – An Iranian appeals court has has sentences four activists to a total of 40 years and six months in prison for calling for the resignation of the country’s Supreme Leader. They have been banned from leaving the country for two years and face a two-year exile. According to the sentence, Hashem Khastar, a prominent teachers’ rights activist in …

 Iran-HRM – A prison riot in two prisons in Ahvaz on Monday left 18 prisoners dead, human rights activists say, as detainees protested sanitary conditions and being denied furlough amid coronavirus outbreak. Local reports indicate 18 inmates in Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz, the capital of southwest Khuzestan province, were killed March 30 when security forces opened direct fire at prisoners …

RFL/RE – Kamal Foroughi, an 80-year-old British-Iranian businessman who was arrested in Iran nine years ago, has returned to Britain, the U.K. Foreign Office said. Foroughi was working as a business consultant when he was arrested in 2011 and convicted of espionage and possessing alcohol.“I am pleased and very relieved that Kamal Foroughi has been able to return to the …

Radiofarda – Reports received by Radio Farda indicate during rebellions in two prisons in the city of Ahvaz, southwestern Iran, at least three inmates were killed and several others injured. The first disturbance took place in Sepidar prison on Monday, March 30, which led to the death of three prisoners. This apparently led to a riot in Shiban prison on …

Al-Arabia – The recent revelation that intelligence officers at Iran’s consulate in Turkey instigated the killing of Iranian dissident Masoud Molavi Vardanjani last November is just the latest example of a long-standing foreign policy practice of the Islamic Republic regime, experts say. Turkish officials told Reuters that two intelligence officers at Iran’s consulate in Istanbul were behind the assassination last November of …

Radiofarda – Iranian journalists have protested to the decision taken by a committee of Iran’s Coronavirus Combat Taskforce which on Monday banned all print media. The ban will be in place as long as coronavirus-related restrictions are in effect. Continuation of publication of newspapers and other print media requires journalists, print workers and distribution agents to continue their activities which …