Human rights

Iran-HRM – Iranian authorities have executed at least 11 prisoners in the past two days in Raja’i Shahr, Kermanshah, Sanandaj, Dastgerd prisons. Seven prisoners were hanged On Wednesday, April 22, in Raja’i Shahr Prison in Karaj, near the capital Tehran.All of them were taken to solitary confinement on Sunday. Six of the victims are identified as, Mohsen Rezaian, Alireza Aryaei, …

Iran Human Rights (IHR); – IHR calls for Iran to immediately release its imprisoned women leaders in an open letter co-signed by 20 other international and Iranian human rights organizations as well as the Vice President of the European Parliament. Here are the letter, names of Iranian female prisoners of conscience, and the signatories: In this COVID-19 pandemic, Iran is suffering …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Two students from Tehran’s Sharif University of Technology and former national and international Olympiad winners were beaten up and detained by Revolutionary Guards on April 10.  On 10 April 2020, the Revolutionary Guards arrested Ali Younesi, a second-year Computer Engineering student, and Amir Hossein Moradi, second-year Physics student. The agents confiscated their personal belongings such …

Shabtabnews – Yesterday in a virtual meeting attended by various speakers including – Ambassador Sam Brownback , the US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom , the role of Iranian regime and Chinese goverment in spreading the Covid-19 emidemic was discussed. During this meeting which was attended by Dr Hamid Gharagozloo the representative of IOPHR (International organisation for preservation of human rights), made …

Radiofarda – The Islamic Republic’s Judiciary spokesman has dismissed as “politically motivated” a United Nations human rights report that all political prisoners must be granted furloughs during the coronavirus outbreak. Iran’s performance in dealing with the issue — compared with that of the West — has been “exemplary”, Gholam Hossein Esmaili told reporters on Tuesday, April 21. Giving the local …

Radiofarda – Iran’s media freedom rank is 173 out of the 180 countries in the latest press freedom index of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released on Tuesday. The Islamic Republic’s rank has dropped three points from 170 in 2019. The RSF report says Iran has been one of the world’s most repressive countries for journalists for the past 40 years with …

Iran-HRM – Increased physical and mental pressure on prisoners compelled two inmates in the prisons of Urmia and Qezelhessar in Karaj to take their own lives. Sunday, April 19, 2020, inmate Majid Keshvari committed suicide in Qezelhesar Prison, in Karaj, west of Tehran. Mr. Keshvari took his own life after he heard that prison guards were going to take him for a second …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Imprisoned human rights defender, Narges Mohammadi, has been threatened to death by inmates with criminal background in Zanjan prison. She was exiled from Tehran’s Evin prison to Zanjan prison, 300 kilometres far from the capital, over raising her voice in jail against killing hundreds of protesters in Iran in November 2019. Narges Mohammadi who was arrested …

Amnesty – The execution of Shayan Saeedpour today in Iran for a crime committed as a child is further proof of the authorities’ total disregard for the right to life, said Amnesty International. Iranian officials executed Shayan Saeedpour, 21, this morning in the central prison in Saqez, Kurdistan province. A criminal court in Kurdistan province had sentenced him to death …

IHR- UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, and UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard, condemned the execution of Juvenile offender Shayan Saeedpoour by the Islamic Republic of Iran earlier today.  Full text here: GENEVA (21 April 2020) – Two UN human rights experts today expressed their dismay that …