Human rights

RFL/RE – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it is “alarmed about threats” to Iranian journalists based outside of the country who are working for Iranian-exile media outlets or the Persian-language services of international broadcasters. In an open letter released on January 22, the Paris-based press-freedom watchdog urged the leaders of the host countries — Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Sweden, …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A man was hanged at the Iranian city of Mashhad’s central prison on January 14, 2020.  According to Khorasan Daily, on the morning of Tuesday, January 14, a 50-year-old man was hanged at the Iranian city of Mashhad’s central prison, Khorasan Razavi province.  He was sentenced to death for murdering his cousin five years ago. The …

Radiofarda – The Islamic Republic judicial authorities have filed three charges against the son of a mid-ranking cleric, Mehdi Karroubi, a dissident leader placed under house arrest since 2011. “My brother, Hossein, is facing charges in two different legal cases for the recent letters our father wrote to the Islamic Republic Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and President Hassan Rouhani,” …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Soheil Arabi has been transferred from Evin Prison to the Great Tehran Penitentiary, 20 miles southeast of Tehran. Iran’s Intelligence Ministry is deliberately trying to place him in a perilous condition after he, along with 10 inmates, condemned the Iranian regime for downing a Ukrainian passenger plane by missiles. Prison authorities told Soheil Arabi that he …

Iran-HRM – Tehran’s Chief of Police announced the arrest of a teenager in Tehran for tearing down an image of Qassem Soleimani the now-dead commander of the Quds Force. Quoted by the state run ISNA news agency Hossein Rahimi said on Wednesday, “A person who insulted the image of Qassem Soleimani a few days ago and kicked a poster of …

CHRI – Since being jailed in the severely restrictive Ward-2A of Iran’s Evin Prison, British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert has struggled to obtain proper food and medication, and has been denied contact with the outside world including her family, she wrote in a series of letters obtained by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Echoing similar statements by other prisoners held there who …

HRANA – On January 8, 2020, the Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport, killing all 176 people onboard including Iranians, Canadians, Ukrainians, Swedes, Afghans, Germans, and British nationals. On January 11, 2020, thousands of people took to the streets across the country after General Staff of the Armed Forces of the …

Radiofarda – The U.S. Department of State has added the name of IRGC Brigadier General Hassan Shahvarpour to the list of Iranian officials sanctioned by the United States. Shahvarpour is the commander of the IRGC unit that massacred dozens of Iranian protesters in the southern city of Mahshahr in November. The United States announced in an official statement that the …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Before 1979, Iranian women had freedom. They want it back. If Iranian feminists who refuse to wear the hijab are brave, their Western counterparts, who wear pink hats, have wretchedly abandoned them. Why is Iranian barbarism so easily condoned in the West? Thirty years ago, the Berlin Wall was torn down by ordinary citizens who wanted to reclaim …

iranhr.net – A woman was hanged at Shiraz city’s central prison (Adel-Abad Prison) on January 14. She was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder charges around three years ago. According to Iran Human Rights (IHR) sources, prisoner Maliheh Haji-Hosseini (29) was hanged at Shiraz city’s central prison (Adel-Abad Prison) on January 14, 2020. She was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for …