Human rights

Iran-HRM – Iran has made mass arrests of supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and former political prisoners in recent days, simultaneous with the anniversary of the 1979 revolution and its upcoming parliamentary election. The Iranian regime is afraid of the resurgence of Iran protests and increasing activities of MEK supporters. In a statement on these mass …

RFL/RE – A lawyer for an Iranian-French academic detained in Iran for eight months says his client has ended a six-week hunger strike. Fariba Adelkhah “responded to a written request from civil and political activists and ended her hunger strike at midday,” the lawyer, Said Dehghan, told the AFP news agency on February 12.Dehghan said Adelkhah began her hunger strike on …

CHRI – The intelligence arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is summoning journalists, raiding their homes and confiscating their electronic devices in a renewed campaign to silence criticism of state policies ahead of Iran’s parliamentary elections later this month. “Muzzling journalists, detaining activists, and disqualifying parliamentary candidates will not silence dissent in Iran, as the recent protests have shown,” …

A video circulating on social media has led to the closure of three upscale restaurants in Tehran, a local court announced. The video shows men and women in a restaurant dancing in violation of the Islamic Republic law that bans people from dancing in public. The managers of the three restaurants are behind bars for allowing their customers to hold …

Iran-HRM – The General Secretary of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association, Mohammad Taqi Fallahian was arrested at home by intelligence forces of the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Saturday, February 8, 2020. The news was announced in a statement by the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association. The Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association (ITTA)protested this method of bringing double pressure on teachers and …

CHRI – Detainees held in Iran since the November 2019 street protests—including juveniles—are being beaten, forced to make self-incriminating statements and held in inhumane incarceration conditions, and their families are not being informed of their whereabouts and condition, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned from first-hand accounts in Iran. CHRI calls upon the Iranian authorities to …

Radiofarda – Young Iranian civil rights activist, Ms. Sepideh Qolyan (Gholian), has said she was released on bail February 9 after being charged with “anti-Islamic Republic regime propaganda” and “disseminating fake news” in the third lawsuit filed against her. The twenty-four-year-old Qolyan elaborated on her Twitter account that the prosecutor charged her with “propaganda against the regime” for publishing news …

iran-hrm – Iranian protesters arrested during the protests in November 2019 are being tried and handed down heavy jail sentences while the fate of thousands of others continue to remain unknown. One of such protesters is Milad Arsanjani, 21. He was sentenced to five years in prison for participating in Iran protests in November 2019 against sudden three-fold increase in …

iranhumanrights – In a letter from Evin Prison in Tehran where he has been held since October 2015, Iranian American businessman Siamak Namazi asked Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi why his requests for furlough have been repeatedly denied while those around him continue to be allowed to go on temporary leave. “For the past four years, while enduring punishment for a …

radiofarda – A cleric who promotes Islamic medicine and campaigns against Western medicine has claimed that a court sentenced three doctors to lashing, after he complained about them. The cleric, Abbas Tabrizian who created outrage in January after publicly burning Harrison’s Manual of Medicine, wrote on his social media account that he lodged a complaint of being insulted by the …