Human rights

radiofarda – A foreign-based Iranian human rights group has reported that twenty inmates in Iran’s Rajaee-Shahr prison near Tehran have been into solitary cells as a sign of their impending execution. Iran’s Human Rights Organization (IHRO) said Saturday that the inmates are on death row mainly for first-degree murder and asked world opinion and the international community not to be …

iran-hrm – According to the data collected from material published by the Iranian state-run press, human rights activists and their websites, or from private sources in touch with Iran Human rights Monitor,24 people were executed in Iran in January 2020. Nevertheless, the actual figures are definitely higher, as most executions in Iran are carried out secretly without anyone knowing except those who …

iran-hrm – The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Tabas in eastern Iran said Saturday, February 1 that a tourist was lashed 80 times for drinking alcohol on a tour. Amir Zare Hosseini who was cited by the state-run Tasnim news agency said the whole “legal procedure” and sentence implementation was carried out in less than five hours. The Tabas prosecutor …

radiofarda – Parvaneh Salahshouri, a reformist lawmaker, who on Saturday was summoned to court and charged with “spreading lies to affect public opinion and propaganda against the system”, said she was freed after taking a pledge to return if a subpoena is issued. While Salahshouri was still held by the court, the Revolutionary Guard-affiliated Fars News Agency in a tweet …

iranhr.net – A death-row prisoner was hanged at the Iranian city of Zanjan on Sunday, January 26. According to IHR sources, death-row prisoner Sobhan Karimi was hanged on January 26, 2020, at Zanjan Central Prison. Zanjan is a city and the capital of Zanjan Province which lies 300 km north-west of Tehran.  “Sobhan Karimi was sentenced to death around four …

radiofarda – An Appeals Court In Iran has upheld the prison sentences of seven teachers for participating in nationwide tachers’ protests and strikes in October and November 2018 in North Khorasan Province. According to a report distributed on social media by Council Of Teachers’ syndicates, a Revolutionary Court had sentenced the seven teachers from North Khorasan Province to a total …

Radiozmaneh – The Iranian female chess grandmaster Mitra Hejazipour who was sacked from the national team for boldly removing her headscarf (hijab) during the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship in Moscow, has said that hijab is “limitation” not “protection” as official regime propaganda claims. In an Instagram post on January 28, the 27-year old grandmaster said the hijab is …

Iran-HRM – Two murder convicts including an 81-year-old man were hanged in Chaharmahal Bakhtiari Province at dawn on Monday, January 27. The state-run ROKNA news agency reported the executions but it did not specify in which prison the executions took place. ROKNA cited Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province as sayig, “One of the prisoners with Kh. Gh. …

Radiozamaneh – According to several reports on social media, the National Identification Card in Iran is now only issued for the followers of one of the four recognized religions in Iran. The recent change in the options of applying for Iranian digital National ID Card (NID) only allows Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian citizens to register. This leaves Iranian minorities …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – On Tuesday, January 28, at least 10 death-row prisoners were transferred to the solitary confinement of Rajai-Shahr Prison for execution. According to IHR sources, on Tuesday, January 28, at least 10 prisoners were transferred to the solitary confinement of Rajai-Shahr prison in the Iranian city of Karaj.  Prisoners Behnam Gharadaghi, Nima Dashtyarpour, Mehdi Fotovvat, Sajjad …