Human rights

CHRI – Golnar Samsami was on her way home after work when she was struck in the head by a bullet on Vali Asr St. in the city of Shahriar, Tehran Province, on November 17, 2019, her family member told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). According to the source who spoke on the condition of anonymity for …

Iran-HRM – More details are leaking out every day on the slaughter of defenseless people and crimes against humanity committed during Iran protests in November. December 17, 2019FacebookTwitterEmail Recent news and reports from Iran indicate that intelligence agents and security forces fired coup de graces to the wounded protesters taken to Fatemeh Zahra Hospital in Robat Karim, Tehran. An eye-witness …

Shabtabnews – Ambassador Sam Brownback , the US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom , yesterday expressed his grave concerns in regards to the health and condition of the Gonabadi Sufi’s spiritual leader, Dr Noor Ali Tabandeh and hundreds of Sufi prisoners held in Iranian jails purely because of their faith. Concerned for health of #Gonabadi #Sufi leader Dr. Noor Ali …

Radiofarda – A member of Iran’s parliament has said in an Interview on Tuesday that Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli’s unscrupulous confession that protesters were shot in the head and “some were shot in the leg too” during the November protests, was shocking to lawmakers. In the interview with Emtedad website on Monday Mahmoud Sadeghi said that the shockingly nonchalant remark …

Radiofarda – Iran social media users in the past few days have shared shocking images of bodies recovered from dams, reservoirs and rivers that allegedly belong to November protesters more than a month after the deadliest unrest in the history of the Islamic Republic. The images show swollen bodies, many of them with hands tied. Most of the mind-boggling images …

VOA – Amnesty International says its documented death toll from Iran’s recent anti-government protests will rise again from the group’s latest report that at least 304 demonstrators were killed by security forces. “That is not a final figure by any means,” said Amnesty’s Middle East research director Philip Luther in a VOA Persian interview on Monday. Hours earlier, the London-based rights …

CHRI — A coalition of international human rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran has called on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to launch an independent inquiry and demand accountability for the Iranian government’s repression of last month’s street protests, which resulted in at least 304 deaths. Among the thousands who were detained since the protests …

CHRI – Iranian authorities have refused to provide information about the location or condition of student activist Saha Mortezaei since she was arrested a month ago at the University of Tehran’s Fatemieh dormitory on November 17, 2019. Her family is particularly worried because university officials had previously threatened to subject the young woman to electric shock therapy at a psychiatric facility to punish her …

Amnesty – As part of a violent and deadly crackdown, Iran’s authorities have been arbitrarily arresting thousands of protesters who are now at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. Act now and call for those arbitrarily arrested to be released. In November 2019, nationwide protests were sparked in Iran after the government announced a huge rise in petrol prices. Security …

 Amnesty – Thousands arrested including children as young as 15 Detainees subjected to enforced disappearance and torture At least 304 people killed in protests according to credible sources Iran’s authorities are carrying out a vicious crackdown following the outbreak of nationwide protests on 15 November, arresting thousands of protesters as well as journalists, human rights defenders and students to stop …