Friday , 29 March 2024

Human rights

Iran Denies Unrest After Death Of Poet

RFL/RE – An Iranian provincial official has accused foreign media of misrepresenting overnight funeral gatherings for a popular poet in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz as anti-government protests.Amateur videos posted on social media appeared to show dozens protesting in the streets of Ahvaz, the capital of the oil-rich province of Khuzestan, after the death of poet Hassan Heydari. ۱۹ …

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200 Film Personalities Condemn Censorship in Iran: “Our Profession Has Been Under Attack”

CHRI – More than 200 members of Iran’s film industry signed an open letter dated November 2, 2019, condemning state censorship and demanding  “freedom of expression and thought” in the Islamic Republic. Most of the signatories are based in Iran including Jafar Panahi (director), Nasser Taghvaie (director), Mohammad Rasoulof (director), Rakhshan Banietemad (director), Niki Karimi (actress) and Hamid Farrokhnejad (actor). Those based abroad include …

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Missing American’s Iran-Based Lawyer Reveals Previously Undisclosed Details in New Court Filing

CHRI – Complaint: Authorities Should Investigate Last Known Person Who Saw Levinson Before His Disappearance, American Citizen Dawud Salahuddin No Mention of Statement or Findings by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Intelligence Organization in Case Files The Iran-based lawyer representing the family of missing American former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who was last seen in the Iranian resort island …

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Ahwazi Arab Dissident Poet Suspiciously Dies in Iranian Hospital

Iran-HRM – A young popular dissident poet has died in hospital – sparking impromptu protests and vigils from hundreds of people in in Ahvaz, the capital southwestern Khuzestan province. Hassan Heydari, a young popular dissident poet, died in the city’s Shafa hospital under suspicious circumstances a month after his arrest by Iranian authorities. Hassan Heydari was initially arrested last year …

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Iranian Political Prisoner Begins Fresh Hunger Strike in Tehran Jail

Iran-HRM – Soheil Arabi, a political prisoner held in Evin Prison, has gone on hunger strike to demand treatment for Arash Sadeghi who has been denied medical access and hospital transfer by the authorities. He announced the hunger strike from Tehran’s Evin prison in a letter on November 7, saying that he had started a dry hunger strike since November 14 and …

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Iran: Man Hanged at Shiraz Prison

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A man was hanged at the central prison of Shiraz city last Monday. According to IHR sources, on the morning of Monday, November 4, prisoner Hossein Asgari was hanged at Shiraz Central Prison (also known as Adelabad prison).  A human rights group, Nafad Dar Ghafas, has reported that Hossein Asgari was arrested three years ago …

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Outspoken Political Prisoner In Iran Moved To Unknown Location

Radiofarda – The Islamic Republic authorities have moved an outspoken political prisoner, Farhad Maysami, from Tehran’s infamous Evin prison to an unknown location, reports say. The news initially appeared on a Telegram Channel that supports an imprisoned teacher, Mohammad Habibi. Two weeks ago, Evin authorities deprived Maysami and Habibi of receiving visitors after they protested their unbearable condition behind bars. …

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Philippines Grants Asylum to Iranian Beauty Queen

Radiofarda – The Philippine government has granted asylum to an Iranian former beauty queen and critic of the Iranian regime after she was stranded for four weeks in an airport, the Guardian reported on Friday, October 8. Police detained Bahareh Zare’ Bahari, on October 17, in Manila airport when she returned from Dubai. The former beauty queen was the subject of an …

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Civil Rights Activist Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee Arrested by Security Forces

Iran-HRM – Civil rights activist Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee was re-arrested Saturday November 9, by 10 male security forces in her Tehran home. The former political prisoner is the wife of cancer-stricken political prisoner Arash Sadeghi and was campaigning for his release and much needed medical treatment on Twitter. On June 18, 2019, the Revolutionary Court of Tehran examined a new case filed against Golrokh Ebrahimi …

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At the UN, states urged Iran to stop child execution, address women’s rights issues and other long-standing rights violations

IHR – UN member states raised alarm today at violence and discrimination against women, juvenile executions, and child marriage among other violations of Iran’s human rights obligations and called on Iran to take decisive action to uphold its human rights obligations. The situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran was under review this morning in Geneva, as the …

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