Human rights

A nature conservationist guard (ranger) was executed in Kerman city on Thursday for the charge of killing a hunter.  iranhr.net – According to the Iranian state-run news agency ISNA, on the morning of Thursday, November 28, a nature conservationist guard (ranger) was executed for shooting an illegal hunter to death ten years ago. His identity is not revealed. However, a …

iran-hrm – Reliable reports indicate detained Iranian protesters in several prisons across Iran are under torture to make false confessions against themselves. Around 420 protesters, detained in Tehran and Alborz province, have been transferred to Section 8 of Raja’i Shahr Prison, controlled by the Intelligence Ministry. Protesters were forced to take off their clothes and were then beaten for hours with …

radiofarda – Iran’s education minister has denied knowledge of security agents using a school as a detention place for protesters arrested during November’s unrest. A video circulating in social media shows security agents transferring detainees with shackled hands and feet from one vehicle to another at the courtyard of a school, said to be a girl’s school called Qods in …

radiofarda – Six more European countries announced Friday that they have joined Instex, the EU financial mechanism set up to facilitate trade with Iran despite U.S. sanctions. Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden will now be part of INSTEX which launched in January of this year. Germany, Britain and France kickstarted the mechanism in January under pressure from Iran …

The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) on Thursday, November 29, 2019, announced that its human rights award for 2019 goes to the four Iranian lawyers Abdolfattah Soltani, Amirsalar Davoudi, Mohammad Najafi and Nasrin Sotoudeh. Lawyers Nasrin Sotudeh, Mohammad Najafi and Amirsalar Davoudi are imprisoned in Iran solely for expressing their opinion and for defending their clients, …

An Iranian activist who was arrested on August 27 for demanding the resignation of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei says he is on hunger strike again. Speaking to Radio Farda from Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison Zartosht Ahmadi-Ragheb said he has been on hunger strike for 19 days in protest to the violation of his rights. Speaking to Radio Farda from …

Amnesty International has revised its estimated death toll from the unrest that rocked more than 100 Iranian towns and cities last week to 161, from an earlier toll of 143. “The confirmed number of protesters killed in Iran has risen to at least 161 protesters, according to credible reports received by Amnesty International,” it said in a brief statement sent …

Al-Arabia – At least 50 people were arrested in three major Iranian cities on Thursday for alleged links to the recent anti-government protests in the country, state media reported citing local authorities. Western Tehran’s police chief Mohsen Khancharli said that 30 of the “main” individuals behind the recent “riots and unrest in Western Tehran” have been arrested. The arrestees “engaged …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) –  The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) on Thursday, November 29, 2019, announced that its human rights award for 2019 goes to the four Iranian lawyers Abdolfattah Soltani, Amirsalar Davoudi, Mohammad Najafi and Nasrin Sotoudeh. Lawyers Nasrin Sotudeh, Mohammad Najafi and Amirsalar Davoudi are imprisoned in Iran solely for expressing their opinion …

Radio Farda- has interviewed the father of a young man whose son was killed by security forces on during recent anti-government protests in Iran. “For five years, I fought in the battlefield to push back the enemy from our homeland, and now they have killed my son merely for protesting an increase in gasoline prices”, says an Iran-Iraq war (1980-88), …