Human rights

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A man was hanged at the central prison of Borujerd city last Thursday. According to IHR sources, on the morning of November 5, prisoner Karam Sedghi was hanged at the central prison of Borujerd city, Lorestan province.  “He killed a person by a firearm four years ago. It was an honour killing case,” a well-informed …

Radiofarda – A United Nations panel of 33 member states reviewed Iran’s human rights record in Geneva on Friday and voicing criticism offered their recommendations to improve women’s and minority rights and stop capital punishment. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group has made similar recommendations in the past but the human rights situation in Iran has shown little or …

Radiofarda – “In an era of injustice in Iran, being behind bars, or not, makes no difference”, the renowned imprisoned Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh, has told French publication, L’Obs, previously known as Le Nouvel Observateur. L’obs has introduced Ms. Sotoudeh as the number one enemy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, adding she is a tiny, …

Iran-HRM – Officials in the northern city of Kelardasht in Mazandaran Province say 13 young men and women were arrested Thursday in a “mixed-gender night party”, according to the state-run Fars news agency. Fars known to be affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said six women and seven men were arrested in a night party where alcohol was being served …