Human rights

Radiofarda – The United Nation has since 2011 appointed three special rapporteurs for Iran to monitor and report on the human rights situation in the country. They have never been allowed to visit the Iran while according to their annual reports, arbitrary arrests, torture and daily executions have significantly increased since then. Iran’s regime is notorious for public executions as …

Iran-HRM – The commander of state security forces in southwestern Abadan city said that 18 businesses have been sealed-off for not observing Islamic rituals and law. The state-run IRNA news agency cited Colonel Seyyed Mohsen Taghizadeh as saying that the monitoring public places police of Abadan is going to implement a plan to ramp up control of businesses. The plan …

PayvandNews – Activists, cultural figures, and other prominent Iranians have mourned the death of Azam Taleghani, a women’s rights activist who fought repeatedly, and unsuccessfully, to become Iran’s female presidential candidate. Azam Taleghani Dozens of prominent Iranians attended funeral ceremonies on November 1 for Taleghani, who was buried at Tehran’s Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, alongside her relatives. Taleghani, 76, died on October 30 …

RadioFarda – The secretary of a religious watchdog office in Iran has admitted that since the establishment of the Islamic Republic four decades ago (1979), the authorities have executed 15,000 people for drug-related crimes. The mid-ranking clergy, Jalil Mohebbi, presented the data in a session attended by the head of the Islamic Republic Judiciary. According to the Islamic Revolution Guards …

Iran-HRM – Iranian authorities executed a prisoner on Thursday, October 31 in public in the city of Arak, southwest of the capital Tehran, the state-run media reported. The report did not mention the prisoners’ name but said he had been sentenced to death for killing a security agent. On the same day another prisoner was hanged in the Central Prison …

Iran-HRM – Imprisoned teachers’ rights activist Mohammad Habibi has been denied family visits in Iran’s Evin Prison where he has been held on trumped-up national security charges since June 2018. On October 30, the family of Mohammad Habibi were not allowed to visit him, and they were told that Habibi has been denied family visits since October 21 to November 12. It …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A man was hanged in public in the Iranian central city of Khomein Thursday. At least one child is seen in the published photos watching the scene.  According to IRIB News, on the morning of Thursday, October 31, a man was executed in public in the Iranian central city of Khomein. He was sentenced to qisas …

Iran-HRM – The month of October was marked by Iran’s crackdown on freedom of expression. Security forces in the southwestern town of Lordegan made widespread arrests following large protests over the HIV infection of villagers by a local health clinic. According to locals, security forces used videos of the protests to identify and arrest protesters.  Protests erupted in Charmahal Bakhtiari province after …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A Pakistani citizen who was arrested in Iran around 20 months ago with a murder charge, has been sentenced to death. He denies the accusations. According to IHR sources, a court in the Iranian city of Mashhad issued the death sentence for a Pakistani citizen on September 24, 2019. His name is revealed by the …

Radiofarda – A prominent labor activist and leader has been released today from prison in Iran on bail after ten months of incarceration following strikes and protests last year in the factory where he worked. Esmail Bakhshi was the representative of workers at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Mill in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan, where workers began strikes last November …