Human rights

Radiozamaneh – An Iranian journalist who was arrested during the May Day pro-labor protest in Tehran more than two months ago was rushed to the hospital from women’s ward of Evin prison while seizing with internal gastrointestinal issues. Photo: Social Media Marzieh Amiri was transferred to Taleghani Hospital from Evin Prison on 15 July, according to her sister Samira Amiri’s …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Civil activist and Kurdish language teacher Zahra Mohammadi, has been under arrest since May 23 without access to a lawyer. Zahra Mohammadi, 27, a member of Nojin Socio-Cultural Association, was arrested by security forces in her home in Sanandaj city on May 23, 2019. Almost two months after her arrest, Zahra is still detained in Sanandaj …

CHRI – Political prisoners Atena Daemi and Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi have been told they must serve an additional 3.7 years in prison for the charges of “insulting the supreme leader” and “propaganda against the state,” Daemi’s mother informed the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on July 15, 2019. Masoumeh Nemati said the two women are being punished for writing open letters …

CHRI – The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been denying Imprisoned Iranian-British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe all contact with the outside world since she was transferred to the psychiatric ward of a hospital in Tehran on July 15, 2019. In an interview with the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on July 19, Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s London-based husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said it was …

CHRI – After refusing to break his hunger strike, prisoner of conscience Hossein Sepanta was transferred to the Intelligence Ministry’s wing inside Adelabad Prison in Shiraz, Fars Province, on July 10, 2019, on orders of the facility’s director, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. “His cellmates have not heard from him since he was moved to …

Shabtabnews – The second annual meeting to advance religious freedom ended by statement from Sam Brownback, US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom on the importance of combating religious oppression on worldwide basis. Mr Brownback also mentioned the importance of number of global grassroots movements in support of religious movements and urged for positive actions by governments to support religious tolerance. …

HRANA – The 1980’s executions of the Iranian political prisoners were a series of state-sponsored execution of political prisoners across Iran. The unlawful mass execution is an undeniable truth and a cruel part of contemporary history in Iran. These executions took place between 1981-1988 nationwide and the victims had been buried in distorted areas. During the 1988 executions of the …

Iran-HRM – It would seem that the Iranian regime is stepping up pressure against political prisoners by using non-political violent inmates to attack them. There have been reports on some rights activists and political prisoners who were brutalized in prison during the past few days. Particularly, families of political prisoners are increasingly concerned about the safety of their loved ones …

HRW – Iran’s judiciary has just confirmed the arrest of Fariba Adelkhah, a French-Iranian anthropologist, in Tehran. Media sources had earlier reported that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Intelligence Organization arrested Adelkhah, a researcher at the Paris-based academic institute Sciences Po, at her home on June 7. She has been detained ever since. The accusations against her remain unclear, …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A man was hanged at the southern Iranian city of Mahshahr’s Central prison Wednesday. According to Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), a man was hanged at the southern Iranian city of Mahshahr’s Central prison on Wednesday, July 17. He reportedly killed his tenant with the assistance of his wife by a firearm. IRNA has not mentioned …