Human rights

Shabtabnews – Yesterday many Iranians and German citizens gathered outside the Iranian Embassy to protest against Iranian regime’s human rights violations against its citizens, in particular against the rights of religious minorities and prisoners of conscience. In the gathering the protesters who, originated from variety of groups (like the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR) and IGFM (the International …

Iran-HRM – University of Tehran anthropology student Leila Hosseinzadeh was arrested by intelligence forces on Sunday, July 28, and transferred to Evin Prison to serve her sentence. Tehran Province’s Appeals Court upheld a 2.5-year sentence and a two-year ban on traveling abroad against Leila Hosseinzadeh on June 24, 2019. Leila Hosseinzadeh was the secretary of Tehran University students’ central council …

Iran-HRM – Peyman Mirzazadeh, a Kurdish singer held at Urmia Prison in northwestern Iran, went on hunger strike on July 29, 2019 in protest to being sentenced to two years of prison and 100 lashes. His flogging sentence was carried out on Sunday. Peyman Mirzazadeh started his hunger strike after he was flogged with 100 lashes in the 4th Branch …

Radiozamaneh – Neda Naji, Atefeh Rangriz and Sepideh Gholian, Iranian labor activists imprisoned in Gharchak Women’s Prison were attacked and are in a dangerous situation according to social media statements by their family members. Neda Naji, Sepideh Gholian and Atefeh Rangriz, the Imprisoned Iranian Labor Activists in Gharchak Women’s Prison. Naji, Rangriz and Gholian have been attacked by an inmate …

Amnesty – Labour rights activist Sepideh Gholian has been on hunger strike since 23 July 2019 in protest at the ill-treatment of her family and dire conditions in Shahr-e Rey prison near Tehran. Her health has deteriorated sharply, leaving her too weak to walk. The trial of Sepideh Gholian and another labour rights activist, Esmail Bakhshi, has been scheduled for …

Amnesty – Recent statements by Mostafa Pour Mohammadi, advisor to Iran’s head of the judiciary and a former minister of justice, defending the mass extrajudicial executions of 1988 provide shocking confirmation of the authorities’ wilful flouting of international human rights law both at the time and now and a stark reminder of the sense of impunity that senior officials linked …

CHRI- Nikan Khosravi and Arash Ilkhani, members of the Iranian heavy metal band Confess, have left Iran to escape prosecution and prison for their art. “We took a risk and left the country so that we could continue our work,” Khosravi said in an interview with the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on July 27, 2019. On July …

Radiozamaneh – Shapour Ehsani Rad, of the board of directors of the Free Union of Iranian Workers (FUIW) has been arrested on Monday 29th of July at his workplace. Shapour Ehsani Rad Ehsani Rad who is also one of the founding members of Association of the Retired Workers of Social Security Organization has been working in his retirement as a janitor …

CHRI – “Sepideh is very weak and fragile and can not walk,” her father says following visit Hunger striking activist and freelance journalist Sepideh Qoliyan (also known as Gholian) lost consciousness in her cell on July 27, 2019, and was rushed to the clinic in Gharchak Prison, south of Tehran, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. “Sepideh fainted …

Radiofarda – Hundreds of retired teachers in Iran held rallies on Sunday, July 28, in front of the Islamic Republic’s Majles (parliament) and offices of Plan and Budget Organization (PBO), to demand adjustment pays. The enraged pensioners chanted, “Teachers Die, But Will Never Accept Abjection!”, “We Will Not Step Back, Until Receiving Our Bonuses!” Earlier on Saturday, the teachers had …