Human rights

Iran-HRM – The public flogging sentence for a man was carried out yesterday in the city of Ahvaz, the capital of southwestern Khuzestan province. A footage circulated on the Internet showed the man being punished with public lashes. https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1147222005961416705/pu/img/spDBCVrwI6Wmrv_N?format=jpg&name=small Simultaneously, his verdict is being read out loud which indicates that Branch 115 of the city’s Criminal Court had sentenced the …

Amnesty – Human rights lawyer Amirsalar Davoudi has been sentenced to 29 years and three months in prison and 111 lashes on charges stemming from his human rights work. He was interrogated in detention without a lawyer present and was convicted and sentenced in his absence. Under Iran’s sentencing guidelines, he is required to serve 15 years of this sentence. …

Iran Human Rights – A man hanged at the Iranian northeastern city of Birjand’s prison. According to IRIB News, a man was executed for murder charges at Birjand prison. Neither exact date of the execution, nor the identity of the prisoner, were revealed by the authorities.  According to the Iran Human Rights statistic department, at least 273 people were executed …

CHRI – An Appeals Court upheld 91-day prison sentences against 18 people who were arrested while peacefully protesting outside Evin Prison in Tehran but suspended most of the sentences for three years, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. Suspended sentences operate like bail conditions; defendants are expected to keep a low profile and not engage in …

Radiofarda – The Islamic Republic has executed at least 110 people between January 1 and June 30, 2019, in prisons or in public, Iran Human Rights Organization (IHRO) reports. The number shows a rise compared with the same period last year. Two juveniles were among the executed, IHRO says, adding, the executioners hanged them in the central prison in the …

Iran-HRM – In the footage uniformed officers can be seen standing around a police car as they attempt to detain a woman. She struggles against him as he drags her towards the back seat of the waiting police car, but he shoves her in before slamming the door. Other people on the scene, mostly other girls, are heard screaming and …

Radiozamaneh – Two Iranian journalists arrested related to coverage of labor protests in Iran, launched a hunger strike to protest their “unfair” detention. Amirhossein Mohammadifar, and his partner Sanaz Allahyari, members of the editorial board of Gaam Magazine have demanded to be released with other activists and journalists arrested in connection with protests in an industrial complex in the Southwest …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – At least two prisoners were hanged at Rajai-Shahr prison yesterday. According to IHR sources, on the early morning of Wednesday, July 3, at least two prisoners were hanged at the Iranian city of Karaj’s Rajai-Shahr prison. IHR sources have identified them as Mehdi Assadi and Hassan Baradaran. Iranian website Rokna has also reported about the executions without …

Radiozamaneh – Gholamhossein Esmaili, the Iranian Judiciary Spokesperson announced that the trial of the group of environmentalists who were charged with national security crimes will resume in upcoming weeks. “The espionage case is related to those who were spying from military sites undercover of environmental activists,” he told reporters. Iranian Judiciary has accused eight Iranian environmentalists of spying and they …

Amnesty – Iranian journalists Amir Amirgholi, Sanaz Alahyari and Amirhossein Mohammadifar have been arbitrarily detained since January 2019 without access to a lawyer. They are facing trial on spurious national security charges solely in connection with their reporting on workers’ rights protests in Khuzestan province, southern Iran. Amir Amirgholi and Sanaz Alahyari are being denied adequate medical care. All three …