Human rights

iranintl – Iran’s foreign ministry says there is “sufficient evidence” for the charge of espionage brought against a Swedish EU diplomat whose trial began in Tehran Saturday. Iran’s judiciary on Sunday accused Johan Niels Floderus, a 33-year-old Swedish citizen and EU diplomat of extensive intelligence collaboration with Israel against the Islamic Republic. The foreign ministry spokesman Naser Kanaani on Monday …

RFL/RE – Akbar Jafari, a professor at Tehran’s Sharif University, has resigned after being summoned and interrogated by security agents over his support for protests last year sparked by the September 2022 death of Mahsa Amini while in police custody. Ali Sharifi Zarchi, a faculty member at Sharif University who was previously dismissed for backing student demonstrators, confirmed the expulsion, noting that Jafari had …

Iranwire – Homa, 42, has experienced the hardships of refugees and asylum seekers in Türkiye, where she endured 10 years of exile without a work permit.  As she tried to reach Greece for a better life, she was raped by people in plainclothes while Greek border police were watching. Homa’s journey began when the Ministry of Intelligence raided her office …

Iranwire – Prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and other Iranian activists marked International Human Rights Day with renewed calls for more freedoms, equality and justice in the country, despite the Islamic Republic’s ongoing brutal crackdown on any form of dissent. Sotoudeh participated online in a December 10 gathering organized by a coalition of human rights activists in the German …

Iranwire – Jailed Iranian activist Mahmoud Mehrabi has developed kidney failure during his 10-months incarceration and is experiencing severe swelling throughout his body, IranWire has learned. Despite Mehrabi’s deteriorating health, his repeated requests for medical leave have been left unanswered, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.  He is being denied adequate medical attention in prison as well …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have postponed the execution of a victim of child marriage who had been sentenced to death for killing her husband, according to local human rights activists. Samira Sabzian was set to be hanged on December 13 in Qarchak prison, Tehran province, but the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) group said that the execution was postponed for a …

RFL/RE – The Tehran University disciplinary committee has reportedly initiated proceedings against at least 30 students from its Faculty of Social Sciences, according to information released by the country’s Student Guild Councils via their Telegram channel. The move comes in the wake of a significant Student Day protest rally on December 7, where the students in question are alleged to …

Iranwire – Branch 36 of the Tehran Court of Appeals has sentenced six Baha’is, from Iran’s largest religious minority community, to a total of over 30 years in prison.  The court overturned a lower court’s ruling on the charge of “propaganda against the system” for Iraj Shakor, Saba Sefidi, and Pedram Abhar, finding them not guilty of that charge. But …

VOA – A legal complaint called Monday for Swiss authorities to arrest Iran’s president during an expected visit and charge him with crimes against humanity connected to a 1988 purge of dissidents. The complaint asks Swiss federal public prosecutor Andreas Muller to ensure the arrest and prosecution of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi “over his participation in acts of genocide, torture, …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Child Bride Samira Sabzian who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for the murder of her husband, is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, 13th of December. Her two children visited her in prison for the first time to bid goodbye and she has now been transferred to solitary confinement in Qarchak Prison.  Iran Human Rights calls on …