Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – At least six death-row prisoners were transferred to the solitary confinement of Rajai-Shahr prison for execution. According to IHR sources, the prisoners were transferred on Saturday. Executions are usually carried out on Wednesday in Rajai Shahr, and prisoners are transferred to solitary confinement a couple of days prior to that. All are sentenced to death …

Iran-HRM – On the eve of the five-day annual gatherings of the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK in Ashraf 3 in Albania, the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has summoned or arrested scores of families and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Tehran and other cities. In Tehran, Sediqeh Moradi, Mehdi Khavas, Hassan Atar, Valiyollah Gholam-Nejad …

CHRI – Imprisoned journalists Amirhossein Mohammadifar and Sanaz Allahyari, a married couple, have been on a wet hunger strike since July 4, 2019, in Tehran’s Evin Prison to convince the authorities to allow them to post bail. “It has been nearly six months since my wife and I were put in temporary detention,” Mohammadifar, the editor-in-chief of the Gam independent …

Radiofarda – Global rights defender Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has expressed concern over three imprisoned Iranian journalists who have been on hunger strike for weeks. The Paris-based international organization says, photojournalist and blogger, Soheil Arabi has been on hunger strike for more than twenty days, while two reporters working for a student magazine, Ms. Sanaz Allahyari and Amir Hossein Mohammadifar, …

Radiofarda – Iran may have stood down from its hardline stance that conditioned negotiations with the United States by Washington’s return to the nuclear deal it left in May 2018, before imposing hard sanctions on Tehran. Although President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Zarif have repeatedly said that Washington’s return to the nuclear deal, also called the Joint Comprehensive Plan …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A man hanged at Zanjan prison for murder charges last Monday. According to IHR sources, on the morning of Monday, July 8, a man was hanged at Zanjan prison. He is identified by IHR sources as Mostafa Shiri, 42, a resident of the Iranian city of Marand. Mr Shiri was sentenced to death for murder …

Radiofarda – The Iranian Human Rights News Agency, HRANA, reported on Wednesday July 10 that outspoken political activist Mohammad Nourizad, has been jailed. Nourizad was one of the signatories of a statement by 14 Iranian activists who called on Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to resign in order to end the country’s political deadlock. Nourizad had said on Monday …

Iran-HRM – Nine Baha’is, members of a religious minority that has experienced decades of discrimination in Iran received lengthy prison sentences for their faith. The Birjad court in Southern Khorasan province sentenced each of the Baha’i men and women to six years of prison and confiscated money raised by the Baha’i community in the city. Iran’s Human Rights Activist News …

HRANA – Raheleh Ahmadi, Saba Kord Afshari’s mother, was arrested by security forces on July 9, 2019. According to their family, she is arrested to put pressure on her detained daughter who has denied having a forced video confessions in the past few weeks. Ahmadi was taken to a court where her accusations were explained as “propaganda against the state”, …

CHRI – UN Press Release, GENEVA (10 July 2019) – UN human rights experts today expressed serious concern that Iran continues to deny appropriate healthcare to detainees, despite repeated calls. “Over several months we have communicated to the Iranian government our deep concerns about the physical and mental integrity of detainees,” the experts said.  “Despite Government assurances, we are frustrated to …