Human rights

Radiozamaneh – Richard Ratcliffe has started a hunger strike outside the Iranian Embassy in London in solidarity with his striking wife, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has spent more than a 1000 day in an Iranian prison. Richard Ratcliffe outside the Iranian embassy in London, where he is maintaining a hunger strike and vigil. Ratcliffe started his hunger strike on Saturday 15 …

Amnesty – Danial Zeinolabedini, an 18-year-old imprisoned in Mahabad prison, West Azerbaijan province, is at risk of execution. He was sentenced to death in June 2018 after an unfair trial in which he was convicted of a murder that took place when he was 17 years old. His execution would be a grave violation of international law. View report in …

Iran Human Rights – At least five death-row prisoners were transferred to the solitary confinement of Rajai-Shahr Prison on Sunday. Some sources say the real number of the transferred prisoners is two times more. According to IHR sources, on the morning of Sunday, June 16, at least five prisoners were transferred to the solitary confinement of Rajai-Shahr prison in the …

CHRI – The Iranian Parliament has approved a bill that if enacted into law would allow courts to impose severe punishments including the death penalty against individuals convicted of acid attacks. But activists and some reformist members of Parliament argue that the government should be focused on restricting the availability of the corrosive substances that are being used to disfigure …

Al-Monitor – When Pooyeh Nourian tweeted her outrage with a Tehran cab driver she had ordered through a popular ride-hailing app, she probably had no idea that her tweets would open a Pandora’s box on Iran’s controversial hijab rules. Minutes into embarking on the trip from Tehran’s affluent north, the young Iranian woman was criticized by the driver over her failure to observe proper hijab. In …

Radiofarda – Efforts by hijab enforcers in Iran to oblige women to observe a strict dress code have led to more incidents in public, as citizens resent strangers admonishing them about their appearance. Islamic Republic’s religious laws allow any citizen to stop another person who is not observing the proper dress code. But this vigilante activism almost always impacts younger …

Iran-HRM – No news is available on the fate of Maysam Esmail Zehi, a young man from Zahedan, who was arrested 14 days ago by security forces and taken to an unknown location. Maysam Esmail Zehi was arrested on Saturday, June 1, 2019, a few days after an angry protest gathering outside the Governor’s Office in Zahedan to protest the …

Iran-HRM -Twenty days after getting arrested, the fate of Kurdish civil activist Zahra Mohammadi remains unknown. Zahra Mohammadi, 28, was arrested on May 23, 2019, by agents of the Intelligence Department of Sanandaj, capital of the Iranian Kurdistan Province. They raided her residence in Nayser township in Sanandaj. Ms. Mohammadi’s family managed to visit her on May 30, but have …

RFL/RE – A British-Iranian charity worker who is being held at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison on sedition charges has begun another hunger strike in protest at her detention.Forty-year-old Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was refusing food as she marked her daughter’s fifth birthday, her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said in a statement on June 15.“She had informed the judiciary that she has begun a …

RFL/RE – Iranians have found a new platform to fuel fresh debate over one of their society’s most sensitive topics: the so-called hijab laws that oblige women to cover their bodies and hair in conservative Islamic fashion.Reactions have come fast and furious since a Tehrani driver for the country’s largest Uber-like ride-sharing enterprise, Snapp, refused to drive a woman to …