Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A man hanged at Gorgan prison for murder charges last Sunday. According to HRANA, on the early morning of June 9, Hashem Amiri, 47, was executed at the northern Iranian city of Gorgan’s prison. He was a father of three kids. “Hashem Amiri was a worker at a shopping centre four years ago. At that …

aljazeera – After a driver asked a passenger to put on her headscarf, some Iranians began boycotting popular ride-hailing app Snapp.by Saeed Jalili 12 Jun 2019 Iran’s law requires women to cover their hair and wear loose garment to hide their body and skin [Majid Saeedi/Getty Images] A move to boycott a popular Iranian ride-hailing application has gained momentumamong social …

Iran-HRM – Five women activists are held in prison under deplorable conditions for demanding their own and their people’s human rights. Three women activists were arrested during an International Workers Day protest demonstration on May 1, 2019, in Tehran across from the Iranian parliament. Marzieh Amiri, Neda Naji, and Atefeh Rangriz were among 15 activists who were brutalized and arrested …

Amnesty – More than a million people in more than 200 countries and territories across the globe have come together to express their outrage at the sentencing of prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh to 38 years and six months in prison and 148 lashes after two grossly unfair trials, Amnesty International announced today, as signatures demanding her release …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner who allegedly killed two policemen, was executed at the Iranian city of Ardabil’s prison. According to the Iranian judiciary’s news website, Mizan Online, the unnamed prisoner was executed on Wednesday, June 12. One of the judiciary authorities told Mizan, “while police ordered him to stop his vehicle, he was smuggling antiques and cultural …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Three prisoners were hanged this morning and one prisoner was hanged last Monday at Rajai-Shahr prison. According to IHR sources, on the morning of Wednesday, June 12, three prisoners were executed at Rajai-Shahr prison in the Iranian city of Karaj. All of them were sentenced to death on the charge of “corruption on earth and …

AL-Arabia – Lebanese IT expert Nizar Zakka, who arrived in Beirut on Tuesday after being detained in Iran since 2015, told Al Arabiya that he was “subjected to all kinds of torture from the Iranians” when he was first arrested. Zakka also said that it was the Revolutionary Guards that interrogated him, not the Iranian intelligence. “My next mission is …

RFL/RE – Iranian lawmaker Parvaneh Salahshuri, a sociologist, says that when she decided to apply for one of a handful of influential posts in parliament, she realized she didn’t have a chance. The reason, as the 55-year-old reformist sees it, is that she’s a woman.“The lawmakers saw it as a man’s position and they wouldn’t accept the presence of a …

CHRI – Political prisoner Alireza Shirmohammadali was stabbed to death in the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary (GTCP) after he was unlawfully kept in a ward that holds inmates convicted of dangerous crimes, his lawyer informed the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). “This was a preventable death and resulted from gross negligence on the part of the authorities,” said …

CHRI – Imprisoned journalist Sanaz Allahyari has been denied hospitalization despite suffering from worsening health problems in Tehran’s Evin Prison, a source close to her family told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on June 10, 2019. “Sanaz’s condition is very worrying,” said the source who also told CHRI that her family was not allowed to submit a letter …