Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Hamid Bakhshayesh and Massoud Seiri who are on death row for murder, have been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions in Ghezelhesar Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, at least two men were transferred to solitary confinement on 26 November in preparation for their executions in Ghezelhesar Prison in …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNG) – Reza Rastkhiz who was on death row for drug-related charges, was executed in Shiraz Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Shiraz Central Prison (Adel Abad) on 26 November. His identity has been established as 37-year-old Reza Rastkhiz. Informed sources told IHRNGO that Reza was arrested for …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNG) – Milad Nabati who is on death row for murder, was transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for his execution in Karaj Penitentiary. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, at least one man has been transferred to solitary confinement in Karaj Penitentiary (Central Prison) in preparation for his execution. His identity has been established …

iranintl – A political prisoner has called on Iran’s chief justice to investigate his revelation that dissident rapper Saman Seydi (Yasin) was subjected to mock execution. In an open letter addressed to Chief Justice Gholamreza Mohseni-Ejei Thursday, Ahmadreza Haeri has offered more details about the mock execution of a former fellow inmate Yasin, at Ward 240 of Tehran’s Evin Prison. …

Iranwire – Iranian prison authorities have denied the Baha’i prisoner Mahvash Shahriari Sabet access to phone calls after she published an open letter from inside Evin prison. “It is the ultimate injustice that my mother is being punished and fined for writing a diary about her 40 years of life, even in prison” her daughter Negar Sabet told IranWire.  In a letter published last …

Iranwire – Iranian-Canadian writer and civil activist Hamed Esmaeilion says Iran’s government has barred his mother from leaving the country in retaliation for his activism. Esmaeilion lost his daughter and wife in the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) over Tehran in January 2020. He served as president and spokesperson for the …

Iranwire – An Iranian Revolutionary Court has sentenced Shohreh Salekian, a Baha’i citizen living in Mashhad, to three years and eight months in prison.  Salekian was charged with “membership in a group with the aim of disrupting national security” and “propaganda against the system.”  She was sentenced to three years in prison for the first charge and eight months in …

Iranwire – Iranian border forces have shot and killed a 17-year-old Kurdish porter near the Hengezhal border crossing with Iraq in western Kurdistan province, a human rights organization reported. The teenager, identified as Farooq Alizadeh from the city of Sardasht in West Azerbaijan province, was shot on the morning of November 26, according to Hengaw human rights website.  The incidents …

Iranwire – Iranian political prisoner Zohreh Sarv has been on a hunger strike for four days in protest at the authorities denying adequate medical care. In a letter sent from Tehran’s Evin prison, Sarv says she will consume only “water, sugar and salt,” and holds the judiciary responsible for any consequences to her health and life that may result from …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Afsaneh Zohrevand, the mother of executed protester Milad Zohrevand was detained for hours for “wailing” at his burial. His body was buried in a Christian cemetery by authorities two days after secret execution. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, protester Milad Zohrevand’s body was laid to rest in a Christian (Armenian) cemetery in Hamedan …