Human rights

Iran-HRM – Iran Human Rights Monitor Monthly Report – April 2019 Introduction The issues of Iran human rights violation in April ranged from arbitrary killings and arrests, torture and inhuman treatment of prisoners, issuance of cruel sentences to violation of the rights of minorities, to violence against prisoners and stepping up pressure on political prisoners and executions, most horrible of which …

Iran-HRM – The sister of Kurdish political prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi who was executed in September 2018, was summoned by the Intelligence Department of Sanandaj and interrogated on April 29, 2019. Parvaneh Hossein Panahi has been apparently summoned because she was trying to find out the place of burial of her brother. Agents of the Intelligence Department have threatened her …

Iran-HRM – Charity Worker Akram Nasirian was arrested by unidentified security agents in Tehran for unknown reasons, on April 29, 2019, according to the “Voice of Iranian Women” charity organization. Ms. Akram Nasirian, who prior to her arrest had worked in flood-impacted areas of the country, disappeared on Monday, April 29. Looking for her, her family was informed by Tehran’s …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Spokesperson for Iranian Judiciary, Gholamhossein Esmaeili, said earlier today that the two juveniles who were executed on April 25, 2019, were not under 17 at the time of committing the crime. “Juveniles cannot commit these kinds of crimes,” he said in a press conference with the presence of Iranian media representatives. In response to his …

CHRI – Several workers’ rights activists including teachers who were arrested at rallies in Tehran on May 1 (International Labor Day) and May 2 (Iran’s Teachers’ Day) remain in detention without access to legal counsel, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. The protests, which also occurred in several other Iranian cities, were primarily against the government’s refusal to …

CHRI – Two months after being appointed by the supreme leader as Iran’s new chief justice, Ebrahim Raisi has appointed a staunch supporter of cruel and inhumane forms of Sharia (Islamic law) punishments as the new prosecutor general of Tehran. On April 29, 2019, state-funded media outlets reported that Ali Alghasi-Mehr (also spelled Al-Qasi-Mehr), the former chief justice of Fars Province, had been …

Radiozamaneh – Several Iranian teachers have been arrested in recent days. Activists have raised concerns about their conditions in prison. Teachers Protesting in Hamedan, May 2 On May 2, Iranian teachers gathered in front of local offices of the Education Ministry in several cities to protest against government policies. In the Iranian official calendar, May 2 is Iran’s National Teachers’ …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Two men were executed at prisons of the Iranian northwestern cities of Tabriz and Ardebil on April 30 and May 4, 2019, respectively. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, on the morning of April 30, a man was hanged at Tabriz central prison for “rape charges.” The unnamed man was 32, from the city …

CHRI – Marzieh Amiri, a reporter for the reformist Shargh newspaper, has been in Evin Prison’s Ward 209 under the control of the Intelligence Ministry since she was arrested while covering a Labor Day protest in Tehran on May 1, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. Amiri was detained after she went to a detention center …

CHRI – Political activist Siavash Rezaeian has been told to report to a prison in central Iran for criticizing former Judiciary Chief Sadegh Larijani, criticizing Iran’s compulsory hijab law, and condemning the state’s suppression of street protests. “Branch 28 of the Appeals Court in Mazandaran Province upheld a sentence of three months and one day in prison against me for the …