Human rights

Iran-HRM – After four months of detention, a family from Iran’s Ahwazi Arab ethnic minority have been held in limbo. Hattab Zaheri Sari and his son and daughter, Amin an Ameneh, were among hundreds of people in Khuzestan province who were arrested during a sweeping crackdown against the Ahwazi Arab ethnic minority in November 2018. Hattab Zaheri Sari and his …

CJRI – Gender equality advocate Rezvaneh Mohammadi was tried in absentia in Tehran under the unusual charge of “assembly and collusion against national security by seeking to normalize homosexual relations.” Mohammadi did not attend her trial session held on February 17, 2019, at Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, and presiding Judge Mohammad Moghiseh refused to allow her lawyer …

Radiofarda – The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has extended the mandate of its special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran for another year. During a session on March 22, the representatives of 22 governments voted for and seven (Afghanistan, China, Cuba, Eritrea, India, Iraq, and Pakistan) voted against a resolution for the extension of Javaid Rehman’s …

Iran-HRM – As people across Iran are celebrating the Persian New Year, Nowruz, heavy rains and flooding have been pounding Golestan province in northern Iran since Sunday, uprooting trees and causing serious damage to the province’s facilities and power lines. Heavy floods hit vast regions of Golestan province, northern Iran. Locals providing help for each other when Iranian officials refuse …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A part of the 11th Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran, by IHR, deals with drug-related executions in the country. READ THE FULL REPORT HERE (pdf)  According to reports gathered by IHR, at least 24 people were executed for drug offences in 2018. This represents a 90% reduction compared to 2017, and is …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner was hanged for murder charges at the Iranian city of Zanjan’s Central Prison last Wednesday. According to IHR sources, a 34-year old man from Tabriz city of Iran was hanged on the morning of Wednesday, March 20, 2019. The prisoner, identified as Reza Akbari, was in prison for six years and was transferred …

CHRI – The family of two political prisoners is facing homelessness now that they’ve received notice that their family home and only remaining property will be confiscated by the Iranian government, their son Iman Sadeghi informed the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on March 15, 2019. “In addition to our house in Kashan, the authorities have confiscated our …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner was executed at Shirvan Prison for murder charges last Saturday. According to the IHR sources, on the morning of Saturday, March 13, a prisoner identified as Salman Azarpanah, was executed at Shirvan Prison. Shirvan is a city in North Khorasan Province of Iran. A well-informed source told IHR, “Salman was in prison since …

Radiofarda – France told Iran on Thursday that European efforts to keep a nuclear deal alive did not mean Tehran had a blank check to violate the human rights of its citizens, after lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh received a long prison sentence. An internationally renowned human rights lawyer jailed in Iran, Sotoudeh was handed a new sentence on Monday that her …

CHRI – Another Labour Activist Appeals Flogging Sentence Labor activist As’ad Behnam Ebrahimzadeh has been sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to copy three books by hand for engaging in peaceful activities including attending protests by sugar mill workers in southwestern Iran. Labor activist As’ad Behnam Ebrahimzadeh has been sentenced to six years in prison without due process. Ebrahimzadeh told …