Human rights

Iran-HRM – Gonabadi Dervish women held in Qarchak prison on January 31, 2019, wrote a letter to the prison’s warden Mohammadi to protest being locked up with prisoners convicted of drug trafficking, robbery and murder.

VOA – Iran has detained another environmentalist who worked for the same Iranian conservation organization as eight activists who went on trial in Tehran last week after spending a year in detention.

HRANA – The following is an overview of human rights violations in Iran on February 4th, 2019 based on the information compiled and verified by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).

Iran Human Rights (IHR) –  In an unusual event, 10 death-row Salafi prisoners were transferred to Rajai Shahr solitary confinement this morning. Executions are usually carried out on Wednesday in Rajai Shahr, and prisoners are transferred to solitary confinement a couple of days prior to that. Therefore, the Salafi prisoners might be at risk of execution.

CHRI – Victims Face Social Stigma and Inadequate State Laws and Services

Al-Monitor – A year has passed since Iran arrested a number of environmentalists over accusations of spying and other serious crimes. The arrests shocked the Iranian activist community and tightened even further the boundaries of what activists assumed was safe work in a nonpolitical and nonpartisan field. With the court proceedings barely moving and minimal access to their lawyers in …

Radiofarda – Several members of the Iranian Parliament (Majles) have called on President Hassan Rouhani to pay attention to the situation of eight detained ecologists, the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) reported on Monday.

Radiofarda – A member of parliament’s labor faction in Iran says minimum monthly wage should be increased to 40 million rials, or about $400. Currently the minimum wage is about $100.

Radiofarda – The head of Iran’s Judiciary, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani has said that around 50,000 inmates will receive full or partial pardons on the 40th anniversary of Iran’s 1979 revolution.

Radiofarda – Prominent Iranian labor activist Esmail Bakhshi is in serious condition behind bars, workers from the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane industrial complex have announced on their Telegram app channel.