Human rights

Iran Human Rights – Seyed Danial ZeinolAbedini is a juvenile offender whose death sentence has been upheld by the Supreme Court and is scheduled for execution. Iran Human Rights (IHR) urges the Iranian authorities to stop juvenile executions and calls on the international community to pay urgent attention to Seyyed-Danidal’s case.

Iran-HRM – Iranian political prisoner Soheil Arabi, imprisoned for his social media postings since November 2013, sent a message from the Great Tehran Prison on the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, describing the institutionalized violence against women in Iran.

Iran-HRM – On Wednesday, November 28, security agents arrested two Baha’is in Karaj near Tehran and took them to an unknown location. The two detainees have been identified as Neda Shabani and Soroush Agahi.

RFL/RE – UN human rights experts have called on Iran to release human rights defenders and lawyers who have been jailed for publicly supporting protests against the compulsory hijab in Iran.

Iran Human Rights (IHR); December 1, 2018: A prisoner convicted of murdering a prominent cleric who had allegedly sexually abused him when he was a minor, was hanged this morning at Rasht Central Prison in northern Iran. IHR had previously reported about his case and scheduled execution.

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner was hanged in public at Iranian city of Taft (Central Iran) on Thursday, November 29. The man was suffering from mental disability and had previously been hospitalized in a Psychiatric hospital, according to the Iranian media reports.

CHRI – Law for the Protection of the Rights of Disabled Persons Requires Designated Funding

Radiofarda – Nearly ten years after a harsh crackdown ended Iran’s youth-driven Green Movement, sometimes called the “Persian Spring,” it appears university students have lost their appetite for political activism amid ever tighter restrictions on freedom of speech.

Radiofarda – Labor activists in Iran say a detained worker and labor leader was tortured in custody and hospitalized in recent days, while officials deny the accusations.

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Amirsalar Davoudi, member of the Iranian Bar Association was arrested by the Iranian Judiciary on Tuesday, November 20. Amirsalar Davoudi was the defense attorney of several political and civil activists in Iran.