Human rights

Iran-HRM – Sources say political prisoner Arzhang Davoodi was beaten and thrown off a staircase and broken his two legs and shoulder at Zahedan Central Prison in Iran’s Baluchistan province. 

Iran-HRM – Iranian lawyers Arash Keykhosravi and Qasem Sholeh Sa’di who had been arrested on August 18 for taking part a protest rally in front of regime’s parliament, have been sentenced to a total of 12 years in jail.

HRNA – The following is an overview of human rights violations in Iran on December 10th,2018 based on the information compiled and verified by Human Rights Activists NewsAgency (HRNA).

CHRI – Four months after 19 university students in Iran were issued harsh prison sentences for attending protests, the country’s president declared that Iran’s “universities are the freest in the world.”

CHRI – In an open letter published December 9, 2018, 121 Nobel Laureates have called on Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to ensure that ailing Iranian Swedish dual national Ahmadreza Djalali, a physician and scholar who specializes in disaster medicine, receives the “best possible medical care,” is “treated humanely and fairly,” and to “allow Dr. Djalali to return home to his wife and children …

Al-Arabia – Human Rights Day, marked on December 10, is a wake-up call for the world as human rights violations are the order of the day for suppressive regimes around the globe. The Iranian regime has by far exceeded others in abusing its own citizens.

Iran-HRM – Rising consumer goods prices in less than six months has caused people especially the middle class to get poorer.

Amnesty – Women activists around the world have been at the forefront of the battle for human rights in 2018, Amnesty International said today as it launched its review on the state of human rights over the past year.

Amnesty – Overview of situation for women human rights defenders across the Middle East and North Africa in 2018 available here

Amnesty – In December 2018, hundreds of thousands of ordinary people all over the world will come together to write letters, scribble postcards, draw pictures and send emails – all of them focused on one thing: making change happen.