Human rights

iranhumanrights – Iranian authorities have refused to allow the family of a teacher’s rights activist any access to him or provide them with any information about his condition or case after he was arrested and admitted to a psychiatric

iranhumanrights – Peaceful Prisoner, Convicted Without Due Process, Has Been Denied Furlough for Past 10 Years. October 26, 2018 – A Canadian resident imprisoned in Iran for the last 10 years should be released on medical grounds given his deteriorating health status, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a statement today.

rferl.org – Human Rights Watch has called on Iran to immediately release eight environmental activists who’ve been detained since January unless authorities “can produce evidence to justify the charges against them and guarantee a fair trial.”

iran-hrm.com – The U.N. independent expert on human rights in Iran urged Tehran on Wednesday to abolish the death penalty for juveniles.

iran-hrm.com – Imprisoned Iranian-born Canadian resident Saeed Malekpour, who was hospitalized in a heart unit of Tehran’s Taleghani Hospital, was returned to Evin prison on Tuesday, without receiving adequate treatment.

iranhumanrights – The lawyer representing the family of a prominent activist and environmentalist whose burned corpse was found in the trunk of his car has vowed to seek justice for the victim and refuted the unsubstantiated claims that the activist suffered from depression.

voanews – The wife of a prominent Iranian teachers union leader said Wednesday that Iranian security forces had detained her husband and hospitalized him for a purported mental illness that she knew nothing about.

alarabiya – The UN Special Rapporteur on the  human rights situation in Iran, Javid Rehman, presented his report in his first mission, in front a UN panel in New York on Wednesday, with the United Kingdom, United States and the

rferl.org – When journalist Pouyan Khoshhal penned an article about the potential health risks to Iranians of a major Shi’ite pilgrimage to neighboring Iraq, he might not have guessed that it could cost him his job and land him in jail.

amnesty.org – The Iranian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Farhad Meysami, a human rights defender campaigning for women’s rights, who is being held in the medical clinic at Evin prison in Tehran against his will to pressure him into ending his hunger strike, said Amnesty International. Farhad Meysami, a medical doctor, was detained in July for supporting a campaign …