Human rights

Iranwire – An Iranian protester who endured months of torture while in custody is hospitalized in Türkiye in a “critical” health condition, waiting for a liver transplant, her sister says. Elham Modarresi was arrested a year ago for participating in anti-establishment protests that swept the country following the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, activists say. After months …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – State media have reported the execution of a man only identified as Akbar for murder in Tabriz Central Prison. According to Rokna, a man was executed in Tabriz Central Prison in the last week. The ma only named as Akbar was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder by the Criminal Court. He had allegedly killed someone during …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Khodadad Rahimi and Saber Alikhani were executed for drug-related charges in Kashan Prison. 45 others are currently at risk of execution at the prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Kashan Prison on 8 November. Their identities have been established as 40-year-old Khodadad Rahimi and 31-year-old Saber Alikhani …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – State media reported the execution of two men for drug-related charges in Bandarabbas Central Prison. According to Hamshahri Online, two men were executed in Bandarabbas Central Prison on 8 November. One of the unnamed men was 62 years old and had been sentenced to death for trafficking 350 kilograms of heroin. The other was a …

iranintl – Iran’s Parliament (Majles) has directed the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance to monitor citizens’ personal lives, as the regime’s ideology loses ground. The goal is to assess how individuals’ lifestyles align with the broader culture of the Islamic Republic, their media consumption patterns, their inclination toward foreign-based media for news and information, and their utilization of communication …

RFL/RE – Iran has sentenced French national Louis Arnaud, whose family says he was traveling in the country as a tourist, to five years in prison on national-security charges. Arnaud’s mother said in a statement on November 8 that her son’s trial was held at the Revolutionary Court without him having a lawyer present. A statement from his family added …

RFL/RE – Iran has arrested at least nine more members of the Baha’i faith, the country’s largest non-Muslim community, and raided the homes of 20 Baha’i families in the western Iranian city of Hamadan, sources told RFERL’s Radio Farda, the latest in a series of acts by the government against the faith’s followers. Eyewitnesses described the searches conducted by the “armed” …

Iranwire – Toomaj Salehi, a popular Iranian rapper incarcerated for supporting anti-establishment protests, continues to be denied medical treatment for injuries he sustained while in custody, his lawyer says. Salehi was violently arrested on November 30 amid nationwide demonstrations sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while she was in police custody.  The artist, whose fingers and leg were broken under …

Iranwire – The movie Ameh Pasand (Popular) has been released in Iranian cinemas, with the white promotional posters featuring only the film’s title and the names of the actors. This is due to a prohibition by the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance on using images of two actresses featured in the movie, Baran Kosari and Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, who were prosecuted this year after …

Iranwire – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Iran Justice lawyers collective have jointly filed a complaint with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention against the Iranian government, as part of efforts to put an end to the arbitrary detention of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi. The referral made on November 8 requests an “urgent action” …