Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 8, 2023: Farhad Aghayi, a man sentenced to qisas(retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Kermanshah Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Kermanshah (Dizel Abad) Central Prison on 8 November. His identity has been established as Farhad Aghayi who was sentenced to qisas for murder by the Criminal Court. Kurdpa …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Akbar Farokhi, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Urmia Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Urmia Central Prison on 8 November. His identity has been established as Akbar Farokhi from Urmia who was sentenced to qisas for murder. Akbar Farokhi was transferred to solitary confinement …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities transferred Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who is incarcerated in Tehran’s Evin prison, to a hospital after she launched a hunger strike earlier this week, her husband says.  Taghi Rahmani said on November 8 that the human rights activist “was taken to the hospital without the mandatory hijab for medical tests.” Rahmani, who …

RFL/RE – The family of a 17-year-old who was fatally shot during protests in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad is outraged after the military prosecutor’s office decided to close the investigation into his death without coming to a conclusion. Abolfazl Adinehzadeh was killed during nationwide unrest following the September 2022 death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran’s morality …

Iranwire – Iranian intelligence agents have arrested Ayat Mehr Ali Beiglo, a prominent Azeri political activist and former political prisoner, IranWire has learned. Agents of the Tabriz Intelligence Department apprehended Mehr Ali Beiglou on November 7 at an auto repair shop where he had brought his car for servicing. The agents had compelled the repair shop’s owner to call the …

Amnesty – Iranian Kurdish man Reza (Gholamreza) Rasaei is at risk of execution in relation to the September to December 2022 nationwide protests in Iran. Following a grossly unfair trial, on 7 October 2023, Branch Two of Criminal Court 1 of Kermanshah province convicted him of “murder” and sentenced him to death, admitting his torture-tainted forced “confessions” as “evidence”. https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MDE1373812023ENGLISH.pdf

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 7, 2023: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi is on a food and medicine strike in Evin Prison after being denied urgent medical care. Authorities are refusing to send her to a hospital under the pretext that she will not wear the mandatory hijab. Narges requires urgent medical treatment for cardiovascular disease. Expressing grave concern for Narges …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Hamed Barahouyi, a Baluch man sentenced to death for drug-related charges, was executed in Isfahan Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a Baluch man was executed in Isfahan Central Prison (Dastgerd) on 6 November. His identity has been established as 40-year-old Hamed Barahouyi who was sentenced to death for drug-related charges …

Shabtabnews – The mother of a murdered Basiji demands the retrial and execution of Hamid Gharehassanlou. In a recent appearance on the Iranian national TV the mother of murdered Basiji (Ajamian) stated that she has been victim of foul play as the result of the political influence of Sufis within the Iranian court system. In her TV appearance she demanded …

RFL/RE – Iranian authorities have referred the case of Masud Zeynalzadeh, who was arrested at the funeral of 17-year-old Armita Garavand, to Tehran’s Revolutionary Court in an escalation of their campaign against members of the teachers’ union. The Coordinating Council of Teachers Syndicates said on November 5 that Zeynalzadeh’s file had been expedited to the Islamic Revolutionary Court. Zeynalzadeh has been in …