Human rights

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – After 11 years of confinement, a Zahedan prisoner on death row for murder charges has been transferred today, September 5, 2018, to solitary confinement per protocol for detainees whose execution is imminent.

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Mostafa Daneshjoo, an attorney, is currently serving prison time for his legal advocacy and defense of the Gonabadi Dervishes, a religious minority. These days, Daneshjoo is sacrificing more than his freedom: he is now being forced to sacrifice his health.

Iran Human Rights – Reza Khandan, a civil activist, was arrested yesterday, September 4, in Tehran. Several lawyers and civil activists have been arrested over the past two months indicating Iranian authorities’ intensification of the civil society crackdown.

CHRI – Seven Lawyers Now Behind Bars with More Summoned or Banned from Work

CHRI – Fears for Ramin Hossein Panahi Grow Despite Torture and Due Process Violation Concerns   The execution of a Kurdish death-row prisoner has become more likely, despite credible questions regarding violations of due process in his case, torture and other rights violations.

CHRI – Women’s rights activists Hoda Amid and Najmeh Vahedi were arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organization in Tehran on September 1, 2018 and taken to an unknown location, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned.

CHRI – Farhad Meysami, the 48-year-old physician who has been detained in Iran’s Evin Prison since his arrest on July 31, 2018, is physically deteriorating after being on hunger strike for over a month to protest his unlawful detainment.

Al-Arabia – Tehran municipality officers cut off a child’s ear because they found him looking in trash for anything to sell and make a living, Iranian media outlets reports on Monday.

Iran Human Rights Monitor, Monthly report – August 2018

Amnesty – Responding to the arrest in Iran this morning of Reza Khandan, the husband of prominent jailed human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, Amnesty International’s Research and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Philip Luther, said: