Social and Political

Al-Monitor – Iranian authorities aided by notorious judges have started carrying out execution sentences against protesters as demonstrations approach their fourth month and pose one of the most serious challenges to the ruling theocracy in Iran. To date, two protestors have been executed, eleven are sentenced to death row and six have been slapped with charges that are punishable by a death …

Al-Arabia – Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that the ongoing anti-regime protests in Iran are unprecedented and that they have led to Washington “rethinking” the tattered 2015 Iran nuclear deal. To read the full transcript, click here. The current protests have swept across Iran since September 16 when 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini died after being detained by …

RFL/RE – An Iranian political prisoner has sent a voice message to Javaid Rehman, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, describing what he says is the torture that he has faced in detention. Khaled Pirzadeh, a former bodybuilding champion who has been in Ahvaz Central Prison since June 2019, told Javaid Rehman in his message that he has suffered …

RFL/RE – A 15-year-old Iranian teenager imprisoned in the central Iranian city of Karaj has been released after an interview with his mother went viral on social media. Amirhossein Rahimi’s mother told the Tehran-based Etemad newspaper that her son had been in prison for two months, even though he still had pellets in his head and chest from wounds inflicted by security …

Iranwire – An unknown number of Iranian protesters were violently arrested or killed in Karaj on November 3, after security forces attacked a crowd who had gathered to mark the 40th day since 20-year-old Hadis Najafi died in the northern city after being struck by gunfire. Forces affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) detained Darya Nazmdeh, 27, on the spot. …

Amnesty – At least 26 people are at great risk of execution in connection with nationwide protests after Iranian authorities arbitrarily executed two individuals following grossly unfair sham trials in a bid to instil fear among the public and end protests. Of the 26, at least 11 are sentenced to death and 15 are charged with capital offences and awaiting …

CHRI – At least 11 men have been sentenced to death in the Islamic Republic, and 24 others are facing charges that could carry the death penalty, raising fears of more executions following the recent hangings of two young men for their participation in the protests that have swept Iran. “Lynching committees masquerading as courts are threatening people with death …

Iranwire – A human rights group have raised alarm over the fate of a 16-years old Kurdish girl suspected by the Iranian authorities of “waging war against God,” a charge that carries a death sentence. Sonia Sharifi was arrested in mid-November by agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) intelligence agency during protests in the western town of Abdanan. The …

Iranwire – Two young Iranian men, Mohsen Shekari and Majid Reza Rahnavard, have recently been executed by hanging on the charge of moharebeh, or “waging war against God”, over their involvement in the ongoing wave of nationwide protests. Other defendants such as Hamid Ghareh Hassanlou, Saman (Yasin) Seidi and Mahan Sedarat have been sentenced to death on the same charge and for allegedly spreading “corruption on Earth”, which …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities are accusing five detained athletes from the southern city of Shiraz of plotting a bomb attack in the country, amid an ongoing brutal crackdown on nationwide protests. The semiofficial Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Republic Guards Corps (IRGC), on December 14 published a video of the four men and the woman allegedly …