Social and Political

CHRI – The Iranian government’s fabricated accusations against two unlawfully detained female journalists, Niloufar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, who face severe punishments without access to due process, are part of the state’s efforts to slander the country’s protest movement and should be strongly condemned, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). “This witch hunt is a cowardly attempt …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – At least 277 people, including 40 children and 24 women have been killed in the ongoing nationwide protests. Underlining the high death toll, Iran Human Rights warns about the condition of detainees and heavy sentences including the death penalty. Director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: “Instead of accepting people’s legal demands, the Islamic Republic is clamping down …

Al-Monitor – The Ekbatan residential complex in west Tehran resembled a war zone late Monday as Iranian security forces took aim at apartments with bullets, tear gas and stun grenades, according to videos posted online by monitoring groups.    Riot police and paramilitary hard-line Basij forces raided the middle-class district to shut down protest shouts from windows. Nightly chanting has been trending as an alternative and …

Al-Arabia – The leader of an Iranian Arab opposition group who was assassinated in the Netherlands in 2017 had warned Dutch police his life was in danger at least seven times prior to his killing, Dutch newspaper Volkskrant reported on Tuesday. Ahmad Mola Nissi, a leader in the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz (ASMLA), was shot dead …

Iranwire – Canada has imposed a fourth package of sanctions against the Iranian clerical regime over what it called “ongoing gross and systematic human rights violations and continued actions to destabilize peace and security.” The new sanctions list includes four individuals and two entities believed to be involved in human rights abuse “either in Iran or in the regime’s malign …

CHRI – Reports of at least one doctor being killed by state security forces and at least six others being arbitrarily arrested at peaceful protests in Tehran and Mashhad indicate Iran’s medical community is facing deadly state violence as the Iranian government deploys lethal force to crush the country’s growing protest movement, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran …

Shabtabnews – In a twitter statement Un Special Rapporteur called for an international investigative mechanism for Iran’s repression of Iranians which includes those protesting mandatory hijab laws, and his call for these laws to be abolished. USCIRF Commissioner @StephenSchneck: "USCIRF applauds UN Special Rapporteur @JavaidRehman's call for an international investigative mechanism for Iran's repression of Iranians which includes those protesting …

Al-Arabia – About 1,000 people have been indicted in Tehran over rioting and the trials will be held in public this week, the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted the head of the judiciary in the Iranian capital as saying on Monday. Iran has been gripped by protests since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of …

RFL/RE – Students at several Iranian universities have launched sit-ins after skirmishes over the weekend where security forces fired tear gas and used live ammunition to disperse protests sparked by the death of a young woman while she was being held in police custody for allegedly violating the country’s rules on wearing a head scarf. Students began the sit-in on …

Iranwire – Nationwide protests continued across Iran for the 44th consecutive night on Sunday, as another child was killed in Iranshahr after being beaten by security forces. Halwash news agency and the Baloch Activists’ Campaign which monitors human rights violations in Balochistan identified the child as Parmis Hamnava, an 8th-grade schoolgirl. Meanwhile, students have continued to gather in dozens of …