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CHRI – Case Highlights Violations of Domestic and International Law and Judiciary’s Lack of Independence A young man who was incarcerated at 15 years of age was sentenced to death in Iran upon turning 18—despite the provincial state medical examiner’s report that Mohammad Kalhor was not mentally mature when he allegedly committed murder. The Center for Human Rights in Iran …

CHRI – Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi has expressed doubt that a commission created by President Hassan Rouhani would shed light on the recent death in state custody of Iranian-Canadian academic and environmentalist Kavous Seyed-Emami. “I hope the commission will be successful,” Ebadi told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on February 24, 2018. “But the past trend …

Al-Monitor – As Iranian security agencies have been arresting a number of environmentalists, officials from President Hassan Rouhani’s administration are pushing back against the agencies’ ability to charge that those arrested are spies.                         In an interview with Iran Newspaper, which is published by the administration, presidential adviser Ali …

Al-Monitor – A senior military adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Feb. 27 for talks with Iraq and Afghanistan on water resources. At a two-day conference in Tehran, “National Water Diplomacy and Opportunities for Hydropolitics in West Asia,” former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Yahya Rahim Safavi said, “The issue of the scarcity of water resources may …

Iran-HRM – There have reports that a number of Security forces attacked Gonabadi Dervish protesters who were arrested in Golestan Haftom are in critical condition. Amir Nouri, who suffered injuries in his hand had one of his fingers amputated due to the severity of the injury. He also has a fractured head and bruises. Mr. Nouri and 30 other people …