Family Ordered to Conceal Shiraz Man’s Death at Protest Iranian authorities pressured the family of Bahman Jafari, who died from a bullet wound to his heart on November 17, 2019, while state forces were trying to crush a protest in the city of Shiraz, to lie about his ...
Shahnaz Akmali Summoned to Jail After Visiting Fellow Victim’s Family Less than a month after hundreds of people were killed in the Iranian authorities’ crackdown on November’s mass street protests, a court in Tehran summoned the mother of a victim killed in a 2009 crackdown to prison ...
Detainees Punished for Complaining That They Were Forced to Make False Statements, Says Lawyer Iranian authorities are refusing to transfer imprisoned conservationist Sam Rajabi to the hospital to treat a serious medical condition, and are continuing to hold three of his colleagues in solitary confinement without legal justification, the ...
Fifteen-year-old Mohammad Dastankhah was walking home from high school in the city of Shiraz, Fars Province when he was shot and killed by a bullet while local authorities were repressing street protests in his city. In an interview with the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), his sister ...
Family of Bystander Killed During Protests Demands Answers Reports of the shooting deaths of bystanders not involved in the recent protests in Iran in mid-November continue to grow, indicating the breadth of the indiscriminate firing of live ammunition into crowds of civilians by security forces intent on crushing ...
Victim Hamid Taheri's Relatives Forced to Sign "Pledge of Silence" Hospital authorities in the city of Islamshahr, Tehran Province, transferred the body of Hamid Taheri to state security forces without his family’s permission after he died from a bullet wound on November 16, 2019, his father-in-law, Rahim Ajari, ...
Foreign Policy Chief Urges Iran to Hold Perpetrators of Protest Deaths Accountable, Provide Detainees Due Process December 10, 2019 - The EU should lead calls for the UN to investigate Iranian state forces' use of lethal means to repress the country's mid-November 2019 protests which resulted in hundreds ...
Violent state repression of protests in Iran is not unique, yet the lethal means government forces used to repress recent protests that broke out across dozens of cities reached new heights this year, resulting in at least 208 deaths between November 15, 2019, and December 2, according to reporting by Amnesty International. "What ...
“My son was only defending the rights of his people” The family of Pouya Bakhtiari, a 27-year-old man shot and killed by security forces in the Mehrshahr district of Karaj, west of the capital Tehran, on November 16, 2019, during the recent protests that gripped Iran, will seek ...
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