Kameel Ahmady Was Held in Solitary Confinement for Nearly a Month, Detention Order Extended Held in solitary confinement since being arrested in Tehran on August 11, 2019, Iranian-British anthropologist Kameel Ahmady will remain in detention for a minimum of several more weeks, the Center for Human Rights ...
Iran Has Detained at Least Three Australians in the Last Year September 16, 2019 – Australian academic Kylie Gilbert-Moore has been held for almost a year in Ward 2-A of Tehran’s Evin Prison, controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) intelligence organization, the Center for ...
Minute of Silence Observed for "Blue Girl" Stadium Ban Resister Who Died by Self-Immolation Activists leading the struggle against Iran's ban on women in stadiums were honored with the "Sport for Human Rights" award sponsored by social change organizations Beyond Sport and Equality League at a reception ...
No More Empty Promises: FIFA Should Call on Iran to Lift Ban Once and For All September 10, 2019 – The death of Sahar Khodayari, a woman who set herself on fire in Tehran because she thought she would have to serve jail time for trying ...
Seven Sentenced to Lengthy Jail Terms in Connection with Peaceful Protests September 9, 2019—Less than a year after workers’ rights activists in southwestern Iran publicized evidence that Intelligence Ministry agents had tortured detainees, those same activists and four independent journalists who covered their cases have been ...
Political prisoners Atena Daemi and Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi have been told they must serve an additional ...
During a speech addressing Iran’s legislature, member of Parliament (MP) Parvaneh Salahshouri strongly criticized the recent crackdown on journalists and workers’ rights advocates and called on recently appointed Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi to uphold the rule of law. A group of MPs subsequently called on ...
A 29-year-old woman set herself on fire outside a Tehran courthouse reportedly after hearing that she would have to serve six months in prison after being arrested while trying to enter a stadium to watch a men's soccer match. A 29-year-old woman who ...
Prison Fails to Meet UN’s Minimum Standards for Treatment of Prisoners Two hundred inmates in Ward 5 of Gharchak Prison for women in the Iranian city of Varamin have sent an open letter to the head of the State Prisons Organization in Tehran Province protesting the prison’s inhumane living ...
Demonstrating the Iranian authorities’ continued intolerance for peaceful dissent, two open letters written since June 2019 by 28 political and civil rights activists urging Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to step down have led to the arrest of at least 13 of the signers by the security ...
Wife’s Requests for Charges and Medical Examination Go Unanswered After more than two weeks in detention, Iranian-British social anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has not had any contact with his family except three phone calls, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. His wife, Shafagh Rahmani, told ...
Public transportation, roads, and buildings are frequently inaccessible in Iran, leading to increased accidents and isolation for people with disabilities. News of severe injuries sustained by a blind man who fell from a pedestrian bridge in the southern Iranian city of Chabahar has ...
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