Senior Advisor to Judiciary Asks Why the State Should Be Concerned with “Legal Matters” Pourmohammadi: “We still haven’t settled scores” August 5, 2019—New remarks by a senior judicial official in Iran, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, in which he openly defended the extrajudicial executions of some 4000-5000 prisoners in 1988 as ...
(9 May 2019) – UN human rights experts* called on Iran to immediately halt the practice of executing child offenders, citing serious concerns for up to 90 individuals who were all under the age of 18 at the time of their alleged offences and are ...
Iran’s Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi has appointed Ali Alghasi-Mehr as the new prosecutor general of Tehran. Two months after being appointed by the supreme leader as Iran’s new ...
The appointment by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei of a known human rights violator to head the country’s judiciary is a prelude to dark days ahead for human and civil rights defenders, Iranian attorney ...
Majid Shoja, Police Chief Three prisoners accused of killing law enforcement agents during drug raids were executed in the eastern Iranian province of South Khorasan, according to a press release issued by a local police ...
Iranian students clash with riot police during an anti-government protest around the University of Tehran, Iran, 30 December 2017. Living conditions difficult for many Iranians Expert calls for release of those detained for exercising their rights Law allowing death sentence for children must ...
Despite being diagnosed with mental and emotional disorders, Mohammad Kalhori is facing imminent execution in Iran for a crime he allegedly committed at the age of 15, his attorney Hossein Aghakhani told the Center for Human Rights in Iran ...
Javaid Rehman was appointed as the third Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in ...
UN, Geneva, February 21, 2019 -- Iran must immediately halt the imminent execution of child offender Mohammad Kalhori, say a group of UN human rights experts*. Mohammad Kalhori** was sentenced to death for killing his teacher when he was 15 years old. It is reported that his family ...
The former director of NASA's Solar System Exploration program, Dr. Firouz Naderi, has joined the international call for Iran to release all political prisoners including Nasrin Sotoudeh, Farhad Meysami and Reza Khandan, who were all imprisoned this year in Iran for peacefully advocating human and women's rights. ...
A defendant addresses Judge Abolqasem Salavati, who's notorious in Iran for issuing harsh sentences in politically sensitive case. Two Men Already Executed, 1,700 Others Summoned Since ...
At Least Four Academics and One Scientist With Foreign Ties Detained in Iran Since 2016 *Editor's Note: This article was corrected on December 6, 2018, to reflect that Mohammad Jalal Abbasi was summoned, not detained. One Iranian demography expert who has held academic postings in Australia has ...