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Executions / Life

Iran Election: Political Prisoners Dying Under Candidate Raisi’s Watch

Iran Election: Political Prisoners Dying Under Candidate Raisi’s Watch

June 7, 2021

At Least Two Political Prisoners Have Died in Past Four Months  Niknafs Was Jailed Despite Health Conditions That Made Him Unfit for Prison June 7, 2021 – Another political prisoner has died in state custody two weeks before Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi, who is ultimately responsible for ...

Iran Election: Don’t Ignore Ebrahim Raisi’s Gross Rights Violations

Iran Election: Don’t Ignore Ebrahim Raisi’s Gross Rights Violations

June 3, 2021

Judiciary Chief’s Presidential Bid Reignites Calls for Accountability June 3, 2021 – Iranian presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi should be investigated for crimes against humanity, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a statement today. “Raisi is a pillar of a system that jails, tortures, and ...

Joint Letter: Biden’s Iran Policy Must Include Focus on Human Rights

Joint Letter: Biden’s Iran Policy Must Include Focus on Human Rights

May 10, 2021

The Center for Human Rights in Iran, along with eight other organizations, today sent a letter to the Biden-Harris administration calling for human rights to be advanced parallel to other matters with Iran May 10, 2021 -- Today PEN America and the Center for Human Rights in ...

Joint Letter: Biden Admin Urged to Prioritize Iranian Human Rights Concerns

Joint Letter: Biden Admin Urged to Prioritize Iranian Human Rights Concerns

May 10, 2021

May 10, 2021 The Honorable Joseph R. Biden The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear President Biden, We, the undersigned organizations, write to urge you to prioritize human rights as you shape your administration’s foreign policy toward Iran. As the United States works to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of ...

Relatives Visit Ethnic Arab Prisoners in Khuzestan Jail Only to Be Handed Corpses Minutes Later

Relatives Visit Ethnic Arab Prisoners in Khuzestan Jail Only to Be Handed Corpses Minutes Later

March 4, 2021

"They Learned of the Executions When the Bodies of Their Children Were Delivered to Them" Ethnically Arab political prisoners Jasem Heidary, Hossein Silawi, Ali Khasraji, and Nasser Khafajian (Khafaji) were executed inside Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz, the capital of Iran's Khuzestan Province, on February 28, 2021, without ...

UN: Iran Committed Multiple Rights Violations in Downing of Ukrainian Jet and Aftermath

UN: Iran Committed Multiple Rights Violations in Downing of Ukrainian Jet and Aftermath

March 2, 2021

45-Page Letter by Top Experts Details Harassment of Victims’ Families and Violent Suppression of Protests In a 45-page official letter to the government of Iran by Agnès Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, and Javaid Rehman, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the ...

Iran’s Political Prisoners Are Dying Due to Denial of Medical Care

Iran’s Political Prisoners Are Dying Due to Denial of Medical Care

February 22, 2021

Death of Behnam Mahjoubi Will Be Followed by Others without Urgent Action February 22, 2021—The death of prisoner of conscience Behnam Mahjoubi, who died on February 21, 2021, after untreated medical conditions that included serious neurological issues, reflects the continued crisis in Iran’s prisons, where prisoners, especially prisoners of conscience ...

UN Experts Condemn Iran’s Executions of Baloch Minority Prisoners

UN Experts Condemn Iran’s Executions of Baloch Minority Prisoners

February 4, 2021

Following is the UN statement issued today condemning the Iranian judiciary's hanging of Javid Dehghan, a member of the country's Baloch minority, amid a recent increase in executions of Baloch minority prisoners in the country. Iran: UN experts alarmed over execution of Baloch minority ...

Dying of Hopelessness: Suicides on the Rise in Iran

Dying of Hopelessness: Suicides on the Rise in Iran

February 1, 2021

Suicides increased in Iran in 2020, according to state medical data. Blue-collar workers as well as students who’ve been disproportionately impacted by the country’s struggling economy dominated media reports of people taking their own lives. The victims include an 11-year-old boy in Bushehr, located on the Persian Gulf coast, ...

Athletes Appeal to Save Life of Wrestler on Death Row

Athletes Appeal to Save Life of Wrestler on Death Row

January 13, 2021

On January 9, 2021, a press report was published in Iran about the imminent execution of 29-year-old wrestler Mehdi Ali-Hosseini for a murder he allegedly committed five years ago. He was scheduled to be executed on January 10 but was granted a ...

Comment by UN High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet on the Execution in Iran of Ruhollah Zam

Comment by UN High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet on the Execution in Iran of Ruhollah Zam

December 15, 2020

Geneva, 14 December 2020 I am appalled at the execution in Iran on 12 December of Ruhollah Zam, activist and founder of the AmadNews Telegram channel. His death sentence and execution by hanging are emblematic of a pattern of forced confessions extracted under torture and broadcast on state media being used ...

Europe Says “No Business as Usual” with Iran After Hanging of Dissident Journalist

Europe Says “No Business as Usual” with Iran After Hanging of Dissident Journalist

December 14, 2020

EU Countries Withdraw from Iran Business Forum in Protest Over Execution France Tweets Outrage over “Barbaric and Unacceptable” Execution of Rouhollah Zam December 14, 2020—Major European countries have pulled out of a planned Europe-Iran Business Forum that was scheduled to begin today, December 14, in protest over Iran’s ...

Rights Groups Call on Supreme Leader to Release Sotoudeh, Stop Persecution of Lawyers

Rights Groups Call on Supreme Leader to Release Sotoudeh, Stop Persecution of Lawyers

December 2, 2020

A group of human rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) have penned an open letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei calling on him to secure the permanent release from prison of renowned defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh and "help to restore ...

Iran Must Not Execute Ahmadreza Djalali

Iran Must Not Execute Ahmadreza Djalali

November 25, 2020

Execution Reported to Be Imminent, Wife Has Received Farewell Call Swedish-Iranian Doctor Was Convicted on Spurious Charges After Unfair Trial November 25, 2020—The reported imminent execution of Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian doctor and academic who was convicted in Iran on manufactured espionage charges after an unfair trial, ...

Top UN Experts: Iran Must Halt Execution of Ahmadreza Djalali

Top UN Experts: Iran Must Halt Execution of Ahmadreza Djalali

November 25, 2020

Execution of Swedish Doctor “would be a clear and serious violation” of law The UN issued a statement today calling for an immediate halt to the execution of Ahmadreza Djalali, which is reportedly imminent. The Swedish-Iranian medical scholar was convicted on spurious charges in 2017 after an unfair ...

UN: Iran Must Conduct Independent Inquiry into Violence against Protests in November 2019

UN: Iran Must Conduct Independent Inquiry into Violence against Protests in November 2019

October 27, 2020

“Nasrin Sotoudeh and all other individuals arbitrarily detained must be immediately released” The UN’s top expert on Iran, Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, said in a statement today, October 26, 2020, that the ...

Book Review: Nasser Mohajer, Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988

Book Review: Nasser Mohajer, Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988

October 27, 2020

Book Review Nasser Mohajer, Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988 Oneworld  Publications, 2020 Mansour Farhang In 1988, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a secret fatwa (a religious edict) ordering judicial authorities to execute between 4,500 and ...

Prisoner on Death Row Not Allowed to Attend Funeral of Grieving Father Who Committed Suicide

Prisoner on Death Row Not Allowed to Attend Funeral of Grieving Father Who Committed Suicide

October 1, 2020

Father of Amirhossein Moradi Distraught Over His Son’s Unjust Death Sentence Iranian authorities have rejected requests by Amirhossein Moradi, who has been sentenced to death on a false murder charge, to attend the funeral of his father, Nasser Moradi, who committed suicide from grief ...

Nasrin Sotoudeh, Health Deteriorating, Breaks Hunger Strike

Nasrin Sotoudeh, Health Deteriorating, Breaks Hunger Strike

September 26, 2020

Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer Had Been on Hunger Strike Since Aug 11 September 26, 2020—The imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has broken the hunger strike she had been on since August 11, her husband, Reza Khandan told the Center for Human Rights in Iran today, September ...

Narges Mohammadi’s Letter from Prison: “The lives of people on death row are in danger”

Narges Mohammadi’s Letter from Prison: “The lives of people on death row are in danger”

September 22, 2020

“The regime…knows no legal, logical or religious bounds in denying the rights of dissidents” Prominent human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, imprisoned in Iran since 2015 for her peaceful defense of civil and political liberties, has written an impassioned letter from prison in which she speaks out against ...

Danger of Imminent Execution of Kurdish Political Prisoner, Lawyer Says

Danger of Imminent Execution of Kurdish Political Prisoner, Lawyer Says

September 22, 2020

Supreme Court Refuses to Review Death Sentence Despite Lack of Evidence of Guilt Kurdish political prisoner Heydar Ghorbani is in danger of imminent execution as Iran’s highest court has refused to review the death sentence against him, his lawyer Saleh Nikbakht told the Center for Human Rights in ...

UN “Strongly Condemns” Iran’s Execution of 27-Year-Old Wrestler

UN “Strongly Condemns” Iran’s Execution of 27-Year-Old Wrestler

September 14, 2020

Execution of Navid Afkari: “Imposed following a process that did not meet even the most basic…fair trial standards, behind a smokescreen of a murder charge” UN human rights experts released a statement today “strongly condemning” Iran’s execution of Navid Afkari, who was put to death by hanging ...

Execution of Navid Afkari: “Iran’s Judiciary is a Tool of Political Repression and Violence and a Threat to the People”

Execution of Navid Afkari: “Iran’s Judiciary is a Tool of Political Repression and Violence and a Threat to the People”

September 12, 2020

Champion Wrestler Executed despite Evidence of Torture and Innocence September 12, 2020—The execution of Navid Afkari, the 27-year-old champion wrestler, by hanging at sunrise today in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, demonstrates the Iranian judiciary’s complete disregard for law, justice and international standards of due process. The ...

Top UN Iran Expert Expresses “Alarm” at Iran’s “Unprecedented Violent Crackdown” against Protestors

Top UN Iran Expert Expresses “Alarm” at Iran’s “Unprecedented Violent Crackdown” against Protestors

September 11, 2020

Imprisonment of Lawyers and Human Rights Defenders, Juvenile Executions, Singled Out for Condemnation In the latest report by the UN’s top expert on Iran, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, expressed “alarm” and “dismay” over ...

Death Sentence for Champion Wrestler Based on False Evidence, Torture and Forced False Confessions

Death Sentence for Champion Wrestler Based on False Evidence, Torture and Forced False Confessions

September 2, 2020

Lawyer for Navid Afkari: Video Footage Proves He Did Not Commit Alleged Crime “There is not one shred of evidence ... they are looking for a neck for their rope” September 2, 2020—The Iranian wrestling champion Navid Afkari has been sentenced to death for allegedly killing a security man ...

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