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Executions / Life

Death Sentences for Five Men Upheld Despite Allegations of Torture, False Confessions

Death Sentences for Five Men Upheld Despite Allegations of Torture, False Confessions

July 31, 2020

Evidence Contradicting Guilt Ignored in Effort to Cover Up Security Forces’ Culpability July 31, 2020—Death sentences against five men arrested in Isfahan Province, central Iran, in connection with nationwide protests during December 2017-January 2018, have been upheld by the Supreme Court, a source with knowledge about ...

UN Press Release: Experts Demand Iran Quash Death Sentences Against Protesters

UN Press Release: Experts Demand Iran Quash Death Sentences Against Protesters

July 16, 2020

Farsi version Farsi version (PDF) GENEVA (16 July 2020) – UN human rights experts today strongly condemned the decision to uphold death sentences against three men for participating in protests in November 2019. The three – Amir Hossein Moradi, Saeed Tamjidi, and Mohammad Rajabi – ...

Two Kurdish Political Prisoners Executed Despite “Serious Questions” in the Case

Two Kurdish Political Prisoners Executed Despite “Serious Questions” in the Case

July 15, 2020

Both Executed without Notifying Their Families or Lawyers Politically Motivated Executions in Iran Continue to Increase Despite serious questions regarding evidence of guilt, two Kurdish political prisoners, Diako Rasoulzadeh and Saber Sheikh-Abdollah, were executed in the Central Prison in Oroumiyeh, western Iran, on July 14, 2020. The two men were ...

Death Sentences for Three Protestors Confirmed by Supreme Court in Iran

Death Sentences for Three Protestors Confirmed by Supreme Court in Iran

July 13, 2020

Death Sentences for Three Protestors Confirmed by Supreme Court in Iran Unlawful and Cruel Sentences Reflect Increase in Death Sentences in Political Cases Lawyers’ Last Hope is to Seek Judicial Review, Citing “Serious Flaws” in Rulings July 13, 2020—The death sentences against three young men for their participation in the ...

UN Condemns Iran’s Secret Execution of Kurdish Political Prisoner

UN Condemns Iran’s Secret Execution of Kurdish Political Prisoner

July 3, 2020

“I will pay the price of freedom with my life so that my memory stays in the hearts of freedom seekers and my people.” UN human rights experts have strongly condemned the Iranian judiciary's secret execution of 27-year-old ...

Kurdish Prisoner, 27, Secretly Executed Despite Judge Agreeing He Was Innocent

Kurdish Prisoner, 27, Secretly Executed Despite Judge Agreeing He Was Innocent

June 25, 2020

Death Sentence Was Result Pressure from Revolutionary Guards The family of Hedayatollah (Hedayat) Abdollahpour, a 27-year-old Kurdish-Iranian father of two who was on death row based on false charges since 2018, has...

Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Renowned Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof Summoned to Prison

Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Renowned Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof Summoned to Prison

March 4, 2020

Rasoulof’s Film About Iran’s Death Penalty Recently Won Top Prize at Berlin Film Festival March 4, 2020 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) strongly condemns the Iranian judiciary’s decision to put internationally acclaimed filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof in harm’s way by summoning him to ...

Public Outrage Grows As Reports of Bloody Crackdown Emerge: “Every Corner of Iran is Mourning the Atrocities”

Public Outrage Grows As Reports of Bloody Crackdown Emerge: “Every Corner of Iran is Mourning the Atrocities”

December 3, 2019

Public Outrage Grows As Reports of Bloody Crackdown Emerge: “Every Corner of Iran is Mourning the Atrocities” As reports of the unprecedented state violence against protestors in Iran begin to emerge now that the state-imposed internet shut-down has been lifted, the full extent of the state’s brutal crackdown ...

Slain Protester’s Father Will File Suit to Find Killer, Calls for Accountability for State Violence

Slain Protester’s Father Will File Suit to Find Killer, Calls for Accountability for State Violence

November 30, 2019

 27-Year-Old Died from Bullet to Head Amidst Violent State Assault on Protestors Manouchehr Bakhtiari, the father of a young protestor who was shot to death as he participated in the recent protests in Iran, will file a complaint with judicial authorities demanding the identification of the person responsible for ...

Iranian Government Dictated to Local Media How to Cover Protests, New Documents Reveal

Iranian Government Dictated to Local Media How to Cover Protests, New Documents Reveal

November 25, 2019

Journalists Will Be Charged with “Crimes” if Coverage Diverges from Official Line Officials Expected Protests, Dictated Instructions to Media Before Price Hike Was Announced November 25, 2019—While Iran is still reeling from the recent protests that have left scores injured, more than a hundred dead, ...

Legal Expert Says Sweden Has Authority to Prosecute Iranian Man Connected with 1988 Mass Executions

Legal Expert Says Sweden Has Authority to Prosecute Iranian Man Connected with 1988 Mass Executions

November 16, 2019

Hamid Nouri, in Swedish Custody, Linked to Death Commissions that Ordered the Extrajudicial Killing of Thousands of Prisoners Legal experts weighing in on the arrest in Sweden on November 9 of Hamid Nouri (also spelled Noury), who allegedly participated in the 1988 extrajudicial mass killings ...

Prisoners in Iran’s Gharchak Prison for Women Protest Inhumane Living Conditions 

Prisoners in Iran’s Gharchak Prison for Women Protest Inhumane Living Conditions 

August 30, 2019

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 ...

Judicial Official’s Defense of Mass Executions Sets Dangerous Precedent

Judicial Official’s Defense of Mass Executions Sets Dangerous Precedent

August 5, 2019

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 ...

UN Calls on Iran to Stop Executing Juvenile Offenders

UN Calls on Iran to Stop Executing Juvenile Offenders

May 9, 2019

(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 ...

New Chief Justice Appoints Proponent of Public Executions as Tehran Prosecutor General

New Chief Justice Appoints Proponent of Public Executions as Tehran Prosecutor General

May 7, 2019

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 ...

“It’s an Insult:” Human Rights Attorney Condemns Iran’s New Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi  

“It’s an Insult:” Human Rights Attorney Condemns Iran’s New Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi  

April 1, 2019

 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 ...

Three Men Accused of Killing Anti-Drug-Trafficking Agents Executed in Eastern Iran

Three Men Accused of Killing Anti-Drug-Trafficking Agents Executed in Eastern Iran

March 18, 2019

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 ...

UN Expert Concerned by Crackdown on Protests and Strikes in Iran

UN Expert Concerned by Crackdown on Protests and Strikes in Iran

March 15, 2019

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 ...

Lawyer of Juvenile Offender on Death Row Says Client Mohammad Kalhori Should be Pardoned

Lawyer of Juvenile Offender on Death Row Says Client Mohammad Kalhori Should be Pardoned

March 1, 2019

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 ...

New UN Report on Iran Notes Decline in Executions, Ongoing Executions of Child Offenders

New UN Report on Iran Notes Decline in Executions, Ongoing Executions of Child Offenders

February 27, 2019

Javaid Rehman was appointed as the third Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in ...

UN: Iran Must Halt Execution of Child Offender Mohammad Kalhori

UN: Iran Must Halt Execution of Child Offender Mohammad Kalhori

February 26, 2019

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 ...

NASA Director Firouz Naderi Calls For Release of Iran’s Political Prisoners

NASA Director Firouz Naderi Calls For Release of Iran’s Political Prisoners

December 18, 2018

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. ...

Iran Set to Execute Third Individual Sentenced by “Corruption Court” For Alleged Economic Crimes

Iran Set to Execute Third Individual Sentenced by “Corruption Court” For Alleged Economic Crimes

December 13, 2018

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 ...

Two Academics Who Held Australian Postings Detained, Summoned in Iran

Two Academics Who Held Australian Postings Detained, Summoned in Iran

December 4, 2018

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 ...

85 Countries Vote to Adopt UN Resolution Urging Iran to Halt Widespread Human Rights Violations

85 Countries Vote to Adopt UN Resolution Urging Iran to Halt Widespread Human Rights Violations

November 19, 2018

Editor's Note: This resolution was passed December 17, 2018, with 84 voting for, 30 against and 67 in abstention: http://undocs.org/A/73/589/Add.3.  Serious Concern Expressed for Unlawful Executions and Arbitrary Detentions November 19, 2018 – With two more votes than the previous year, the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee appr...

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