Two Kurdish men, Houshmand Alipour and Mohammad Ostad-Ghader, have been held incommunicado inside Iran’s Intelligence Ministry detention center in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, since they were arrested on August 3, 2018, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. “Protests in Kurdistan [Province] have been ...
Mobile Billboard with Photos of Iran’s Political Prisoners to Circle UN Headquarters During Meetings September 19, 2018—As President Hassan Rouhani comes to NY to attend the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urges the international community to directly address ...
After a mass strike by Kurdish merchants in western Iran on September 12, 2018, Iranian security forces arrested several civil rights activists in the region, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. The strikers closed their shops in protest against ...
All Three Cases Rife with Denial of Due Process and Evidence of Torture and Forced Confessions September 10, 2018—Iran’s execution of three Kurdish prisoners, Ramin Hossein Panahi (22), Zanyar Moradi (29) and Loghman Moradi (31) at dawn on September ...
Fears for Ramin Hossein Panahi Grow Despite Torture and Due Process Violation Concerns The execution of a Kurdish death-row prisoner has become more likely, despite credible questions regarding violations of due process in his case, torture and other rights violations. An ...
Ramin Hossein Panahi, a Kurdish man in danger of imminent execution in Iran, has sewn his lips shut to protest the denial of his rights by prison authorities. “Unfortunately, our client has sewn his lips… and started a hunger ...
Detainees Held For Six Months Without Access to Counsel The families of environmentalists who have been detained in Iran for the past six months—many in solitary confinement and without counsel—have sent a letter to the three heads of state advocating for the detainees’ release. “It ...
Relatives of Ramin Hossein Panahi, a Kurdish man on death row in Iran, have raised concerns that his chances of imminent execution have increased since several soldiers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in late July ...
A man who sold Iranians access cards for satellite television has been sentenced to death for “corruption on earth” the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. In his verdict issued July 12, 2018, Judge Pour-Rezaei (first name unknown) of Branch ...
Iran is one of world’s few countries executing juveniles; dozens currently on death row July 10, 2018—The execution of 19-year-old Chezani Sharahi by hanging in Iran’s Central Prison in the city of Qom on June 27, 2018, highlights the Iranian Judiciary’s complete disregard for children’s ...
Photo: Ramin Hossein Panahi has been transferred to an unknown location possibly to face execution. The authorities of Iran’s Sanandaj Central Prison led 24-year-old Kurdish death row prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi to believe that he would soon be executed by initiating several procedures ...
Abolfazl Chezani Sharahi, 19, was hanged in Iran’s Central Prison in the city of Qom on June 27, 2018, despite serious concerns about how his case was handled, a source with knowledge about his case told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Sharahi ...
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