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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 ...

Housewife Killed by Bullet to Neck While Helping Wounded Protestor, Family Forced To Pay to Take Body

Housewife Killed by Bullet to Neck While Helping Wounded Protestor, Family Forced To Pay to Take Body

December 2, 2019

Family Surrounded by Agents at Funeral, Warned to Keep Mourning Crowd Small An unarmed civilian and mother of three young ...

Shot to Heart Kills Protester in Security Forces’ Lethal Attacks Against Unarmed Civilians

Shot to Heart Kills Protester in Security Forces’ Lethal Attacks Against Unarmed Civilians

December 2, 2019

Body Only Released to Family After They Pledge to “Bury Him Calmly” Hamid Rasouli, who died in the Golshahr district ...

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 ...

“We Know Where You Live,” Iran Goes After Foreign-based Reporters

“We Know Where You Live,” Iran Goes After Foreign-based Reporters

November 26, 2019

Campaign of Intimidation Against Families of Journalists Intensifies in Wake of Protests Intelligence Agents Tell Families Reporters Will ...

University Helped Build Sham Court Case against Young Student Activist, Source Reveals

University Helped Build Sham Court Case against Young Student Activist, Source Reveals

November 26, 2019

 Parisa Rafiei Loses Her Last Legal Challenge to Seven-Year Sentence for Peaceful Protest Parisa Rafiei, the young ...

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 ...

Initial Reports Show Thousands Arrested in Iran’s Crackdown on November Protests

Initial Reports Show Thousands Arrested in Iran’s Crackdown on November Protests

November 22, 2019

*This article was updated with additional details on November 25. Early Tally Indicates at Least 4,000 Arrests as Concerns Mount for Detainees Smeared by State Media as “Rioters” In the wake of ...

UN Raises Alarm at Arrests and Reported Killings, Internet Shutdown

UN Raises Alarm at Arrests and Reported Killings, Internet Shutdown

November 22, 2019

Javaid Rehman, the special rapporteur on the human ...

State-Developed VPN Would Determine Iranians’ Internet Access Based on Their Job

State-Developed VPN Would Determine Iranians’ Internet Access Based on Their Job

November 21, 2019

Hamid Fattahi, the CEO of the state-owned Telecommunication Infrastructure Company (TIC), the ...

EU Calls on Iran’s Security Forces to Exercise “Maximum Restraint” in Handling Protests

EU Calls on Iran’s Security Forces to Exercise “Maximum Restraint” in Handling Protests

November 21, 2019

Violence “Unacceptable,” Free Flow of Information Must Be Ensured The European Union’s External Action Committee, which manages the EU's diplomatic relations with other countries and conducts EU foreign and security ...

Children in Iran Should Be Protected from Numerous Rights Violations

Children in Iran Should Be Protected from Numerous Rights Violations

November 20, 2019

The age of criminal responsibility in Iran is 9 for girls and 15 for boys, despite international law that defines anyone under age 18 as a child ...

Lethal and Excessive Force Against Protestors in Iran Must Cease, News Blackout Must End

Lethal and Excessive Force Against Protestors in Iran Must Cease, News Blackout Must End

November 19, 2019

November 19, 2019—The authorities’ use of excessive force against protestors in Iran, which has included the use of live ammunition and has resulted in dozens of deaths, is a blatant and unjustifiable violation of international law and must cease, the ...

UN Calls on Iran to Avoid Force, Respect Right to Protest

UN Calls on Iran to Avoid Force, Respect Right to Protest

November 19, 2019

State security forces have used violent and deadly force to repress protests that erupted in dozens of cities in Iran during the evening ...

Officials Confirm One Death After Protests Erupt in Iran After Sudden Fuel Price Hike

Officials Confirm One Death After Protests Erupt in Iran After Sudden Fuel Price Hike

November 17, 2019

Protesters in Shiraz. Numerous Unconfirmed Reports of Casualties, Injured After ...

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 ...

Lawyer Protests Unjust Sentence by Refusing Sham Appeal Process, Demands Judicial Review

Lawyer Protests Unjust Sentence by Refusing Sham Appeal Process, Demands Judicial Review

November 16, 2019

Imprisoned attorney Amirsalar Davoudi, the latest human rights attorney to be sentenced to a lengthy prison ...

Promote Respect for All on the International Day for Tolerance

Promote Respect for All on the International Day for Tolerance

November 16, 2019

November 16 Marks the International Day for Tolerance The International Day for Tolerance, declared by UNESCO in 1995, ...

Honor Student Barred from Completing Graduate Studies Because of His Religious Faith

Honor Student Barred from Completing Graduate Studies Because of His Religious Faith

November 15, 2019

Member of Yarasan Religious Minority is Expelled from Razi University in Iran Siavash Hayati, spokesman for the minority ...

Man Imprisoned for Protesting Compulsory Hijab Punished by New Evin Prison Director

Man Imprisoned for Protesting Compulsory Hijab Punished by New Evin Prison Director

November 12, 2019

Farhad Meysami at a protest in Tehran beside current political ...

Detained Kurdish Teacher Falsely Accused of Security Charges, Sister Says

Detained Kurdish Teacher Falsely Accused of Security Charges, Sister Says

November 12, 2019

Held Almost Six Months, Over Two Months Incommunicado, Even As Family Has Posted Bail Kurdish language teacher ...

Conservationists Slapped with New Charge 22 Months After Being Arrested by Revolutionary Guards

Conservationists Slapped with New Charge 22 Months After Being Arrested by Revolutionary Guards

November 7, 2019

Fate of Detainees Unclear Despite Intervention by Supreme Leader Nearly two years after they were first detained in Tehran, eight conservationists have been charged with “cooperation with U.S. and Israeli enemy states against the Islamic ...

Imprisoned Sufi Dervishes Launch Hunger Strike Demanding Freedom of Movement for Ailing Spiritual Leader

Imprisoned Sufi Dervishes Launch Hunger Strike Demanding Freedom of Movement for Ailing Spiritual Leader

November 6, 2019

More than 70 imprisoned members of the Sufi Gonabadi Order began a hunger strike in early November to honor their ailing spiritual leader Nour-Ali Tabandeh, who had been ...

Former Political Prisoner Arrested at “Cyrus Day” Celebration

Former Political Prisoner Arrested at “Cyrus Day” Celebration

November 4, 2019

The tomb of Cyrus the Great, a UNESCO protected world ...

Iran Releases Seven Political Prisoners on Bail Without Explanation

Iran Releases Seven Political Prisoners on Bail Without Explanation

October 28, 2019

Six Prisoners Posted Extraordinarily High Bail, Unclear Why Fellow Prisoners of Conscience Remain Jailed A Christian ...

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