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23 Rights Organizations Urge UN to Take “Urgent Action” on Iran Protest Deaths
December 16, 2019 -- A coalition of international human rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran has called on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to launch an independent ...
EU Should Lead Calls for UN Commission of Inquiry Into Iran Protest Deaths
Foreign Policy Chief Urges Iran to Hold Perpetrators of Protest Deaths Accountable, Provide Detainees Due Process December 10, 2019 - The EU should lead calls for the UN to investigate Iranian state forces' use of lethal means to repress the country's mid-November 2019 protests which resulted in ...
Top UN Human Rights Official: “Clear Violations” of International Norms on Use of Force in Iran and “Serious” Human Rights Violations Against Protestors
The EU should lead calls for the UN to investigate the perpetrators of state repression in Iran that left at least 208 people dead amid nationwide protests ...
Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Speaks Out from Prison on Iran’s Brutality against Protestors
“There can only be one demand and that is the punishment of those responsible for the massacre of defenseless people. This must become a national call” “The state has shown that ...
Reports of Bystanders Killed by Security Forces Firing Indiscriminately at Protestors Grow
Young Man Killed by Bullet While Stuck in Traffic During Protest in Isfahan Reports of bystanders who were killed by security forces in Iran because they happened to be near protestors continue to ...
Family of Slain Bystander Warned: “We Will Dig Up the Body and Take It Away If You Speak to the Media”
Iran’s security officials have warned the family of Erfan Faeghi, a 21-year-old who died from a bullet wound to the heart on November 17 in south Tehran when he unintentionally drove near ...
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” As reports of the unprecedented state violence against protestors in Iran begin to emerge now that ...
Housewife Killed by Bullet to Neck While Helping Wounded Protestor, Family Forced To Pay to Take Body
Family Surrounded by Agents at Funeral, Warned to Keep Mourning Crowd Small An unarmed civilian and mother of three young children, Ameneh Shahbazi, was killed by a bullet as she was trying to ...
Shot to Heart Kills Protester in Security Forces’ Lethal Attacks Against Unarmed Civilians
Body Only Released to Family After They Pledge to “Bury Him Calmly” Hamid Rasouli, who died in the Golshahr district of Karaj, west of Tehran, on November 17, 2019, during the recent ...
University Helped Build Sham Court Case against Young Student Activist, Source Reveals
Parisa Rafiei Loses Her Last Legal Challenge to Seven-Year Sentence for Peaceful Protest Parisa Rafiei, the young student activist who recently lost her last chance to have her seven-year prison sentence reviewed ...
Iranian Government Dictated to Local Media How to Cover Protests, New Documents Reveal
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 ...
Stop Violence Against Women
Women and Girls in Iran Are Unprotected from Many Forms of Violence November 25 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women The UN states: “Violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations in our world today.” In ...
Initial Reports Show Thousands Arrested in Iran’s Crackdown on November Protests
*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 preliminary reports suggesting that thousands of people were arrested in the Iranian government’s crackdown on ...
EU Calls on Iran’s Security Forces to Exercise “Maximum Restraint” in Handling Protests
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 policy for the 28-country bloc, released a statement today, November 21, calling on ...
Six Conservationists Sentenced to Long Prison Terms in Iran After Two Years Behind Bars
Preliminary Sentences Range Between 6 and 10 Years, Two Still Awaiting Ruling No Evidence of Wrongdoing Ever Found *Update: Two conservationists were sentenced on November 23: Sam Rajabi was sentenced to six years in prison and Abdolreza Koohpayeh to four years. November 20, 2019 – Six of the ...
Lethal and Excessive Force Against Protestors in Iran Must Cease, News Blackout Must End
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 Center for Human Rights in Iran said in a statement today. ...
UN Calls on Iran to Avoid Force, Respect Right to Protest
State security forces have used violent and deadly force to repress protests that erupted in dozens of cities in Iran during the evening of November 15, 2019, after the government announced a sudden gasoline price hike. On November 19, ...
Aras Amiri Tried to Educate British People About Iranian Culture. Now She’s Serving a 10-Year Prison Sentence in Iran
Intelligence Ministry Bans Working for the British Council Without Legal Backing The family of Aras Amiri, a young Iranian woman who is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Iran because she worked for the ...
Legal Expert Says Sweden Has Authority to Prosecute Iranian Man Connected with 1988 Mass Executions
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 ...
Lawyer Protests Unjust Sentence by Refusing Sham Appeal Process, Demands Judicial Review
Imprisoned attorney Amirsalar Davoudi, the latest human rights attorney to be sentenced to a lengthy prison term in Iran for doing his job, is demanding a judicial review after refusing to ...
Widow of Detainee Who Died in Iranian Custody Recognizes Her Interrogator Posing as “Reporter” on State TV
IRIB Briefly Airs Pseudo-Documentary About Detained Conservationists Ahead of Verdict A man claiming to be a reporter in a pseudo-documentary about Iran’s detained conservationists that was aired by the state-controlled Islamic Republic of ...
Man Imprisoned for Protesting Compulsory Hijab Punished by New Evin Prison Director
Farhad Meysami at a protest in Tehran beside current political prisoner and human rights attorney, Nasrin Sotoudeh. Imprisoned civil rights activist Farhad Meysami was transferred from ...
Detained Kurdish Teacher Falsely Accused of Security Charges, Sister Says
Held Almost Six Months, Over Two Months Incommunicado, Even As Family Has Posted Bail Kurdish language teacher Zahra Mohammadi has been in detention in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan Province, ...
Kurdish Political Prisoner Held for 25+ Years Should be Freed Under Revised Penal Code, Says Lawyer
One of the longest-serving political prisoners in Iran, Mohammad Nazari, is eligible for release but is being arbitrarily denied freedom, Mohammad Hossein Aghasi told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Nazari, who is ...