May 10, 2023

UN Human Rights Chief: Executions in Iran Must Stop

Ten People Being Put to Death Each Week, 209 Hangings Since January 1 UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk called on the authorities ...

May 8, 2023

Three Hangings in Three Days: The Islamic Republic Continues Its Killing Spree

Executions to Silence Dissent After Grossly Unfair Trials Increase in Iran Dissidents and Minorities Targeted, 42 People Executed in Last Ten Days May 8, 2023—The execution ...

April 27, 2022

Interview: Atena Daemi was Jailed in Iran for Advocating Women’s Rights. Now She’s Free and Refusing to be Silent

When Atena Daemi was growing up in Iran and attending school in a religious-conservative neighborhood in south Tehran, she noticed the many ways in which women were treated differently than men. Girls had to cover almost every inch ...

October 29, 2021

UN Expert: Death Penalty Used as a Political Tool in Iran

In a speech to the UN General Assembly for his fourth annual report, Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic ...

September 29, 2020

Witness to the Torture of Executed Champion Wrestler Navid Afkari Held Incommunicado

Shahin Naseri Transferred to Police Security Unit, Told Not to Testify in Court Witness States He Saw Afkari Being Severely Beaten with Metal Rod Shahin ...

September 14, 2020

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

Execution of Navid Afkari: “Imposed following a process that did not meet even the most basic…fair trial standards, behind a smokescreen of a ...

May 9, 2019

UN Calls on Iran to Stop Executing Juvenile Offenders

(9 May 2019) – UN human rights experts* called on Iran to immediately halt the practice of executing child offenders, citing ...

November 19, 2018

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

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 ...

November 7, 2018

Iran’s Corruption Courts Handing Out Death Sentences While Trampling on Rights to a Fair Trial

Five Death Sentence Issued in Preliminary Rulings, Two Upheld by Supreme Court November 7, 2018—Special courts set up by Iran’s judiciary and approved by ...

September 5, 2018

Execution of Kurdish Death-Row Prisoner More Likely, Prison Officer Says

Fears for Ramin Hossein Panahi Grow Despite Torture and Due Process Violation Concerns The execution of a Kurdish death-row prisoner has ...

June 28, 2018

UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Appalled by Execution of Juvenile Offenders in Iran

Zeid Raad Al Hussein is the high commissioner of the Office of the United Nations High ...

June 20, 2018

Iran: Stop Imminent Execution of Kurdish Prisoner, Investigate Evidence of Torture and Denial of Due Process

Fear Grows After Bus Driver Was Executed in Iran Despite Similar Concerns June 20, 2018—The Iranian judiciary should ...

May 2, 2018

UN Rights Expert Urges Iran to Halt Imminent Execution of Ramin Hossein Panahi

GENEVA (2 May 2018) – A UN human rights expert has urgently called on Iran to halt the death sentence against Iranian ...

April 19, 2018

UN Rights Experts Call on Iran to Annul Death Sentence Against Ramin Hossein Panahi

GENEVA (19 April 2018) – United Nations human rights experts* have called for Iran to annul the death sentence against an Iranian Kurdish prisoner, Ramin Hossein Panahi, amid serious concerns that he has not received ...

February 27, 2018

Iranian Criminal Court Sentenced Juvenile Offender to Death on Education Minister and MP’s Recommendation

Case Highlights Violations of Domestic and International Law and Judiciary’s Lack of Independence February 27, 2018–A young man who was incarcerated at 15 years ...

February 5, 2018

Iranian Hardline Cleric Says Protesters Should be Sentenced to Death

A Friday prayer leader in Tehran has called for the death penalty to be issued to citizens who participated in the ...

January 29, 2018

Iranian-Kurdish Activist Sentenced to Death Says He Was Wrongfully Convicted of Drawing a Weapon

Iranian-Kurdish political activist Ramin Hossein Panahi will appeal the death sentence he was issued on January 25, 2018, by ...

January 26, 2018

Detainees Arrested in Iranian Protests Facing Charges That Carry Death Penalty

Some detainees arrested in the protests that broke out in Iran’s Hamadan and Khuzestan provinces in December 2017 are ...

January 19, 2018

Man’s Hand Amputated as Punishment for Theft Conviction in Mashhad

A man’s hand was amputated with a guillotine on January 17, 2018, in Central Prison in the city of Mashhad, northeastern Iran, according ...

January 10, 2018

Iran Suspends Thousands of Drug-Related Death Sentences After Years of Domestic and International Campaigning

January 10, 2018--An estimated 4,000 prisoners currently on death row in Iran for drug-related crimes could have their death sentences revoked according to a just-issued judicial order ...

January 5, 2018