Plea from Death-Row Prisoners in Iran’s Qezel Hesar Prison
Prisoners Will Endure Collective Hunger Strike Each Tuesday In an urgent, open letter appeal, a group of political and non-political prisoners facing death sentences ...
Tag : Executions in Iran
January 29, 2024
Urgent Appeal: Civil Society Groups Implore UN Official to Postpone Iran Visit
Amid Escalating Executions and Rights Violations, Trip Risks Being Exploited as State Propaganda January 29, 2024 – A coalition of international human rights organizations, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), today implored UN Deputy High Commissioner for ...
January 27, 2024
UN Official Urged to Postpone Trip to Iran
Visiting Before Release of UN Fact-Finding Mission’s First Report on State Atrocities Detrimental to Mandate Islamic Republic Has Refused to Cooperate with Fact-Finding Mission, Would ...
January 23, 2024
Street Protester Mohammad Ghobadlou Hanged in Iran Amid State-Sanctioned Killing Spree
January 23, 2024 — The execution today of 23-year-old street protester Mohammad Ghobadlou is a stark reminder of the Islamic ...
January 18, 2024
Urgent Appeal to Halt Imminent Execution of Four Ethnic Kurds in Iran
Death Sentences Confirmed Within 24 Hours of Secret Trial, 18 Months of Incognito Detention Denied Independent Counsel and Right to Appeal Court Ruling January 18, 2024 – In the midst of a surge in executions in Iran, four ethnic Kurds ...
December 1, 2023
Urgent International Action Needed Against Escalating Political Executions in Iran
One Child, and at Least Six Political Prisoners Hanged This Week December 1, 2023 – The surging executions of political prisoners in Iran ...
August 2, 2023
Political Executions Surge in Iran as Government Seeks to Silence All Dissent
Young Men Are Hanged without Due Process or Fair Trials August 2, 2023 – Politically motivated executions are increasing dramatically in Iran, with at least 17 mostly young men hung in blatantly unlawful prosecutions over the last 10 months. The ...
July 5, 2023
Fact-Finding Mission Calls on Iran to Stop Executing Protesters, Release Political Prisoners
The independent, international Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) on the Islamic Republic of Iran today provided its first ...
May 30, 2023
Leading Iranian Lawyers Urge UN to Address Illegal Use of Death Penalty
In light of the escalating number of illegal executions in Iran, a group of leading Iranian human rights lawyers have penned ...
May 24, 2023
World Leaders Urged to Radically Increase Pressure on Iran to Cease Executions
Islamic Republic Is Severely Violating International Laws Governing Death Penalty Protesters Hanged After Sham Trials, Minorities Targeted for Capital ...
May 20, 2023
UN Human Rights Council Fact-Finding Mission on Iran Condemns Surging Executions
UN Photo Press briefing by Mr. Javaid Rehman, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic ...
March 13, 2023
Another Abducted Dissident Sentenced to Death in Iran
Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence Against Habib Farajollah Chaab After Show Trial Three Foreign Dissidents Have Been Abducted and Sentenced to Death in ...
February 21, 2023
Iran Sentences German Citizen to Death to Intimidate Iranian Diaspora, German Government
Jamshid Sharmahd Was Abducted by Islamic Republic Agents, Tortured and Denied Due Process February 21, 2023 – The death ...
February 8, 2023
Analysis: Khamenei’s “Pardon” Is a Public Relations Stunt That Cedes No Ground to the Protesters
Previous Pardons Have Not Been Followed by Actual Prisoner Releases Detained Protesters Assumed Guilty, Must “Apologize” First February 8, 2023 - The announced pardons ...
January 7, 2023
Two More Men Executed in Iran in Connection with Protests, Others at Imminent Risk
World Leaders Should Withdraw Ambassadors, Demand Moratorium on Executions January 7, 2023 – The hanging in Iran today of two ...
January 4, 2023
Iranian Athletes Killed, Tortured, Sentenced to Death for Supporting Protests (Updated)
Editor's Note: This article is regularly updated with new information. January 4, 2023 – The Islamic Republic’s persecution of athletes for peacefully supporting ...
December 15, 2022
Iran’s Courts Using Death Penalty Charges to Crush Protests
At Least 11 Sentenced to Death and 24 Others Facing Charges that Could Carry Death Penalty December 15, 2022 – At ...
August 26, 2021
Analysis: Falsehoods and Contradictions in the Rulings against the Afkari Brothers
Lawyer: The Ruling against Vahid Afkari had “24 Contradictions and 3 Lies” Despite Inconsistencies and Torture, Supreme Court Refuses to Review 25-year Prison ...
July 3, 2020
UN Condemns Iran’s Secret Execution of Kurdish Political Prisoner
“I will pay the price of freedom with my life so that my memory stays ...
March 7, 2019
Iran Appoints Human Rights Violator Ebrahim Raisi to Chief Justice
The appointment of Ebrahim Raisi, who participated in “death commissions” that ordered the extrajudicial executions of thousands of prisoners in Iran in 1988, as Iran’s next head of the judiciary, represents a complete repudiation of the rule of law and a reward for those involved ...
March 1, 2019
Lawyer of Juvenile Offender on Death Row Says Client Mohammad Kalhori Should be Pardoned
Despite being diagnosed with mental and emotional disorders, Mohammad Kalhori is facing imminent execution ...
February 27, 2019
New UN Report on Iran Notes Decline in Executions, Ongoing Executions of Child Offenders
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October 9, 2018
Three People Sentenced to Death in Iran as 32 Others Issued Harsh Sentences For Alleged Currency Hoarding
Unnamed “special courts for economic crimes” in Iran have sentenced three people to death and condemned 32 others to long prison ...
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 ...
August 16, 2018
Kurdish Death Row Prisoner Transferred to Different Prison, Raising Fears He Could be Executed
A Kurdish man who has been sentenced to death in Iran despite serious concerns about how his case was handled has ...