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Tag : Tehran

November 19, 2019

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 ...

November 17, 2019

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

Protesters in Shiraz. Numerous Unconfirmed Reports of Casualties, Injured After Protests Hit 50 Cities Protests that ...

November 11, 2019

Missing American’s Iran-Based Lawyer Reveals Previously Undisclosed Details in New Court Filing

Complaint: Authorities Should Investigate Last Known Person Who Saw Levinson Before His Disappearance, American Citizen Dawud Salahuddin No Mention of Statement or Findings by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Intelligence Organization in Case Files The Iran-based lawyer ...

October 29, 2019

Human Rights Watch: Sanctions Constrain Iranians’ Ability to Finance and Access Humanitarian Imports

U.S. Government Should Establish Viable Channel to Facilitate Permissible Trade to Iran Despite humanitarian exemptions, U.S. economic sanctions on Iran are causing “unnecessary ...

October 11, 2019

Iran Must Confront Its Child Protection Crisis

On the International Day of the Girl Child, All States Urged to Address Needs of Girl Children Child Marriage, Lack of Protection against Abuse, Juvenile Executions Key Issues in Iran October 11, 2019—On the International Day ...

October 9, 2019

Iranian Women Attend Football Match in Major Challenge to Stadium Ban, But Discriminatory Restrictions Persist

October 9, 2019 – Nearly four decades after women were banned from sports stadiums in Iran, a few thousand tickets were sold to female fans ahead of ...

July 19, 2019

Richard Ratcliffe: IRGC is Holding My Wife “Incommunicado” in a Psychiatric Ward

 Iranian Law Guarantees Prisoners Weekly Visits The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been denying Imprisoned Iranian-British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe all contact with the outside world since she was transferred to the ...

April 3, 2019

US, Iran and EU Must All Take Steps to Ensure International Aid Reaches Iran Floods Victims

US Sanctions and Iranian Mismanagement Preventing Critically Needed Aid April 4, 2019 –The US and EU should immediately take steps to ensure that Iran receives humanitarian ...

March 13, 2019

Widow of Dual National Who Died in Iranian Custody Sues Judiciary for Banning Her from Travel

The widow of an Iranian Canadian academic who died under suspicious circumstances in Tehran’s Evin Prison has sued a judicial ...

February 4, 2019

Tehran Art Exhibition Showcases Works by Acid Attack Survivors

Victims Face Social Stigma and Inadequate State Laws and Services “How many more victims should acid take until it’s banned, or ...

January 3, 2019

Open Letter: Mohammadi and Zaghari-Ratcliffe to Hunger Strike for Access to Medical Treatment

Will Take “Other Steps” if Authorities Continue to “Endanger” Their Health Political prisoners Narges Mohammadi and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe have written an open letter warning that they will go on hunger strike if the authorities continue ...

November 15, 2018

Banning Imprisoned Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh From Seeing Her Children is Cruel and Unlawful

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October 18, 2018

Imprisoned Activist Farhad Meysami “Kept Alive” With IV Drip

Farhad Meysami, an imprisoned civil rights activist, has lost “40 pounds” since beginning a wet ...

August 9, 2018

Local Authorities in Iran Say They Will Investigate Shooting Death of Protester in Karaj

A judicial investigation is underway in Iran to determine how 26-year-old shopkeeper Reza Otadi died from a bullet wound during a protest rally near Tehran ...

June 18, 2018

Sufi Prisoner Mohammad Salas Buried After Sudden Execution Without Family’s Permission

Lawyer: Burial Attended by “200 Anti-Riot Agents” Iranian authorities buried the body of Mohammad Salas after he was executed on June 18, ...

March 13, 2018

Iran: End Persecution of Families Seeking Truth and Justice For Detainees Who Died in Detention

JOINT PUBLIC STATEMENT 13 March 2018  The Iranian authorities should end their cruel campaign of harassment and intimidation against the families of detainees ...

March 10, 2018

Conservative Iranian Officials Outraged That Little Girls Were Allowed to Dance at Women’s Day Event

Iran’s ultra-conservative prosecutor general has demanded that the organizers of a Women’s Day event in the capital city ...

March 8, 2018

Seyed-Emami Family: Iran is “Trying to Prevent Us From Rebuilding Our Lives”

Upon arriving in Vancouver, Canada, on March 8, 2018, the sons of Kavous Seyed-Emami--the Iranian-Canadian academic who died in Tehran's ...

March 2, 2018

Journalist Confronts FIFA President Over Iran’s Ban on Women in Stadiums: “It’s Our Right”

FIFA ...

February 20, 2018

Tehran Police Open Fire on Sufi Gonabadi Protesters as Clashes Leave Several Dead

A protest by followers of Iran’s Muslim Sufi Gonabadi Order was attacked with police ...

February 14, 2018

Lawyer: IRGC Film of Seyed-Emami’s Prison Cell Does Not Show Act of Suicide

Film Shows Detainee Visibly Agitated Before Disappearing From Camera’s View A lawyer representing the family of Kavous Seyed-Emami, who died under ...

January 16, 2018

Tehran Prosecutor: “No Discussion” About Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Release Date

 Two day after a former senior British politician expressed ...

January 5, 2018

Iran Executes 19-Year-Old Charged as Juvenile in Violation of Two International Treaties

Ignoring pleas by international organizations and in violation of two international treaties, Iran ...

January 2, 2018

Iran’s Government Must End the Violence and Allow Peaceful Protest

January 2, 2018—The Iranian government and state security forces should immediately end their violent crackdown on the nationwide protests that have so far led to the deaths ...

January 2, 2018

Casualties and Arrests Mount As Iranian Protests Continue

At least 21 people have been killed and hundreds arrested since a wave of protests hit several Iranian cities on December ...

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