(Beirut, July 15, 2024) – Iranian authorities under the new president should halt their use of excessive and lethal force at the Iran-Iraq border against predominantly Kurdish border couriers, known as Kulbars, who…

The Kurdish community engaged in kulbari confronts significant obstacles in accessing human rights protections and living with dignity. This report scrutinizes the predicament of those within the Kurdish kulbar community, emphasizing…

These four videos highlight the long and arduous journey to hold those responsible for gross human rights violations under international law. The first video explains how the forgiveness for violators…

10 November 2023 Joint Statement: Bar Associations and International Lawyers’ Organisations Call for the Protection of Lawyers in Iran  NAZANIN SALARI,  MAHMOUD TARAVAT-RUY  MASOUD AHMADIAN The impending trial of Nazanin…

BRIEFINGS | 24 NOV 2022 This briefing examines how discrimination against minorities has contributed to rising tensions and long-standing grievances in Iran. It highlights patterns of repression of minority activism, languages and…

Iranian authorities agreed to temporarily release Keyvan Samimi, veteran journalist and human rights advocate, from prison on medical grounds, as announced by Samimi’s lawyer on February 1, 2022. Article 522 of the penal…

Minority Rights Group International (MRG), the Ceasefire Center for Civilian Rights and the Center for Supporters of Human Rights (CSHR) have submitted a written contribution ahead of the third Universal Periodic Review…

When a language disappears, the tradition, memories, and unique way of thinking of the people who speak it, disappears. A language disappears every fortnight according to UNESCO. Iran is a…

This is a short video report about a group of Yarsan refugees originally from western Iran and now residing under difficult circumstances in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.  Yarsan faith…

(Beirut) – Iran’s security forces repressing widespread protests have unlawfully killed, tortured, sexually assaulted, and disappeared children as part of a pattern of serious violations, Human Rights Watch said today. Iranian…

Anwar Khezri, Ayoub Karimi, Davoud Abdollahi, Farhad Salimi, Ghassem Abesteh, Kamran Sheikheh and Khosrow Basharat, all from Iran’s Kurdish Sunni minority, are at risk of execution at Raha’i Shahr prison,…