Author Archive: editorfz
UN expert calls for “clear, unambiguous standards” to protect aircraft over conflict zones
Iran missile strike against Ukraine airliner 8 January 2020 GENEVA (7 January 2021) – On the occasion of the first-year anniversary of the strike against Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Flight PS752, which killed all 176 persons on board, a UN human rights expert has called for urgent measures to protect civilian aircraft flying in conflict […]
Iran: Internet deliberately shut down during November 2019 killings – new investigation
Amnesty International 16 November 2020, 00:01 UTC The Iranian authorities deliberately shut down the internet during nationwide protests in November 2019, hiding the true scale of unlawful killings by security forces, Amnesty International said today. On the anniversary of the deadliest day of the protests, Amnesty International is launching a new microsite, A web of […]
UN human rights experts call release of Iranian human rights defender a hopeful sign
GENEVA (14 October 2020) – Independent human rights experts* today welcomed the release of long-imprisoned Iranian woman human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, after an Iranian court made use of a new law to reduce her sentence. “We are encouraged that the decision of the Iranian judiciary has led to Ms. Mohammadi’s release after so many […]
Iran: Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh must be freed for treatment, say UN experts
GENEVA (25 September 2020) – UN independent experts expressed alarm at human rights lawyer and woman human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh’s return to Evin Prison in Iran this week despite her deteriorating health condition, and called for her immediate release. “It is unfathomable that the Iranian authorities would return Ms. Sotoudeh to prison where she […]
Iran: Detainees flogged, sexually abused and given electric shocks in gruesome post-protest crackdown – Amnesty International new report
Amnesty International, 2 September 2020, 00:00 UTC Iran’s police, intelligence and security forces, and prison officials have committed, with the complicity of judges and prosecutors, a catalogue of shocking human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment, against those detained in connection with the nationwide protests of November 2019, said Amnesty […]
Iran: Two Kurds executed amid increasing use of death penalty as weapon of repression
Amnesty International, 15 July 2020, 13:42 UTC There has been an alarming escalation in use of the death penalty against protesters, dissidents and members of minority groups in Iran, Amnesty International said today, following the executions on 13 July of two Kurdish men in Urumieh prison in West Azerbaijan province. Diaku Rasoulzadeh and Saber Sheikh […]
Parliament alone cannot stop honor killings in Iran
Leila Alikarami Jun 22, 2020 On the night of June 15, Reyhaneh Ameri, a 22-year-old Iranian woman living with her parents in the Kerman province of south-central Iran, came home late, enraging her father. Ameri was a young, fashionable woman who, like many her age, liked to go out and socialize, which included socializing with men. Her conservative father […]
Iran: Press freedom violations recounted in real time January 2020
Reporters Without Borders, 17.06.2020 Three journalists get jail terms ranging from 91 days to 7 years Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the systematic imposition of harsh jail sentences on journalists in Iran. Of the three latest victims, the longest sentence was given to Khosro Sadeghi Borjeni, a member of the Tehran Association of Independent Journalists, who was […]
Iran: Planned execution of man for rape must be stopped
Amnesty International, 17 June 2020, 18:43 UTC The Iranian authorities must immediately halt the planned execution of a man sentenced to death after being convicted for the rape of a child, Amnesty International said today. Farhad Salehi Jabehdar, 29, is scheduled to be executed in the Central Prison of Karaj in Alborz province this Saturday […]
