Author Archive: editorfz
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 […]
Iran: Details released of 304 deaths during protests six months after security forces’ killing spree
20 May 2020, 07:07 UTC Amnesty International has released details of the deaths of 304 men, women and children killed by Iran’s security forces during last November’s ruthless crackdown, six months after the protests. The organization found that more than 220 of the recorded deaths took place over just two days on 16 and 17 […]
US Economic Sanctions Harm Iranians’ Right to Health
Human Rights Watch, October 29, 2019 Summary In May 2018, the Trump administration formally withdrew from the international nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), agreed upon by the Obama administration in July 2015. Over the next 120 days, until November 5, 2018, the US government re-imposed all economic sanctions related […]
Beyond the Veil: Women in Iran continue to face discrimination
September 2019 PDF: Beyond the Veil: Discrimination Against Women in Iran in ENGLISH and PERSIAN The human rights environment for women in Iran continues to be characterized by inequality and exclusion in all areas of Iranian society, says a group of human rights organizations in a comprehensive new report. Beyond the Veil: Discrimination against women […]
