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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: 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 […]
Iran is the world’s biggest jailer of women journalists
Reporters Without Borders, 26 August Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed by a new wave of arrests and interrogations of women journalists since the start of August in Iran. The Islamic Republic is now the world’s biggest jailer of women journalists, with a total of ten currently held. “Already one of the world’s five biggest […]
