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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: 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 […]
Iran: Prisoner of conscience flogged 100 times for ‘drinking alcohol and insulting Islam’
Amnesty International 1 August 2019 The flogging of Kurdish singer and prisoner of conscience Peyman Mirzazadeh 100 times demonstrates the shocking brutality of Iran’s justice system, said Amnesty International. Peyman Mirzazadeh had been sentenced to two years in prison and 100 lashes after being convicted of “drinking alcohol” and “insulting Islamic sanctities”. The flogging was […]![Situation of human rights in Iran in Esfand 1397 [February – March 2019]](https://en.cshr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/04/3636-415x260.jpg)
Situation of human rights in Iran in Esfand 1397 [February – March 2019]
The Centre for the Defenders of Human Rights has reviewed the situation of human rights in Iran during the month of Esfand 1397 [February 2019 – March 2019] The appointment of a harsh judge with no knowledge of the science of law as the Head of Judiciary Power shows the political atmosphere is becoming […]
Iran: Release eight wildlife conservationists following unfair trial on trumped-up spying charges
Amnesty International, 5 March Wildlife conservationists in Iran who have been accused of espionage after using cameras to track endangered species could face the death penalty or more than a decade in prison, said Amnesty International, ahead of a verdict in their case in the coming days. The eight scientists, who are linked to the […]
Forty years of state lies: RSF unveils leaked Iranian justice file
RSF, February 7, 2019 No fewer than 860 journalists and citizen-journalists were prosecuted, arrested, imprisoned and in some cases executed in Iran between 1979 and 2009, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) revealed today on the basis of information in a leaked Iranian justice department digital file. As the Islamic Republic of Iran was marking the 40th […]
Iran: Labour rights activists at imminent risk of further torture
Amnesty International, 22 January 2019 Two labour rights activists who were rearrested after speaking out about beatings and other abuse they suffered in detention last year are at grave risk of further torture, Amnesty International has warned. Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh Gholian were violently arrested in Ahvaz, Khuzestan province, on 20 January in apparent reprisal for […]
