A man who sold Iranians access cards for satellite television has been sentenced to death for “corruption on earth” the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. In his verdict issued July 12, 2018, Judge Pour-Rezaei (first name unknown) of Branch 2 of ...
Beheshti Warns of Further Uprisings as Officials Continue to Ignore People’s Demands Prominent Iranian teachers’ rights activist Mahmoud Beheshti has been on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin Prison since July 10, 2018, to protest the judiciary’s refusal to review his case and the ...
The number of students being prosecuted for allegedly joining Iran’s December 2017/January 2018 protests is much higher than earlier estimates according to a well-known reformist lawmaker. “A list has been put together of the students detained in the December 2017 incidents and they number more than 150,” ...
Police in the Iranian city of Kazeroon have admitted killing a farmer at a local protest against water resources in the region. “After several warnings to the crowd to disperse, the police opened fire into the air with pellet guns ...
A courtroom in Iran. A man identified by local media as “M. R.” was publicly flogged 80 times in the Iranian city of Kashmar on July 10, 2018, for allegedly drinking alcohol as a teenager at a wedding 12 years earlier. ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh: “Women Have Decided to Rule Over Their Own Bodies” Prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has written a stinging letter to the Tehran prosecutor condemning the sentence issued against one of her clients who was arrested for peacefully protesting Iran’s ...
Several ethnic rights activists detained at an annual celebration at Babak Fort in Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province required medical attention after being violently interrogated. “All of the 20 people so far have been released from the [Intelligence Ministry’s] detention ...
IRIB Defends Decision to Air Clips of Teenagers Detained For Expressing Themselves Online An Iranian charity for children has condemned Iran’s state-run broadcasting organization for airing the “confessions” of teenage girls and boys who had been arrested by the police and ...
July 12, 2018--During a speech in March 2018, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed that no one in Iran is imprisoned for their thoughts, expressions, or personal choices. That’s not true. ...
The location of detained Baluchi ethnic rights activist Abdollah Bozorgzadeh remains unknown three weeks after he was detained in the Iranian city of Iranshahr in Sistan and Baluchistan Province. Bozorgzadeh was taken into custody on June 17, 2018, during a rally to protest the ...
Attorney Hossein Ahmadiniaz, the defense counsel in several cases involving human and political rights in Iran, has been summoned by Branch 4 of the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province. On June 9, 2018, Ahmadiniaz was one of several Iranian lawyers who ...
Iran is one of world’s few countries executing juveniles; dozens currently on death row July 10, 2018—The execution of 19-year-old Chezani Sharahi by hanging in Iran’s Central Prison in the city of Qom on June 27, 2018, highlights the Iranian Judiciary’s complete disregard for children’s ...
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