ArticleEighteen | July 8, 2019 Eight converts to Christianity, including five members of one family, were arrested in the southwestern city of Bushehr on Monday, 1 July. The arresting officers introduced themselves as agents from the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS). They stormed the Christians’ homes in a coordinated operation at around 9am, confiscating Bibles, Christian…
Amnesty International | June 26, 2019 The Iranian authorities are systematically violating the absolute prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment by cruel practices targeting family members of the thousands of prisoners who were forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed in prisons across Iran in 1988, said Amnesty International on the occasion of the International Day in…
Christian Headlines | Amanda Casanova | May 29, 2019 Intelligence agents in Iran have forced an Assyrian Christian church to close its doors. According to the Assyrian International News Agency, agents “stormed” the 100-year-old Presbyterian church on May 9, changed the locks and removed the cross from the church tower. “They made it clear that the…
Iran Human Rights | May 17, 2019 Iran Human Rights (IHR); May 16, 2019: Mohammad Reza Haddadi, a juvenile offender on death row in Iran, has been denied access to medical care outside prison despite suffering from severe intestinal bleeding. According to IHR sources, Mohammad Reza Haddadi, a prisoner on death row in Shiraz Central…
By Iran Human Rights | April 29, 2019 According to IHR sources, on the morning of April 28, 2019, a man hanged at Kerman Central Prison on drug charges. Baluchi Activists Campaign revealed the prisoner’s name as Mohammad Bameri, 24, from Dalgan county of Sistan and Baluchistan province. Baluchi activist Habibollah Sarbazi told IHR, “He…
By Hollie McKay | Fox News | November 5, 2018 As the full slate of Trump administration-imposed sanctions on Iran snapped back into effect on Monday, a number of Iranian women continue their opposition to the regime as the only way to bring about change – even if it means being labeled a terrorist. “The regime…
Reuters | John Irish | March 25, 2019 PARIS (Reuters) – France has banned flights in and out of the country by Iran’s Mahan Air, accusing it of transporting military equipment and personnel to Syria and other Middle East war zones, diplomats said on Monday, after heavy U.S. pressure on Paris to act. The decision…
Amnesty International’s written statement to the 40th session of the Human Rights Council (25 February – 22 March 2019) AI Index: MDE 13/9828/2019 – 11 February 2019 Amnesty International urges all states to renew and support the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, and urges the Iranian authorities…
BRET STEPHENS – The New York Times – Thursday, February 14, 2019 From its beginning 40 years ago this week, the Islamic Republic of Iran has enjoyed the generous benefit of the doubt from credulous observers in the West. History hasn’t been kind to their sympathy. “The depiction of him as fanatical, reactionary and the…
Amnesty International | 24 January 2019 The Iranian authorities carried out a shameless campaign of repression during 2018, crushing protests and arresting thousands in a wide-scale crackdown on dissent, said Amnesty International, a year after a wave of protests against poverty, corruption and authoritarianism erupted across the country. The organization has today revealed staggering new…
