Radio Farda | January 4, 2020 Iran Chess Federation on January 2 expelled veteran Iranian female chess grandmaster Mitra Hejazipour for boldly removing her scarf during the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship in Moscow which is considered as defiance of the compulsory Islamic dress code (hijab). “She has no place in the Islamic Republic’s…
Reuters | Reuters Staff | December 23, 2019 (Reuters) – After days of protests across Iran last month, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared impatient. Gathering his top security and government officials together, he issued an order: Do whatever it takes to stop them. That order, confirmed by three sources close to the supreme leader’s…
Radio Farda | Dec. 1, 2019 As the reported death toll form protests in Iran climbs higher, bringing widespread recriminations, some officials appear to be trying to contain the anger by walking back their earlier harsh statements. Some opposition websites, such as Kalemeh, have reported that over 150 protesters shot dead have been buried in only one…
Written by Amir Taghati on 30 August 2019 Iran’s regime hanged eight people ‘en masse’ on Wednesday, August 28 in Gohardasht (Raja’i Shahr) Prison in Karaj, north-west of the capital Tehran. The victims were identified as: Alireza Araei, Alireza Behrad, Manouchehr Dehghani, Ahmad Gharebalaei, Siavosh Inanlou, Reza Mousavi Baraghani, Ebrahim Yarmout Oghli and Mirzaei. They were transferred to…
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…
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…
