Prisoners of Conscience Attack For Protesting Prison Conditions

Iranian Sunni prisoners of conscience were attacked and beaten by Raja’i Shahr Prison guards in Karaj after protesting prison conditions and denial of medical treatment. Many were injured but are still in solitary confinement. Reports indicate that the prison guards beat the prisoners on 27 August, 2019, using electric shock and... Read More

Iran: Female Football Fan Dies After Setting Herself on Fire

Sahar Khodayari, a female Iranian football fan who set herself on fire, after being arrested for trying circumventing a law banning women in stadiums, in Tehran, has died from her injuries, causing widespread outrage. According to the state media reports, she died at hospital on Monday, September 9, after her self-immolation outside a... Read More

Iran: Haft Tappeh Labours and Activists Sentenced to Prison and Lashes

Tehran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced seven labour activists to a total of 117 years in prison and 74 lashes over Haft Tappeh Sugarcane workers’ protests last November in the south-western city of Shush. They were charged with “Gathering and collusion to act against national security”, “Membership in the Gam” (a... Read More

Eight Prisoners Executed in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj

According to Human Rights News Agency, in the morning of 28 August, at least eight prisoners were executed in Rajai Shahr prison. These prisoners were transferred to solidarity confinement cells in Rajai Shahr prison to get prepared for execution, on 27 August. The status of Ali Gharaghaloui, the prisoner of ward 10 of Rajai Shahr... Read More

Iran: Young Man Tortured to Death in Prison

Iranian authorities tortured a young man identified as Javad Khosravanian to death in Fars Province, southwest Iran a few days ago. The security forces picked up Javad Khosravanian from his home in Khorrambid of Fars Province on Friday, 30 August, 2019. He was then taken to a criminal investigation department in the city where he was... Read More

Iran New Hijab Enforcement Plan starts To Suppress Women

Iran has started a new Hijab plan to further step up suppression of women for improper veiling across the country. According to Ayyoub Soleimani, the deputy police chief, new wave Branded as “Watch 2”, will be enforced from 1 September. The new plan is designed to put maximum pressure on women.  According to the new plan, Police... Read More

Iran: Sentences Labor Activist to prison and lashes

A court in Tehran has sentenced labor rights activist Atefeh Rangriz, to 11 years and six months in jail and 74 lashes. Atefeh Rangriz, a researcher held at Qarchak Prisn in Varamin, was arrested during a peaceful International Workers’ Day gathering in Tehran on 1 May, 2019. Atefeh Rangriz stood trial on 5 August, 2019, and the... Read More

Iran: 10 Sugarcane Workers Sentenced to Lashes For Protests

According to the news, Nine workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Factory in the south-western city of Shush were sentenced to eight months of prison and 30 lashes each. The sentences issued by the Branch 102 of the Shush Criminal Court. Ten workers were tried and nine of them were sentenced to prison and lashes and the last one was... Read More

Social Activist Sentenced To 24 Years Imprisonment for Protesting Compulsory Hijab

ran sentenced Saba Kord Afshari, a civil activist to 24 years behind bars of which she will serve 15 for protesting compulsory veiling. Saba Kord Afshari was tried on 19 August, 2019, and was charged with “spreading corruption and prostitution by taking off her hijab and walking without a veil,” “Propaganda against the state,”... Read More

Amnesty International Urges World to Protest Treatment of Arash Sadeghi

Amnesty International is urging people all over the world to protest the torture of a critically ill cancer patient and political prisoner being held in Rajai Shahr prison, in Karaj. Arash Sadeghi, a human right defender, is being tortured by the Iranian authorities because they are purposefully denying him access to cancer treatment and... Read More

Farangis Mazloumi, mother of Soheil Arabi held incommunicado

Evin Prison’s authorities have banned all outside communications to family and friends of Farangis Mazloumi. Ms. Farangis Mazloumi had telephone calls with her family every Saturday. But unlike the routine process of the last three weeks, this week she was not allowed to make the telephone call. Prison authorities have issued a 300... Read More

Iran: More than 10 Arrested For Calling on Supreme Leader to Resign

The Iranian regime on 11 August, 2019, arrested Hashem Khastar, a teacher’s representative and a number of others who signed a letter asking for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to resign. They had gathered in front of a court in the north-eastern city of Mashhad to support another individual who has called on Khamenei to step down and pave... Read More

IRGC Continues Arbitrary Killing of Kurdish Porters

Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) have opened fire on porters, killing and wounding them. The security forces on Saturday, 19 August, opened fire on a group of porters (known as “Kolbar”), killing a young man, Reza Ebrahimi, and wounded another one. It should be mentioned that a young porter was shot and injured on Friday by the border... Read More

Iran: Two killed, Four Wounded Due As Air Force Guards Attack Protesters

At least two people were killed, and four others wounded after an army air force in the northern Mazendran province opened fire on locals protesting attempts to confiscate their lands. The Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) news agency, Fars, quoted local sources as saying that the clash started over a dispute about land ownership in the... Read More