Swedish-Iranian academic Ahmad Reza Jalali Faces Imminent Execution

International Liberty Association: Swedish-Iranian academic Ahmad Reza Jalali Faces Imminent Execution.According to the wife of Iranian-Swedish scientist Ahmad Reza Jalali who has been sentenced to death in Iran for alleged espionage, Ahmad Reza Jalali is going to be taken to Rajaie Shahr Prison for execution. The medical doctor has... Read More

Iran: Continuing to Pressure Dissent University Students

International Liberty Association: Iranian security forces on Monday, 23 November, arrested Elham Samimi, a student at Tehran University.The security forces had previously inspected her home on 16 October and confiscated her personal belonging and those of her guests and relatives.Elham Samimi is a student of anthropology at Tehran... Read More

Kurdish activist educator arrested in Kermanshah

International Liberty Association: Anisa Jafari-Mehr, a Kurdish activist educator was arrested in the city of Eslamabad-e Gharb, in Kermanshah Province, western Iran.According to the news published on 23 November 2020, intelligence agents raided and ransacked the residence of this Kurdish activist educator without presenting a legal... Read More

Iran: Security forces raid up to More Than 30 Baha’i homes

International Liberty Association: Security forces raided the homes of more than 30 Baha’i citizens in at least 4 provinces today and confiscated their personal belongings.According to the human right defenders, the houses searched were in Tehran, Alborz near the capital, Isfahan in central, and the northern province of Mazandaran.... Read More

World Children’s Day Means Nothing for Children in Iran Who Enjoy Zero Rights

International Liberty Association: The United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child on November 20, 1989, to underline the importance of recognition of the rights of children.This international convention lists the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of children which need to be recognized. The... Read More

Zeinab Jalalian’s fourth relocation in six months: Yazd

International Liberty Association: Zeinab Jalalian taken to Yazd Prison; this is her fourth relocation in only six months.In a phone call to her family, Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian said she had been transferred to the Prison of Yazd, in central Iran. She made the two-minute phone call to her family on 10 November 2020.Ms.... Read More

Kurdish Mother and her Teenage girl sentenced to imprisonment

International Liberty Association: Teenage Kurdish girl Aynaz Zare’e has been sentenced to five years in prison. The First Branch of the Penal Court of Urmia which specially examines cases of teenagers and minors, sentenced Aynaz Zare’e, 17, to five years in prison on Monday, 16 November 2020. The teenage Kurdish girl Aynaz... Read More

New Wave of Arrests to Fend off Iran Protests

International Liberty Association: According to the reports from Iran, the Intelligence Ministry of Iran has launched a new wave of arrests in Iran to fend off the outbreak of a spate of protests.A number of political prisoners were re-arrested or summoned over the past couple of weeks. One of those arrested is a young man suffering from... Read More

Student Activist Sentenced for Attending November Protests 2019

International Liberty Association: Marjan Es’haghi, student activist, a student of political sciences at Tehran University, received a total of five years’ imprisonment for participating in the November 2019 protests.The Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced Marjan Es’haghi to 1 year in prison and 4 years of... Read More

Javaid Rehman, Special Rapporteur: The situation of human rights in Iran

International Liberty Association: This is a report on the “Statement by Javaid Rehman, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, at the 75th session of the General Assembly - Item 72(c)” In his latest report, Javid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, mentioning the use of torture and... Read More

Tehran University Student Activist Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison

International Liberty Association: Student activist Soha Mortezaei was sentenced to six year in prison for holding a solitary sit-in outside Tehran University in protest to being banned from education for her activities.The verdict which has been announced to Mortezaei’s lawyer has been issued by notorious Judge Abolqasem Salavati of... Read More

Citing COVID risk, Bachelet calls on Iran to release jailed human rights defenders

International Liberty Association: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet expressed her concern at the deteriorating situation of human rights and political prisoners held in Iran’s prisons. The following is highlight of her speech from ohchr.org website:Geneva – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle... Read More

Iran: Supreme Court Refuses to Grant Saba Kord Afshari a Retrial

International Liberty Association: The Branch 28 of Iran’s Supreme Court has rejected a request for a retrial by Civil Activist prisoner Saab Kord Afshari’s lawyers. Kord Afshari received a 15-year prison sentence, which was first reduced in the Court of Appeals but then again surprisingly added to her prison term in May 2020.... Read More

Ahmad Shahid: The Research and Interviews Provide a Deeply Disturbing Picture of The Human Rights Situation in Iran

International Liberty Association: The meeting of the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly on Iran was held in New York on Wednesday afternoon (October 24 / November 3).Ahmad Shahid began his report to the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly with sympathy for the victims of the earthquake in Azerbaijan and then expressed his... Read More