80 year old Iranian woman lashed and detained despite injuries
An 80 year old woman was flogged in the Khoy Judiciary in northwestern Iran and was then immediately taken to prison despite her poor condition, a Kurdish human rights group said. Salbi Marandi was lashed 70 times and was unable to move after the flogging sentence was carried out on November 28. She was taken to Khoy prison to serve her... Read More
Iran: IRGC forces massacre protesters hiding in marsh in Mahshahr
The Iran IRGC forces opened fire on a group of protesters in the marshlands of Mahshahr in the southwest Khuzestan Province. The reports from the city come after Iran lifted an almost complete internet blackout which the authorities implemented to hide the scope of their brutal crackdown on protests. The internet is still off in... Read More
A Mother Killed by Bullet to Neck While Helping Wounded Protester
International Liberty Association reports from human rights organisation that: “An unarmed civilian and mother of three young children, Ameneh Shahbazi, was killed by a bullet as she was trying to help a person shot in the leg during a protest, her brother, Mohammad Shahbazi, said in an interview. Her death certificate indicated that... Read More
Iran: Interior Minister demands airing forced confessions of protesters
International Liberty Association: Iran Interior Minister ordered the broadcast of forced “confessions” of recently arrested protesters in Iran. Speaking to the state-run Channel One TV on November 26, the Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli insisted that those arrested should confess on TV to what they have done during the... Read More
Iran: Detained protesters under torture to make false confessions
International Liberty Association: According to human rights news agencies, detained Iranian protesters in several prisons across Iran are under torture to make false confessions against themselves. Around 420 protesters, detained in Tehran and Alborz province, have been transferred to Ward 8 of Rajai Shahr Prison, in Karaj, where is... Read More
Death toll of Iran protests exceeds 300
International Liberty Association: According to the latest reports from Iran, the death toll from recent protests on petrol price has reached to 300. Although there is almost a full internet blackout in Iran, that limits the number of reports on media, but a violent government crackdown and civilian deaths are clear in scattered... Read More
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee Arrested by Security Forces
ILA: Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee International Liberty Association: Civil rights activist Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee was re-arrested by Iran security forces in her Tehran home, on Saturday 9 November. Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, former prisoner, is the wife of Arash Sadegh, political prisoner who has got cancer inside the prison. According to ILA... Read More
Iran: Three Baha’is Sentenced to 20 Years Prison
Ardeshir Fanaian, Yalda Firouzian and Behnam Eskandarian The Revolutionary Court of Semnan Province has sentenced three members of the Baha’i religious minority to a total of 20 years in jail on national security charges. The Baha’is, Ardeshir Fanaian, Yalda Firouzian and Behnam Eskandarian, has been charged with “acting against... Read More
Iran: Executed Young Man Sentenced as Juvenile
Authorities in the central prison of Karaj executed a prisoner for a murder he allegedly committed when he was 16. The authorities executed 21-year-old, Saeed Mohammadi, on Friday, 25 October. Iran is one of only four countries known to have executed child offenders since 2013. Iran carries out the death penalty on children... Read More
Iran: A juvenile offender was saved from execution
A juvenile offender, who was arrested with a murder charge at the age of 16, was spared from gallows with consent of the next of kin after spending five years in prison in the city of Faryab. He was released on 15 July, 2019. He murdered a young boy in a fight after losing the control over his anger in 2014. The head of justice... Read More
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Daughter Back to School
International Liberty Association: “Hoping for Nazanin's release and embracing her beloved daughter. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman imprisoned in Tehran on espionage charges, and was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment, in 2016. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab described the letter as "heart-breaking" and said Mrs... 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
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
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