Tag Archive: Iran Protests

International Liberty Association: Ardabil appeal court in Iran has upheld prison and flogging sentences against two Azerbaijani Turkic activists.The Branch 10 of Ardabil Court of Appeal has upheld a total of eight months in prison and 40 lashes against Meysam Jolani and Ali Khairjou. Their trial, presided over by Judge Sajjad Habibi,... Read More

International Liberty Association: Casual teachers of Zanjan Province who had been dismissed from their jobs, held a protest on 11 October 2020. They protested the situation of their employment and livelihood. The dismissed casual teachers gathering outside the Department of Education of Zanjan Province. One month past the reopening... Read More

Afkari Brothers International Liberty Association: A revolutionary court in Shiraz has sentenced three brothers to death, lashes and imprisonment for participating at a nationwide protest in Iran, in August 2018.One of the brothers has been sentenced to two times executions, prison, and lashes while two of his brothers were sentenced to... Read More

Nazanin & Amir-Hossein International Liberty Association: Iran’s judiciary has ordered the wife of Mostafa Salehi, a young protester who was recently executed, to pay 425 million tomans as blood money. If that sum is not paid, the house and all properties of his bereaved wife and two orphaned children will be confiscated. Reports... Read More

ILA: Behbahan International Liberty Association: Behbahan city in Khuzestan province was the scene of protests like the 2019–2020 Iranian uprisings. In a similar and reciprocal response, the government arrested several protesters and cut off Internet access in Khuzestan. Security forces arrested a young woman during the protests in... Read More

International Liberty Association: Two young men were flogged today for participating nationwide November protests in the city of Urmia, northwest Iran. Azerbaijani rights activists Ali Azizi and Eliar Hosseinzadeh, were arrested in November 2019 after participating protest against a hike in petrol prices in November 2019. The Branch... Read More

International Liberty Association: According to AFP, Amnesty International urged the United Nations on Wednesday to launch an inquiry into the killing of protesters by Iranian security forces, six months after they erupted over petrol prices.The following is a report by AFP, regarding Amnesty International urges the United Nations to... Read More

International Liberty Association: An Appeals Court has sentenced seven Iranian teachers from North Khorasan Province for participating the nationwide teachers’ strike in 2018. According to the Council of Teachers’ syndicates, a Revolutionary Court had sentenced the seven teachers to a total of 41 years in prison as well as lashes,... Read More

International Liberty Association: France 24 reported on the violence committed by security forces during the January 12 demonstration in Tehran causing women’s injuries. For the full report please use the link below: France 24 says, A shotgun carried by a man in plainclothes, three women bleeding 70 meters away, teargas fired at... Read More

International Liberty Association: Women have a leading role in anti-government rallies in Iran. New course of protest rallies started in Iran, on Saturday, 11 January, 2020, in protest to the shoot-down of the Ukrainian passenger aircraft by the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). The security forces tried to disperse the protesters by using... Read More

ILA International Liberty association: According to human rights organisation from Iran, seven civil rights activists were arrested during the commemoration ceremony held 40 days after the killing of Navid Behboudi, on 26 December, 2019. Navid Behboudi is one of the victims of last November’s protests. Mahrokh Rousta, Kaveh... Read More

International Liberty Association: Iran social media users in the past few weeks have shared shocking news on suspicious deaths of individuals who were arrested or reported missing during the November protests, Iran protest in November, and found later dead. Reports also indicate that some of the prisoners have already died under... Read More

ILA Iran brutally cracked down on nationwide protests that erupted on November 16 after the government tripled the price of gasoline. At least 1,500 protesters were killed, around 4,000 were wounded and injured and 12,000 were detained. Many of the detainees are under torture and several have died in prison. Children killed during Iran... Read More

France 24 International Liberty Association: The Observer-France 24 has published a report, including video, regarding the recent protests in Iran, in November. The following is the context of this report and for the video you can click the link below. Between November 15 and 18, hundreds of people were killed in Iran when the government... Read More