According to reports from Iran, a number of Gonabadi dervishes have been detained by the security forces of the Islamic Republic in Tehran and Karaj, and there is no information available about their condition and fate. Additionally, three Gonabadi dervishes are set to be sentenced to ten years in prison on charges of “membership in deviant sects and disturbing public minds,” and they will be sent to Evin Prison. As reported by human rights sources, on Monday, April 11, 2021, Zahra Entesari and Maryam Moradi, two female activists in the…
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Unjustified summons to judicial authorities and arrest, torture of civil and media activists in different cities of Iran
Following the violation of human rights and the suppression of protests in Iran, which has become a regular practice in the government, four civil activists critical of the government of the Islamic Republic have been arrested in recent days in Tehran and Karaj. Two political analysts and a human rights defender were also summoned to court. According to numerous reports from reliable sources, Ms. Mehri Entesari and Yashar Karimi were arrested on December 28, 2020 in Tehran, and Ms. Somayeh Moghadam and Fatemeh Zahraei were arrested on December 30, 2020 by…
Read MoreIt is Time that Iran be Held Accountable
Last month the world turned its attention to Iran for its seemingly arbitrary transfer of a detained British-Australian academic. Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who was detained in September 2018 and is serving a ten-year sentence, was moved from the notorious Evin Prison to an unspecified location. When Human Rights Activists released the report, nearly every major media publication across the globe once again jumped to denounce her detention. Widespread speculation as to Moore-Gilbert’s whereabouts ensued. As a human rights professional who focuses on Iran, it was gratifying to see such a swift…
Read MoreA number of civil and media activists arrested and summoned in different cities of Iran
Following the ongoing violations of human rights in Iran, three media activists and civil activists critical of the Islamic Republic’s government were arrested in Tehran and Ahvaz in recent days, and two human rights activists were summoned to khuzestan judicial authorities. According to reliable human rights sources, two Ahwazi Arab bloggers and media activists, Reza Bavi and Fouad Sadeghi, were arrested by security agents on October 30, 2020, at Tehran International Airport (Imam) and the next day on October 31, 2020, Kamal Hosseini in front of Chamran University in Ahvaz.…
Read MoreSeveral media activists and bloggers were arrested in various cities in Iran
Following the severe human rights violations in Iran, four media activists and bloggers critical of the Islamic Republic have been arrested in Tehran and Shiraz in recent days. According to credible sources, following the recent widespread protests against the Islamic Republic authorities and institutions, which began in the third week of November 2019 and spread throughout Iran, a wave of arrests of student and media activists, bloggers, and critics began. On Wednesday, November 19, Hamed Zahraei and Amir Hamzeh Safizadeh were arrested in Shiraz. On Thursday, November 20, Behnam Karimi…
Read MoreUN and Amnesty International Condemn the Crackdown on Iran Protests
On Tuesday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported that dozens of people have been killed in continuing protests across Iran – mostly by live ammunition. Rupert Colville, the Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said: “We are deeply concerned by reported violations of international norms and standards on the use of force, including the firing of live ammunition, against demonstrators in Iran during the protests that began on Friday and have continued into this week. We are especially alarmed that…
Read MoreIran Protests: Heavy Punishment for the Regime
“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.” These are the words of the famous French author Guy de Maupassant, underlining the right of the people to take their rights. The Iranian regime’s founder Ruhollah Khomeini claimed victory after killing 120,000 people of Iran and said that the story of resistance in front of this regime is over. Now his successor, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is confessing about the resistance of…
Read MoreIran executes ‘CIA spy’ amid Gulf tensions
Iran has hanged a CIA informer said to be a former member of the military unit that downed the US drone on Thursday. Iran’s Judiciary Unit for Armed Forces confirmed an earlier report by Iran Human Rights organisation (IRH) that Seyyed Jamal Haji-Zavareh was executed last week on charges of “spying for an enemy state and the CIA”. Hajizavareh was reportedly executed at the Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj, west of Tehran. The justice department has denied Haji-Zavareh had been a senior member of the military unit and has referred…
Read MoreAnother Iranian Lawyer Sentenced to 30 Years of Imprisonment
Iran Human Rights (IHR); June 1, 2019: Amirsalar Davoudi, a detained member of the Iranian Bar Association who had represented some of the Iranian political prisoners, is sentenced to 30 years in prison by the Iranian authorities. He is accused of several charges and under Iranian law, the longest jail-term among the accusation is applicable. In this case, the lawyer should be in jail for 15 years, a sentence issued by the Revolutionary Court for running a channel on Telegram, a social media application. IHR strongly condemns Mr Davoudi’s verdict…
Read MoreIranian Intelligence Shuts Down Church, Removes Cross
The Assyrian Christian community in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz has been left in a state of shock after intelligence agents forced a Presbyterian church to close earlier this month, Assyrian International News Agency (Aina) reports. Religious freedom charity Article18 said: “Intelligence agents stormed the 100-year-old church, officially recognized as a national heritage site in Iran, on Thursday, May 9, changed all the locks, tore down the cross from the church tower, and ordered the churchwarden to leave.” “They made it clear that the Assyrian people are no longer…
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