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Iran: Respect families’ right to commemorate loved ones killed during uprising without reprisals on one-year anniversary
The families of those unlawfully killed by Iran’s security forces during the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising in 2022 must be allowed to mark the one-year anniversaries of their deaths, Amnesty International said today, as the Iranian authorities ramp up their campaign of harassment and intimidation against victims’ families to enforce
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Iran: International community must stand with women and girls suffering intensifying oppression
The Iranian authorities are doubling down on their oppressive methods of policing and severely oppressing Iranian women and girls for defying degrading compulsory veiling laws, Amnesty International said today. In a detailed analysis published today, the organization exposes the authorities’ intensified nationwide crackdown on women and girls who choose not to wear headscarves in public. In the latest escalation on 16 July, the spokesperson of Iran’s police, Saeed Montazer-Almahdi, announced the return of police patrols to enforce compulsory veiling and threatened legal action against women and girls who defy forced veiling. This coincided with videos circulating on
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Britain, France, Germany: Tehran’s nuclear program has reached a dangerous level
Following a United Nations Security Council meeting on Thursday regarding Resolution 2231 on Iran’s nuclear program, Britain, France and Germany issued a joint statement in which they raised an alarm that the Iranian regime has been violating its nuclear commitments under the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) for over four years. As
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Iran: Execution of Three Uprising Prisoners in Isfahan Despite Domestic and Global Protests
The Iranian regime’s judiciary, under the orders of Khamenei, carried out the execution of three uprising prisoners in Isfahan today, on Friday, May 19. Despite widespread domestic and international protests, Saleh Mirhashmi (36 years old), Majid Kazemi (30 years old), and Saeed Yaqoubi (37 years old) were subjected to months
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Execution of 9 Prisoners in 3 Days and Transfer of Death Row Inmates To Solitary Cells for Sentence Implementation
In a continuation of the disturbing trend of prisoner executions, the oppressive regime of Khamenei hanged Jafar Mohammadpour, Ghobad Farhadi, and another prisoner today at Urmia Prison. Yesterday, Houshang Amiri Zadeh met the same fate at Qazvin Central Prison, while Ali-Doust Barahoui faced execution at Zahedan Prison. On Wednesday, June
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Seven Inmates Pos were Executed in Yazd, Mashhad, and Birjand
A, Human Rights Activists News Agency-Haal Vsh reports the execution of seven inmates on May 4, 2023, across three different prisons in Iran: five in Yazd prison, one in Birjand, and one in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad. Among the five executed in Yazd, three have been identified as Saboor Shah-Bakhsh
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Sexual and Gender Based Violence Against Religious Freedom Protesters in Iran
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 19, 2023 USCIRF Releases New Report on Sexual and Gender Based Violence Against Religious Freedom Protesters in Iran Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released the following new report on Sexual and Gender Based Violence Against Religious Freedom Protesters in
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Iran: Child detainees subjected to flogging, electric shocks and sexual violence in brutal protest crackdown
March 16, 2023- Iran’s intelligence and security forces have been committing horrific acts of torture, including beatings, flogging, electric shocks, rape and other sexual violence against child protesters as young as 12 to quell their involvement in nationwide protests, said Amnesty International today.Marking six months of the unprecedented popular uprising
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Iran: Deliberate Poisoning of Students Continues in Various Cities
March 2, 2023-The project of poisoning students in girls’ schools is gaining new dimensions every day, and the leaders of the regime are trying to hide the regime’s role in this crime by lying and creating conflicting scenarios. Zahra Sheikhi, the spokesperson of the Health Committee of mullahs’ parliament, Majlis,
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A Political Prisoner Executed in Iran
On Wednesday, February 22, the Iranian regime secretly hanged the political prisoner Sarkut Ahmadi from Ravansar, who had been in the Dizelabad prison of Kermanshah for the past two years ago. Mr. Ahmadi, 29, was sentenced to death in January 2021 for the death of a State Security Force Major
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