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On Friday, May 13, 2022, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) held a press conference in Paris, making public for the first time the hitherto undisclosed names of over 33,000 officials, interrogators, torturers, and executioners in Iran’s Prisons Organization and over 22,000 of their pictures.

NCRI’s Conference Reveals Names and Pictures of Officials and Henchmen in Iran Prisons Organization

May 20, 2022

Former assistant prosecutor in Gohardasht prison, Hamid Noury (also known as Hamid Abbasi) has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Swedish court on charges of being involved in a crime against humanity in the case of the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners.

Request for Life Imprisonment for the Executioner Hamid Noury; The End of Impunity?

May 7, 2022

The following video, posted on the YouTube channel of the National Council of Resistance of Iran(NCRI), provides useful information about the role of the mass murderer Ebrahim Raisi, who was appointed president last year by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. It also mentions the responsibility of the free world in this regard.

Iran, Where Mass Murderers Rule and Free World’s Responsibility

April 23, 2022

The US State Department released the report entitled: “2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Iran”. In this report, US State Department lists the human rights violations in Iran by the mullahs' regime in the section on Iran.

Iran: U.S. State Dept’s 2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

April 19, 2022

As it is written in the introduction of this report on the website of Amnesty International: “This briefing documents how Iranian officials are committing shocking violations of the right to life by deliberately denying ailing prisoners lifesaving healthcare and refusing to investigate and ensure accountability for unlawful deaths in custody. The briefing details the circumstances surrounding the deaths in custody of 92 men and four women in 30 prisons in 18 provinces across Iran since 2010.”

In Death’s Waiting Room; Amnesty International’s Horrific Report on Iran’s Regime Prisons

April 13, 2022

In an exclusive report on March 28, 2022, Iran Azadi [Freedom] website published a story on dissident cleric Einollah Rezazadeh Jouybari about horrific and flagrant crimes, torture, and ill-treatment of prisoners at Sari Prison in the northern province of Mazandaran.

Exclusive: Critic Cleric Discloses Horrific Crimes in Sari Prison, North of Iran

April 5, 2022

Iran Human Rights Monitor has published its report on human rights violations in March 2022 with focus on executions, arbitrary killings, torture, violation of the right to freedom of assembly and expression, and cruel and degrading punishments.

Iran HRM on Iran Human Rights in March 2022

April 4, 2022

Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM) has published its report on executions in March 2022. This report focused specifically on executions for various charges across Iran.

Iran HRM: Continuation of Death Sentences in Iran, March 2022

April 2, 2022

On March 17, 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council held its annual review of the human rights situation in Iran as part of its 49th session.

UN Expert Called for Accountability on Human Rights Violations in Iran

March 19, 2022

Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM) said, “Torture, degrading punishments, and persecution of citizens continued in Iran. The regime violated the right to peaceful assembly by the arrest of a number of teachers, during the nationwide sit-ins and demonstrations of Iranian teachers.”

February 2022 Saw Further Increases in the Iranian Regime’s Inhumane Treatment of the Iranian People

March 9, 2022