How Was Iran’s Human Rights Situation in April?
In April, the Iranian regime once again tried to destroy a mass grave of the political prisoners killed during the 1988 massacre to hide evidence of its crime against humanity, according to Iran Human Rights Monitor in its latest report into human rights abuses in the country. The report explains that the regime wants to […]
Amnesty International: Iran’s Regime Ended 2020 With More Human Rights Abuses
Amnesty International has published its annual report on human rights violations in Iran. The report was published on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Amnesty International’s report strongly criticized the human rights situation in Iran, stating that in 2020 the Iranian regime increasingly used the death penalty to suppress political protests, dissidents, and ethnic and religious minorities. […]
Iran HRM on Iran Human Rights in February 2021
Iran Human Rights Monitor has published its report on human rights abuses in February 2021 and, as always, it makes for uncomfortable reading with a heavy focus on executions, arbitrary killings, torture, and a violent crackdown on dissent. This will be a short overview, but a more extensive look is available here. Executions The Iranian […]
Iran’s Regime Executes 4 Ahvazi Arab Political Prisoners
Iran executed four political prisoners from the Ahvazi Arab minority on Sunday, February 28, 2021, in Sepidar prison, Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province. They have been named as Naser Khafajian, Ali Khasraji, Hossein Silawi and Jasem Heidary. Shortly before their deaths, their families were contacted by Intelligence Ministry agents and taken to Ahvaz’s Chaharshir Square, where they […]
MEPs: Statement on Human Rights in Iran
Urgent Case of Political Prisoner Saeid Sangar
Twenty-four members of the European Parliament cosigned a statement on the initiative of the European Parliament’s Friends of a Free Iran (FoFI) about the alarming human rights situation in Iran, following a recent surge of executions and mass arrests across the country since December 2020. The following is the Press release and the full statement […]
British Parliamentarians Condemn Human Rights Violations and Pressure on Political Prisoners in Iran
The British Committee for Iran Freedom (BCFIF) issued a press statement condemning the Iranian regime’s pressure on political prisoners. The statement cited an increase in the prison sentence for political prisoner Saeid Sangar, who was sentenced to another 11 months in prison after 20 years in prison with severe pressure. BCFIF condemned the inhumane sentence. […]
Maryam Rajavi: Hideous Remarks by Deputy Head of Iran Police Force About Breaking Limbs of Detainees
On Thursday, December 31, 2020, State Security Force deputy commander, Brig. Gen. Qassem Rezaei issued an order to his subordinates stating: “If you arrest those who ‘wield machetes’, you must do something to drop (the machete) on the ground…that is he no longer should have an arm to (hold the machete.” He went on to […]
Ukrainian Plane Crash in Iran and Litigation by the Victims
Following the elimination of Qassem Soleimani, the mullahs’ regime fired several rockets at the US Ain al-Assad base in Iraq on January 8, 2020 in a show of retaliation. But for fear of a possible US response, the regime had its anti-aircraft systems ready around Tehran to counter US retaliatory strikes. However, the regime did […]
Abuse of Iran’s Female Political Prisoners
In December 2020, the Iranian regime increased its physical and psychological pressure on female political prisoners, subjecting them to violence, sudden relocations, and detention without trial. They even executed two women, including Zeinab Khodamoradi in the Central Prison of Sanandaj and an unnamed woman in Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz. With that in mind, let’s look at some […]
A Look at Human Rights Violations and the Death Penalty in Iran in 2020
Iran Human Rights Monitor has published its annual report on the death penalty in Iran under the religious dictatorship of the mullahs.Meanwhile, the Iranian people are facing widespread human rights violations by the mullah regime in all areas. Execution is a well-known method of this criminal regime to suppress and intimidate Iranian society. The Iran […]