Iran: June 2021 Human Rights Abuses
In June, the Iranian regime elevated Judiciary Chief and 1988 Death Commission member Ebrahim Raisi to the position of president, and this is actually quite indicative of how human rights abuses were commonplace that month; from executions to religious discrimination. Executions Iran, which has the highest per-capita execution rate in the world, executed at least […]
Iran: Amnesty International Has Published a 48-Page Report on the Torture of Afkari Brothers
Afkari brothers have been tortured in Shiraz solitary confinement for months. Vahid and Habib Afkari are brothers of the wrestling champion Navid Afkari, who have been held in solitary confinement since Navid execution in September 2020. Amnesty International has published a detailed 48-page report on the torture of these brothers. Amnesty writes in the introduction […]
Iran: Arrests of Afkari Family for Protesting
Agents of the Iranian regime have beaten the relatives of two political prisoners(Vahid and Habib Afkari), merely for protesting the conditions that the pair are being held under, according to one of the prisoners. On Sunday, June 13, Saeed Afkari, who is the brother of prisoners Vahid and Habib, tweeted that plainclothes agents attacked his […]
Iran Human Rights in May 2021
The Iran Human Rights Monitor has just released its monthly report into human rights in Iran for May 2021, which contains information about executions, torture, suppression of minorities, and arrests of political activists and religious and ethnic minorities. Here, we’ll look at what that report contained, but we always advise going to read the full […]
Iran’s Regime Executed 118th Woman Under Rouhani
The Iranian regime hanged a woman and her husband in Qazvin Central Prison at dawn on Sunday, 30 May 2021, bringing the total number of women executed during the presidency of Hassan Rouhani to 118; an average of 15 per year over the past eight years. The couple were identified by their last name – […]
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 […]