Human rights

Mohammad Khani released from Evin Prison after posting bail

Mohammad Khani, translator, researcher, and doctoral student at Allameh Tabatabaei University, was released on bail today, Wednesday, November 11, until…

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"Zeinab Jalalian has been transferred to Yazd prison"

A human rights organization reported, citing an “informed source,” that Zeinab Jalalian had been transferred to Yazd.…

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Nasrin Sotoudeh's coronavirus test positive

Reza Khandan, Nasrin Sotoudeh's husband, announced in a note published on social media that his wife had contracted COVID-19...

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Execution of the flogging sentence of two young men in public in Khorasan Razavi

The verdict of 74 lashes for two young men from Golbahar city, Khorasan Razavi Province, who were accused of “theft and harassment,” was handed down in a court of law.

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Security pressure increases on the eve of the anniversary of the November 2019 protests; dozens of people were summoned to the prosecutor's office in Behbahan city

On the eve of the anniversary of the November protests, reports indicate that security pressures on the families of those killed in the protests…

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Farideh Veisi and Sirous Abbasi, two civil society activists from Kurdistan; another account of detention and torture for forced confessions on camera

An informed source says that Farideh Veisi, a civil activist from the Kurdistan province of Iran, and her husband, who were…

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UN: Iran must conduct independent investigations into violence in November 2019

Nasrin Sotoudeh and other prisoners arbitrarily arrested and detained must be released immediately, says Javed Rahman, UN Senior Expert…

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The Center for Human Rights Defenders demanded the names of those killed in the November 2019 protests be announced.

Images of children who were shot and killed by Islamic Republic security forces during the November 2019 protests. This organization…

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