Human rights

Human rights media report the deaths of several prisoners in Greater Tehran Prison and Urmia Prison due to coronavirus infection.

In recent days, at least 9 prisoners in Greater Tehran and Urmia prisons have died from coronavirus.

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Call on the World Health Organization: Iran to release political prisoners

A group of political and civil activists inside and outside Iran wrote a letter to human rights organizations and…

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Four journalists critical of water cuts in Shahrood last year sentenced to prison and fines

In Shahrood, four journalists, Mehdi Ameri, Reza Zolfaghari, Mohammad Hossein Nademi, and Mostafa Sharif, were sentenced by the Criminal Court to a total of…

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Four women's rights activists in Iran summoned to serve prison sentences

Maryam Mohammadi, Nahid Shaghaghi, Akram Nasirian, and Asrin Derkale, four women's rights activists who were collectively sentenced by the Revolutionary Court to…

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Reza Khandan: Nasrin says if we are going to die, we should die with our families.

Reza Khandan, civil activist and husband of Nasrin Sotoudeh, spoke about the hunger strike of this…

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Shirin Ebadi: The Ministry of Intelligence intends to kill Narges Mohammadi

Shirin Ebadi, head of the Iranian Center for Human Rights Defenders, called on the Ministry of Intelligence to…

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Nasrin Sotoudeh protests against “systematic violation of women’s rights” in Iran

Nasrin Sotoudeh has published a message from Evin Prison on the occasion of March 8. A call for a joint struggle against discrimination and injustice.…

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Human Rights Watch: UN should investigate bloody Aban crackdown

Human Rights Watch expressed concern over the Iranian authorities' failure to follow up on the bloody repression of the November 2019 protests, calling for...

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