Iran: Youth jailed at 17 to be executed in less than 36 hours
Hossein Shahbazi, 22, is at risk of imminent execution in relation to a crime that took place when he was just 17 years old. His trial was grossly unfair, and […]
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Iran: At least 7 people face imminent execution
At least seven individuals in Iran are under sentence of death in connection with nationwide protests. Dozens of others are at risk of being sentenced to death. The authorities have […]
Iran: International community must take bold action to prevent the execution of three tortured protesters
Responding to fears over the imminent execution in Iran of three protesters – Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashemi and Saeed Yaghoubi – from Esfahan after state media broadcast their forced “confessions” […]
Iran: Six men from minority group at risk of execution
Six men – Ali Mojadam, Moein Khanfari, Mohammad Reza Moghadam, Salem Mousavi, Adnan Ghobeishavi and Habib Deris – from Iran’s persecuted Ahwazi Arab minority face imminent execution. A Revolutionary Court […]
Iran: Millions of schoolgirls at risk of poisoning
The rights to education, health and life of millions of schoolgirls are at risk amid ongoing chemical gas attacks deliberately targeting girls’ schools in Iran. Since November 2022, the attacks […]
Protect the Protest in Iran: the legacy of Mahsa Amini
The death in custody of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s “morality” police in September 2022 sparked a nationwide uprising that continues into 2023, with women and girls leading […]
Iran: Tortured German-Iranian, Jamshid Sharmahd, sentenced to death
German-Iranian political dissident, Jamshid Sharmahd, is at risk of execution. He has been sentenced to death for “corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel-arz) following a grossly unfair trial. Since July 2020, […]
Child detainees subjected to flogging, electric shocks and sexual violence in brutal protest crackdown in Iran
During the brutal crackdown in Iran, intelligence and security forces have been committing horrific acts of torture, including beatings, flogging, electric shocks, rape and other sexual violence against child protesters […]
Iran: Release Zeynab Jalalian
Chilling execution spree in Iran with escalating use of the death penalty against persecuted ethnic minorities
The Iranian authorities have executed at least one Ahwazi Arab, 14 Kurds and 13 Baluchis following grossly unfair trials, and sentenced at least a dozen others to death since the […]
Iran: Detained Belgian aid worker, Olivier Vandecasteele must be released immediately!
Iranian authorities are subjecting Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele to enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment. He is held in solitary confinement in a windowless basement cell and is denied […]
Iran: Kurdish men forcibly disappeared for months
Download a copy of the 1st UA 20/23 below Iranian authorities have forcibly disappeared Iranian Kurdish dissidents Pejman Fatehi, Vafa Azarbar, Mohammad (Hazhir) Faramarzi and Mohsen Mazloum for seven months. […]
