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 […]

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. […]

The Iranian authorities’ refusal to acknowledge let alone ensure accountability for the 1988 prison massacres – the worst incident of secret mass killings committed since the establishment of Islamic Republic […]

Afghanistan Since seizing control of Afghanistan in August 2022, the Taliban have mounted a sustained attack on human rights, persecuting minority groups, violently clamping down on peaceful protests, and using […]

Download a copy of the 1st UA 9/23 below Young protesters Javad Rouhi, 31, Mehdi Mohammadifard, 19, and Arshia Takdastan, 18, are at risk of execution in Iran following grossly […]

The Iranian authorities must immediately quash the unjust convictions and death sentences of three young protesters who were subjected to gruesome torture including floggings, electric shocks, being hung upside down […]

Download a copy of the 1st UA 6/23 below Mohammad Ghobadlou, a 22-year-old with mental disability is at grave risk of execution in connection with Iran’s nationwide protests. He has […]

Download a copy of the 3rd UA 103/22 below At least 26 people are at great risk of execution in connection with nationwide protests after Iranian authorities arbitrarily executed two […]

Responding to the Iranian authorities’ public execution today of Majidreza Rahnavard, a young man sentenced to death, after a sham unfair trial, in connection with ongoing nationwide protests, Diana Eltahawy, […]

The Iranian authorities’ arbitrary arrest, intimidation and harassment of relatives of children, unlawfully gunned down or beaten to death by security forces in connection with protests, exposes their inconceivable cruelty […]

The Iranian authorities executed today a young protester, Mohsen Shekari, after he was convicted and sentenced to death in proceedings that bore no resemblance to a meaningful trial for participating […]

The Iranian authorities’ vague and conflicting statements on the supposed disbanding of Iran’s so-called “morality police” must not deceive the international community about the continuing violence against women and girls […]