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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. […]
Iran: Shameful anniversary celebrations amid decades of mass killings and cover-ups
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 […]
Crisis and Tactical Round Up: Afghanistan, End Israeli Apartheid, Iran, Torture-Free Trade Treaty
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 […]
IRAN: Tortured protestors sentenced to death
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 […]
Iran: Quash death sentences of young protesters subjected to gruesome torture
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 […]
IRAN: Youth with mental disability risks execution
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 […]
IRAN: 26 people risk execution in relation to protests
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 […]
Iran: Public execution of Majidreza Rahnavard exposes authorities’ revenge killings
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, […]
Iran: Authorities covering up their crimes of child killings by coercing families into silence
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 […]