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Iran: Urgent global action needed to halt imminent execution of Kurdish humanitarian worker Pakhshan Azizi

Responding to reports that Iran’s Supreme Court rejected the request for judicial review of the conviction and death sentence of...

Iran: Two prisoners face immediate execution

Behrouz Ehsani, 69, and Mehdi Hassani, 48, are at immediate risk of execution. In early January, Iran’s Supreme Court upheld...

Iran: Six men at risk of execution after flawed trial

Six men—Abolhassan Montazer, Akbar (Shahrokh) Daneshvarkar, Babak Alipour, Mohammad Taghavi Sangdehi, Pouya Ghobadi, and Vahid Bani Amerian—face imminent execution in...

Iran: New compulsory veiling law intensifies oppression of women and girls

Iranian authorities have adopted a new draconian law that further erases the human rights of women and girls, imposing the...

Iran: Kurdish activist faces execution after unfair trials

Verisheh Moradi, a member of Iran’s Kurdish minority, faces the death penalty after a deeply unfair trial in Tehran’s Revolutionary...

Iran: Mohammad Reza Azizi scheduled to be executed within days

Iranian authorities must stop the imminent scheduled execution of Mohammad Reza Azizi, a 21-year-old man, who was a 17-year-old child...

Iran: Women’s rights defender at risk of execution

Sharifeh Mohammadi, a human rights defender, is at risk of execution. A Revolutionary Court in Rasht, Gilan province, sentenced her...

Iran: Two years after ‘Woman Life Freedom’ uprising, impunity for crimes reigns supreme

People in Iran continue to endure the devastating consequences of the authorities’ brutal crackdown on the “Woman Life Freedom" uprising....

Protect the Protest in Bangladesh and Iran

In a world with increasing inequality and persisting discrimination, armed conflict, authoritarianism and crises of governance, as well as mounting...

Iran: Swedish Iranian academic faces imminent execution

Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian academic, has been arbitrarily detained in Iran for over eight years. He is now at grave...

Iran: Risk of unjust protest-related executions

At least eight people in Iran face the death penalty for their involvement in the 2022 “Woman Life Freedom” uprising....

Iran: President Raisi’s death must not deny victims of his grim human rights legacy their right to accountability

The death of president Ebrahim Raisi must not deny people in Iran their right to justice, truth and reparation for...

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