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Iran: Tortured dissident rapper risks execution

Dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi faces execution after an Esfahan Revolutionary Court sentenced him to death in April 2024. His sentencing...

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Protect the Protest in Iran, Sri Lanka and Russia

Executions Surge in Iran Since the Woman Life Freedom uprising, Iranian authorities have doubled down on their brutal use of...

Signs criticising the Iranian Islamic Regime's use of the death penalty are seen in Trafalgar Square on September 16, 2023 in London, England. Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images.

Stop the Execution Spree in Iran

Since the Woman Life Freedom uprising, Iranian authorities have doubled down on their brutal use of the death penalty as...

Iran: Drug-related executions on the rise

Concerns are growing as thousands are potentially facing the death penalty, with many either awaiting execution or under investigation for...

Iran death penalty © Amnesty International

Iran executes 853 people in eight-year high amid relentless repression and renewed ‘war on drugs’ 

Robust international action is urgently needed to halt a horrifying surge in executions that saw Iran’s prisons transformed into sites...

Iranian female students pictured from the back with their hair uncovered and raising their compulsory veils in the air. © private

Iran: Draconian campaign to enforce compulsory veiling laws through surveillance and mass car confiscations 

Iranian authorities are waging a large-scale campaign to enforce repressive compulsory veiling laws through widespread surveillance of women and girls...

Protester in Iran holds up a photo of Mahsa Amini

Protect the Protest in Iran

The death in detention of 22-year-old Mahsa (Zhina) Amini on September 16, 2022, following her violent arrest by Iran’s “morality”...

Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimimark ©Private

Iran: Executions of Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimimark plunge into new realms of cruelty

The Iranian authorities’ executions of Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimimark after egregiously unfair trials mark a harrowing descent into new...

Iran: Four Kurdish men at grave risk of execution

Anwar Khezri, Farhad Salimi, Kamran Sheikheh, and Khosrow Basharat, members of Iran’s Kurdish Sunni minority, face a serious threat of...

Mojahed (Abbas) Kourkouri

Iran: Man at risk of imminent execution linked to protests

Mojahed (Abbas) Kourkouri is at imminent risk of execution in relation to the September-December 2022 popular uprising. On December 24,...

Reza (Gholamreza) Rasaei, aged 34

Iran: Man at grave risk of protest-related execution

Iranian Kurdish man Reza (Gholamreza) Rasaei is at imminent risk of execution in relation to the September-December 2022 nationwide protests....

Human rights defender Narges Mohammadi © private

Iran: Free women human rights defenders Narges Mohammadi and Zeynab Jalalian

Narges Mohammadi and Zeynab Jalalian, both long-term women human rights defenders, have been repeatedly targeted and detained for their human...

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