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Compilation of images of gravesites of those killed during Iran’s Women Life Freedom uprising in the fall of 2022. Photo credit: Amnesty International

Iran: Respect families’ right to commemorate loved ones killed during Woman Life Freedom uprising without reprisals on one-year anniversary 

The families of those unlawfully killed by Iran’s security forces during the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising in 2022 must be...

The Iranian authorities are doubling down on their oppressive methods of policing and severely oppressing Iranian women and girls for defying degrading compulsory veiling laws (Photo: Amnesty International)

Iran: International community must stand with women and girls defying compulsory veiling

The Iranian authorities are doubling down on their oppressive methods of policing and severely oppressing Iranian women and girls for defying degrading compulsory veiling laws, Amnesty International said today. In a detailed analysis published...

Mojahed (Abbas) Kourkouri

Iran: Protestor at risk of execution

Mojahed (Abbas) Kourkouri is at grave risk of execution in relation to nationwide protests. In early April 2023, Iran’s judiciary...

Iran: Youth with disability at grave risk of execution

Mohammad Ghobadlou is at grave risk of execution in connection with Iran’s nationwide protests amid a spike in executions since...

A protester holds 'Stop executions in Iran' and 'Free Iran' placards during the demonstration in London, on January 14, 2023. Demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street in protest against executions in Iran and in support of freedom for Iran. (Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Iran executions: Prisons turned into killing fields

Iranian authorities have executed at least 173 people convicted of drug-related offences this year after systematically unfair trials, nearly three...

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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...

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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...

Three men in Iran are at imminent risk of execution. Names from left to right: Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi, Saeed Yaghoubi © Private

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...

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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...

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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...

A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in Turkey in support of Amini, a young Iranian woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by the Islamic Republic's 'morality police.' (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)

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...

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”...

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