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Child detainees subjected to flogging, electric shocks and sexual violence in brutal protest crackdown in Iran

During the brutal crackdown in Iran, intelligence and security forces have been committing horrific acts of torture, including beatings, flogging,...

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...

Olivier Vandecasteele is a Belgian aid worker

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Iranian authorities have specifically targeted children as young as 12 for their involvement in the protests

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...

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