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Iran: Horrifying execution of young protester exposes authorities’ cruelty and risk of further bloodshed

The Iranian authorities executed today a young protester, Mohsen Shekari, after he was convicted and sentenced to death in proceedings...

Iran: International community must not be deceived by dubious claims of disbanding ‘morality police’

The Iranian authorities’ vague and conflicting statements on the supposed disbanding of Iran’s so-called “morality police” must not deceive the...

Iran: Landmark UN fact-finding mission marks long-awaited turning point in tackling systematic impunity

Responding to today’s announcement that the UN Human Rights Council has passed a landmark resolution to establish a fact-finding mission...

Iran: Iran: At least 23 children killed with impunity during brutal crackdown on youthful protests

Iranian security forces’ unlawful killings of at least 23 children shed further light on the authorities’deadly resolve to crush the...

Iran: At least 82 Baluchi protesters and bystanders killed in bloody crackdown 

Iranian security forces unlawfully killed at least 66 people, including children, and injured hundreds of others after firing live ammunition,...

“Women, Life, Freedom!” Protect the Protest in Iran

“Please be our voice… We are standing firm in the streets. We are risking our lives on the street [protesting],...

IRAN: Three People Risk Court Ordered Blinding

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 87/22 BELOW Three prisoners, two men and a woman, are at imminent risk of judicially-sanctioned...

Iran: Leaked documents reveal top-level orders to armed forces to ‘mercilessly confront’ protesters

Iran’s highest military body instructed the commanders of armed forces in all provinces to “severely confront” protesters who took to...

Iran: “Protester killings must be urgently investigated by international accountability mechanism” says Amnesty chief

Amnesty International’s ongoing investigations into the crackdown on popular protests in Iran has revealed widespread patterns of unlawful use of...

Iran: Urgent international action needed to ensure accountability for Mahsa Amini’s death in custody

The death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini (whose Kurdish name is Zhina) on 16 September 2022, days after she...

Iran: World must take meaningful action against bloody crackdown as death toll rises

The bravery of protesters facing a spiralling deadly response by the Iranian security forces over the past days after the...

Protesters clash in Iran after Mahsa Amini's death

Mahsa Amini and the deadly crackdown on protests in Iran

World leaders at the UN General Assembly must support calls for the establishment of an independent international investigative and accountability...

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