GENEVA (1 March 2022) – UN human rights experts have called on the Government of Iran to abandon its efforts to enact a new law that would effectively isolate the country from the global internet.
The Iranian Parliament may soon ratify the “Regulatory System for Online Services Bill” – more commonly referred to as the “User […]
EU to sanction Iran militia, police, three entities over 2019 protests, diplomats say
March 31, 2021 by
By Robin Emmott, John Irish
BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) – The European Union will target eight Iranian militia and police commanders and three state entities with sanctions next week over a deadly crackdown in November 2019 by Iranian authorities, three diplomats said on Wednesday.
The travel bans and asset freezes will be the first time the EU has imposed sanctions on […]
Khamenei deprives Iranian people of COVID-19 vaccines
January 26, 2021 by
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameneiis banning highly effective coronavirus vaccines from Iran because they are made in the United States and other Western countries.
“I really do not trust” them, Khamenei said January 8, announcing the ban on two widely used vaccines produced in the United States and the United Kingdom, the Associated Press reports. “Sometimes […]
Iran: Detainees flogged, sexually abused and given electric shocks in gruesome post-protest crackdown – new report
September 20, 2020 by
September, 2, 2020
Widespread torture including beatings, floggings, electric shocks, stress positions, mock executions, waterboarding, sexual violence, forced administration of chemical substances, and deprivation of medical care
Hundreds subjected to grossly unfair trials on baseless national security charges
Death sentences issued based on torture-tainted “confessions”
Iran’s police, intelligence and security forces, and prison officials have committed, with the complicity […]
Iran’s regime continues persecution of human rights defenders
July 22, 2020 by
Protesters, journalists and women who refuse to wear a hijab all risk facing trial in Iran. But many of the lawyers trained to fight for those defendants are already in jail.
According to a recent report from the Center for Human Rights in Iran, nine human rights attorneys in Iran have been arrested or disbarred in […]
The Hill: “US must sanction Iran’s major human rights abusers”
November 24, 2018 by
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BY TZVI KAHN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 10/31/18
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
The Trump administration has repeatedly condemned Iran for its domestic repression, but it can do much more. To hold the Islamic Republic accountable and express solidarity with Iranians seeking reform, Washington should continue sanctioning the regime’s most egregious […]
EU extends Iran human rights sanctions by a year
April 13, 2018 by
DW, April 12
The measures were first passed in 2011 in response to government repression during and after Iran’s 2009 election. The European Union is set to discuss whether it should pass new sanctions at a meeting next Monday.
On Thursday, the European Union prolonged sanctions against Iran for its human rights record until 2019.
The […]
U.N. Security Council Meeting on Iran Protests
February 19, 2018 by
January 5, 2018
The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting at the request of the U.S. to discuss the ongoing political protests in Iran. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said the U.S. “stands unapologetically with those in Iran who seek freedom for themselves….” She added, “The Iranian regime is now on notice. The world will […]
Women’s campaigns flourish beyond Iran protests
January 19, 2018 by
As the protests in Iran dominated international news in early January, an editor of Grazia asked Farian Sabahi, a historian who specializes in Iran and the Middle East, to comment on the protests ravaging her country.
Sabahi penned a piece that focused on the role of women in the demonstrations, underlining that they wanted the same thing as male demonstrators — […]
Trump’s targeting of Iran comes as Islamic leaders torture and kill 8,000 protesters
January 17, 2018 by
By Rowan Scarborough – The Washington Times – Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Iran’s rulers have in icted death by torture and gun re on citizen protesters in a crackdown since the Dec. 28 street uprising erupted, the main opposition group said Tuesday.
The Europe-based National Council of Resistance of Iran says the Islamic republic’s ubiquitous security apparatus […]
