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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
NYC Rally: No to Rouhani, Time for a Free Iran
August 30, 2017 by
by: AIAINY
August 10, 2017
New York City; August 10, 2017 – Thousands of Iranian-Americans will gather in New York City to protest Iranian regime president Hassan Rouhani’s presence at the United Nations General Assembly, and call for regime change in Iran. Organized by the Association of Iranian Americans in New York (AIAINY), a member of the Organization of Iranian […]
U.S. and U.N. Must Compel Iran to Provide Medical Care to Political Prisoners
August 24, 2017 by
Statement
Washington, DC; August 24, 2017 – National Coalition of Pro-Democracy Advocates condemns Iranian regime’s treatment of political prisoners, including inhumane denial of medical care.
Conditions in Iranian prisons are so poor that in recent weeks, political prisoners have been forced to stage hunger strikes with the hope of receiving the most basic of healthcare services. In […]
115th Congress – Resolution Seeks Accountability & Justice for Iran Massacre
August 23, 2017 by
Introduced by Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), H.Res.188 and its bi-partisan co-sponsors condemn the 1988 massacre of some 30,000 political prisoners in Iran –
115th CONGRESS
1st Session
Condemning the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran for the 1988 massacre of political prisoners and calling for justice for the victims.
H. […]
Iran: A look at the ‘dark past’ of those in the running for Rouhani’s cabinet
August 23, 2017 by
Shima Silavi, Special to Al Arabiya English
August 11, 2017
Anticipation is growing in Iran to discover Rouhani’s new proposed cabinet and the voters who elected him as their representative are interested to know who will aid their president in decision making during the four years to come.
Rouhani nominated all male figures to fill 17 of 18 […]
Recent suicides highlight ongoing Iranian human rights abuses
March 8, 2017 by
In January, a young woman in Iran committed suicide. Now, sadly, suicides have become increasingly common among Iranian women due to a variety of social ills, including state-mandated misogyny. But, in Mahdis’s case, it happened one day after she was released from prison. She was sexually abused by Iranian suppressive forces.
At only 26, the aspiring […]
Sanctions Targeting Iranian Human Rights Abusers are Right, Not Radical
October 16, 2015 by
Sheryl Saperia
14th October 2015 – The Canadian Jewish News
On September 23rd, Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson announced that the Conservatives, if re-elected, would amend the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) to include gross human rights abuses as new grounds for Canadian sanctions against foreign states, entities and individuals. Whoever forms the next federal government should […]
Two Poets Sentenced to Flogging and Nine and Eleven Years in Prison
October 16, 2015 by
OCTOBER 14, 2015
Forced Confessions Used as Primary Evidence in Convictions
October 14, 2015—A Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced the poets Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Moosavi to 9 years and 6 months and 99 lashes, and 11 years and 99 lashes, respectively, on charges of “insulting the sacred” for the social criticism expressed in their poetry.
The flogging […]
