High number of Iran executions in 2021 signals worsening rights condition
IRAN HRM | October 7, 2021
October 10 is World Day Against the Death Penalty. More than 140 countries have agreed to abolish the death...
Activists press Biden to be tough on Iran’s new president
Iranian-American activists press Biden to be tough on Iran’s new president in UN speech
Call for Iranian president to face trial for crimes against humanity
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Murder Trial in Sweden Could Shine Unsavory Light on Iran’s New President
Nearly 3,000 miles from Tehran where mass executions were carried out in 1988, a murder trial in Sweden could produce new revelations that complicate...
Iran: Security forces use live ammunition and birdshot to crush Khuzestan protests
Amnesty International | July 23, 2021
Iran’s security forces have deployed unlawful force, including by firing live ammunition and birdshot, to crush mostly peaceful protests...
Iranian Intelligence Officials Indicted on Kidnapping Conspiracy Charges
Department of Justice | July 13, 2021
Iranian Intelligence Services Allegedly Plotted to Kidnap a U.S. Journalist and Human Rights Activist from New York City...
Iran Uses Punitive Law to Keep Population in Line, UN Says
VOA | By Lisa Schlein | June 23, 2021
A new report by the U.N. secretary-general on the human rights situation in Iran condemns the...
Dozens of former UN officials call for inquiry into 1988 Iran massacre
The Hill | BY JOHN BOWDEN | 05/04/21
Dozens of human rights experts, including former United Nations officials, in a Tuesday letter called on the UN...
Iranian Diplomat Sentenced to 20 Years for Foiled Bomb Plot in France
Assadollah Assadi is the first Iranian diplomat convicted for terrorism in Europe in a case that has soured Iranian relations with a key partner
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U.N. condemns Iran execution spree, worried about minorities
Reuters | By Reuters Staff | Jan. 29, 2021
DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights office on Friday condemned an alleged spree of 28...
Iran: Secret execution of wrestler Navid Afkari a ‘travesty of justice’
Iran: Secret execution of wrestler Navid Afkari a ‘travesty of justice’
Amnesty International | September 12, 2020
The secret execution this morning of wrestling champion Navid Afkari,...