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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called the human rights situation in Iran critical, as the number of deaths from protests exceeds 300, including more than 40 children.
#Iran
#HumanRights
The Supreme Court of Iran confirmed
#Mohammad_Ghobadloo
's death sentence. Ghobadloo was arrested at recent protests and sentenced to death on the charge of enmity against God ( Moharebeh).
#محمد_قبادلو
Yesterday, January 4, cooking teacher
#Navvab_Ebrahimi
was arrested by security forces and taken to Evin Prison. His page, which has 2.7 million followers, has also been removed from Instagram.
#Iran
#HumanRights
In an open letter, over 480 students and 20 university professors demanded the release of
#Leila_Hosseinzadeh
and other imprisoned students.
Despite having a certificate of penal intolerance granted by forensics, Hosseinzadeh has been detained for over four months.
#Saleh_Mirhashemi
,
#Majid_Kazemi
, and
#Saeed_Yaghubi
face imminent danger of execution. Their death sentences are upheld by Ghasem Mazinani, the same judge that refused to halt the execution of Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Mohammad Hosseini.
Read more:
The Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced
#Sara_Shamsai
, arrested during protests, to six years in prison. Shamsai was also banned from leaving the country and social activities on the internet for two years.
The Supreme Court of
#Iran
confirmed the death sentences against two protestors,
#Mohammad_Mehdi_Karami
and
#Seyed_Mohammad_Hosseini
. The verdicts against the 14 other co-defendants in this legal case were quashed, and their cases were handed to another court for review.
This video shows that in
#Khash
, hundreds of people attended the funeral of the protestors killed by the regime's military forces during the protests last Friday. During the funeral, people chanted anti-regime slogans.
#Iran
#Sistan_Baluchestan
#HumanRights
#IranRevoIution
UK and Canada sanctioned 32 Iran's regime figures over their role in human rights violations. This list includes several of Ali Khamenei's assistants and two former heads of
#Evin_Prison
.
#Iran
#HumanRights
Annual report on the condition of human rights in Iran - 2022
The 63-page report is the result of documenting 13342 reports on the status of human rights in Iran published in 2022
PDF
@NazaninBoniadi
@hdagres
@SkyylarThompson
In recent days, in
#Zahedan
, the regime arrested over 100 people calling them "thugs," "armed robbers," and "illegal aliens." Dismissing these allegations, local sources, however, explain these arrests as an attempt to subdue ongoing protests in Zahedan.
#Iran
#HumanRights
Kian Pirfalak's father announces, "I do not recognize
#MojahedKourkouri
or any other regular citizen as the murderer of my son because I saw with my eyes that security forces opened fire at our vehicle."
10-year-old Kian Pirfalak was killed during protests in
#Izeh
.
#Iran
Two Instagram bloggers
#Astiaj_Haghighi
and
#AmirMohammad_Ahmadi
were sentenced to a total of 21 years and additional punishments.
On November 1, security forces arrested this couple violently after they published a video on social media showing them dancing in a city square.
The Iranian State TV recently aired a video of the coerced confessions of two jailed students,
#Ali_Younesi
and
#Amir_Hossein_Moradi
, in the documentary "Handmade Crime." Last year, these students of the Sharif University of Technology were sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Saeed Yaghoubi's mother asked people for help and pleaded to halt her son's impending execution. The Iranian Supreme Court has recently affirmed the death sentences of
#SaeedYaghoubi
and two co-defendants in the "Khaneh e Isfahan (Isfahan House)" case.
#Iran
Serial poisoning of school students is still ongoing, as several other schoolgirls in three schools in Tehran, Tehransar and Ardabil were poisoned. (March 1)
#Iran
#مسمومیت_دانش_آموزان
Journalist Nazila Maroufian was subjected to a violent re-arrest at her home and has been subsequently taken to the Ershad courthouse in
#Tehran
.
#Iran
#NazilaMaroufian
The mother of Majid Kazemi pleads for a halt to her son's execution. The Iranian Supreme Court has recently upheld death sentences for
#MajidKazemi
and two co-defendants in the "Khaneh e Isfahan (Isfahan House)" case.
#خانه_اصفهان
#مجید_کاظمی
#HumanRights
#Iran
Today, March 7, in protest against serial poisoning attacks on schoolgirls, several teachers and other citizens rallied before the Ministry of Education in
#Saqqez
, Kurdistan province.
#Iran
#مسمومیت_دانش_آموزان
.
@SkyylarThompson
spoke with
@BBCNews
on the significance of the historic establishment of an independent fact-finding mission on Iran last Thursday by the UNHRC
#MahsaAmini
Mohammad Ghobadloo's lawyer announced that his client's death sentence has been overturned by the Supreme Court of Iran. Ghobadloo was arrested amid the nationwide protests of 2022.
#MohammadGhobadloo
#Iran
Yesterday, March 15, in
#Gorgan
, during the celebration of Chaharshanbe Suri, a festival of fire held on the eve of the last Wednesday of the Iranian year, people chanted protest slogans.
#Iran
#چهارشنبه_سوری
❗Spreading Justice❗
A number of Student-Basij members of Sharif University who have played a role in the repression of protesting students, have been identified.
Read more about them and other perpetrators on:
#MahsaAmini
The Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced
#Sepideh_Ahmadkhani
, a student at Shahid Beheshti University, to six years in prison, 74 lashes and additional punishment for “assembly and collusion against national security” and “disturbing public order.”
According to Masoud Shekari, Mohsen Shekari's father, his son's gravestone was maliciously vandalized and shattered.
#MohsenShekari
, who was arrested during the 2022 nationwide protests, was executed following a death sentence for alleged enmity against God (Moharebeh).
#Iran
The spokesperson of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs revealed that French national
#Louis_Arnaud
, 35, has been detained in Iran since September 28. He is currently jailed in
#Evin_Prison
.
#Iran
#HumanRights
The comprehensive 209-page report of the first twenty days of protest across Iran
geographic analysis/ identity of 220 killed/5,500 arrested/123 students/36 journalists/342 gatherings/698 videos..
#mahsa_amini
@SkyylarThompson
@hdagres
@NazaninBoniadi
Protest rapper Toomaj Salehi was re-arrested today (Nov 30) in Babol by security forces and transported to an undisclosed location after being released on bail from Dastgerd Prison, Isfahan, on November 18.
#Iran
#ToomajSalehi
In recent days, dozens of businesses in several cities across Iran were closed for allegedly violating the Islamic dress code (
#Hijab
) and behavior rules.
#Iran
Today, December 26, in
#Izeh
, hundreds of people gathered and protested on the 40th day of
#Kian_Pirfalak
's death. Nine-year-old Pirfalak was killed in a shooting by the security forces at protests.
#Iran
#IranProtests
Renowned Iranian actress Shohreh Ghamar has been arrested on allegations of "publishing insulting content on the Internet" and is now held at an undisclosed location.
#Iran
#ShohrehGhamar
Political prisoner Fatemeh Sepehri was re-arrested by security forces and returned to Vakilabad prison while she was still on medical furlough for three days.
#Iran
#Mashhad
#FatemehSepehri
Today, December 25, in
#Bukan
, on the 40th day of the death of several citizens killed at protests, people took to the streets and demonstrated against the regime.
#Iran
#IranProtests
Shoaib Mirbalouchzohi Rigi, a protestor arrested on October 5, 2022, has been sentenced to death by the Public Court of Zahedan for "spreading corruption on earth."
#Iran
Read HRANA's report on the latest legal status of death-row protesters:
Political Prisoner
#Farhad_Meysami
has lost considerable body weight due to a prolonged hunger strike. Last month, he went on a hunger strike to demand halting executions and the release of imprisoned political and civil rights activists.
#Iran
#HumanRights
Over the past eleven days, at least 57 prisoners, including two women and two prisoners of conscience, have been executed in various Iranian prisons.
Read more in HRANA's report:
Today, January 2, 2023, in
#Mahabad
, people gathered and protested against the regime at
#Shamal_Khadiripour
's burial place on the 40th day of his death. Regime forces killed him at protests.
#Iran
#IranProtests
During the past five days since the death of
#Mahsa_Amini
, protests broke out in 114 cities across 29 provinces. In 69 cities, 94 protests took place.
In 18 universities, the students of held protests over
#MahsaAmini
's death.
#Iran
#IranianProtests
#Mahsa_Amini
#مهسا_امینی
This video, apparently recorded last evening in Tehran and circulating on social media, depicts several police officers using electric shockers and physical force against a woman during her arrest for "improper hijab."
#Iran
#HumanRights
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, currently imprisoned, has been denied essential medical treatment. Evin prison officials cited her non-compliance with the compulsory hijab as the reason for not allowing her transfer to an outside hospital.
#Iran
#NargesMohammadi
Another video of the protests in
#Galikesh
,
#Golestan
Province (January 20). People gathered before Sunni cleric
#MohammadHussein_Gorgij
's house to demand reinstating this cleric as Azadshahr's Imam of Friday Prayer.
#Iran
A video captures today's protests in
#Zahedan
, where people are chanting, "We don't want an executioner republic," reflecting the people's firm stance against recent surging executions.
#Iran
Yesterday, civil rights activist
#Sepideh_Gholian
was sent back to the women's ward of
#Evin_Prison
. On March 15, shortly after her release from Evin prison, she was re-arrested on her way from Tehran to
#Dezful
.
#Iran
Another video of today's protests in
#Zahedan
on the anniversary of Bloody Friday of Zahedan.
#Iran
#جمعه_خونین_زاهدان
Read HRA's report for an overview and contextual information about Zahedan Bloody Friday:
On March 7, in protest against mounting serial poison attacks on school students in dozens of schools across Iran, teachers, parents of poisoned students and other citizens rallied in at least 25 cities.
Read HRANA report on these nationwide rallies:
The Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced former political prisoner
#Arash_Sadeghi
to five years and eight months in prison. Sadeghi was arrested amid nationwide protests.
#آرش_صادقی
#Saleh_Mirhashemi
,
#Majid_Kazemi
, and
#Saeed_Yaghubi
face imminent danger of execution after the supreme court upheld their death sentences. The initial death sentences were issued by Judge Morteza Barati, based on forced confessions extracted under torture.
Today, on May 9, Iranian teachers rallied in several cities nationwide before the Ministry of Education. However, in
#Sanandaj
, police interference reportedly turned the peaceful rally violent.
#Iran
Today, December 10, In
#Sanandaj
, Kurdistan Province, students protested at the female-only Technical and Vocational College. The police/security agents used violence against the students.
#Iran
#IranProtests
#StopExecutionInIran