In studying human rights issues in Iran there are two general themes that we should consider: First one is the systematic issues underpinned by laws and regulations which remain generally unchanged with occasional improvements or setbacks. The problems in the area of laws and regulations are fundamental and rooted in the constitution and the Islamic penal code with no prospects of change or improvements in sight.
The regime is in a severe financial, health and legitimacy crisis and counting to be able to negotiate with US after US elections and not before.
By going on a hunger strike when the COVID-19 outbreak began, prominent Iranian human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh “tried to pressure the prison’s authorities to release prisoners, or at least grant them temporary release on furlough,” says her husband, Reza Khandan.
Article18 has submitted a new report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, highlighting the “multiple layers” of religious-freedom violations faced by Christians and other religious minorities in Iran.
Laws in Iran that allow the authorities to imprison people after they’ve been acquitted should be immediately revised, said the mother of jailed activist Saba Kord-Afshari, 21, who is again facing a minimum 15-year prison sentence for advocating against the country’s mandatory hijab law after the Appeals Court acquitted her.
According to an old dictum, the best leaders are those who don’t ask for the job. By such logic, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, the fifty-eight-year-old who became the new speaker of the Iranian parliament on May 28, is not very qualified. The conservative soldier-cum-politician has never hidden his ambitions for power. His ascendancy to the top legislative position in the country comes after three failed runs for the presidency in 2005, 2013, and 2017.
(Beirut) – Iranian authorities have detained two students from Sharif University in Tehran in solitary confinement for nearly two months, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should release the two students immediately – unless they can promptly charge them with a recognizable crime – and ensure all their due process rights.
Khuzestan has become Iran’s first province to officially ban women's boxing.
Ali Afshari is an Iranian human rights activist. Although he no longer lives in Iran, he is a man who has fought, and is still fighting for human rights that are deeply threatened.
A father in Iran has been arrested for allegedly beheading his 14-year-old daughter in a so-called ‘honor killing,’ after discovering she ran away from home with her boyfriend.
