Iranian Poet Baktash Abtin Dies After Being Arbitrarily Detained in Iran
Center for Human Rights in Iran
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Why does Austria stay silent over dual national’s arrest six years ago in Iran?
The Guardian
Six years ago on New Year’s Day, an Iranian-Austrian IT businessman said goodbye to his wife and three children and boarded a flight from Vienna to Tehran via Istanbul. Kamran Ghaderi was due to return five to six days later, but instead, on 2 January 2016, he was arrested and has now spent six years in Evin prison in Tehran. ...
‘Health Defenders’ Jailed in Iran Wanted to Sue Supreme Leader Over Covid
Farnaz Fassihi
Two lawyers and a civil rights activist who were outspoken about Iran’s chaotic response to the pandemic and delays in its vaccine rollout are on trial now, charged with threatening national security. ...
Iran’s Nuclear Challenge at a Crossroads: Dilemmas of a Threshold State
Robert S. Litwak
Diplomacy between Iran and the world’s major powers—Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States—over bringing Iran back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear agreement (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA) has stalled. A senior State Department official has said that the United States is considering “other tools … to increase the pressure on Iran,” which is a nuclear “threshold” state, to break the impasse. Negotiations are playing out against the backdrop of the latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran has accelerated its nuclear program and breached the 2015 agreement’s constraints on uranium enrichment. Based on the IAEA’s findings on Iran’s stock of fissile material, independent nuclear experts calculate that Iran could acquire sufficient weapons-grade material to produce a single nuclear bomb in as little as three weeks. ...
Europe & Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (Iran)
Azadeh Pourzand
In Iran, people’s fundamental human rights are violated on a daily basis. It is the only country in the world to have executed juvenile offenders in 2020, while the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman, has said that “women and girls continue to be treated as second class citizens”. Religious minority and ethnic groups, as well as the LGBTIQ+ community, are deprived of basic human rights, facing hate speech, harassment, and persecution. Human rights defenders pay a heavy price for their activism, being prosecuted and jailed under the pretext of so-called “security” crimes. ...
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Betrayed by Britain
CLÁR NÍ CHONGHAILE
It’s a haunting image and it has branded itself on the British consciousness over the past two weeks: Richard Ratcliffe on hunger strike outside the Foreign Office in London, as he begs the UK government to pay a decades-old debt so that his wife, mother to their seven-year-old daughter, can come home from Iran, where she has been detained on spurious charges for more than five years. ...
Iran is suffering from an epidemic of torture
By Nazanin Boniadi and Agnès Callamard
Last month, a 49-year-old man named Shahin Naseri died in prison under suspicious circumstances after he provided witness testimony about the torture of wrestler Navid Afkari. Afkari, a high-profile protester, was unjustly arrested by state agents, sentenced to death following a grossly unfair trial and executed in secret in September 2020. ...
A 26-year-old woman is exposing abuse in Iranian prisons
Opinion by Masih Alinejad
On Monday, around 30 members of the Iranian security forces raided the home of 26-year-old Sepideh Gholian, a journalist and labor rights activist. She was forcibly removed from her home as other agents took away the mobile phones of every member of her family. ...
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