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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. ...
What is going on between Iran and Azerbaijan?
Middle East Monitor
Tensions have increased between Iran and Azerbaijan in the past few weeks. However, relations between the two neighbours were unstable even earlier, especially following the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia last autumn. ...
The 13 crises facing Iran
Mohammad Hossein Ziya
Ebrahim Raisi, the eighth president of Iran, has taken over at a time when the Islamic Republic is facing a series of major potential crises. Over the next several decades, these crises could have consequences that will not only affect Iran itself, but may reverberate across the region as well. This article will address the 13 crises facing Raisi’s government and Iranian society more broadly. ...
A DECADE OF DEATHS IN CUSTODY UNPUNISHED AMID SYSTEMIC IMPUNITY FOR TORTURE IN IRAN
Amnesty International
Iranian authorities have failed to provide accountability for at least 72 deaths in custody since January 2010, despite credible reports that they resulted from torture or other ill-treatment or the lethal use of firearms and tear gas by officials, said Amnesty International following yesterday’s reports of yet another suspicious death in custody. ...
Iran: Leaked video footage from Evin prison offers rare glimpse of cruelty against prisoners
Amnesty International
Leaked surveillance footage from Evin prison showing appalling abuse of prisoners serves as a chilling reminder of the impunity granted to prison officials in Iran who subject those in their custody to torture and other cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment, Amnesty International said today. ...
Iran: Security forces use ruthless force, mass arrests and torture to crush peaceful protests
Amnesty International
Iranian security forces resorted to unlawful use of force, including birdhsot, and mass arrests to ruthlessly crack down on predominately peaceful protests that have erupted in various locations across Iran in recent weeks, said Amnesty International. Activists, protesters and bystanders swept up in the wave of arrests, including, children have been subjected to enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment. ...
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