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Amnesty International called for Iran to immediately release political prisoners and elite students Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi, who have been held on national security offenses, “including gathering and colluding to commit crimes against national security and spreading propaganda against the system”, for a year. The human rights group tweeted: “For one year [Younesi…

On Sunday, February 21, relatives of Behnam Mahjoubi confirmed the death of this imprisoned dervish. After months of torture in Evin Prison and a lack of necessary medical care, he was transferred from prison to Tehran’s Loghman Hospital. There have been conflicting reports about his death under government censorship and judicial denials by executioners. Behnam…

Protests erupted in the city of Saravan, southeast Iran, when the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) opened fire on a group of deprived Baluchi fuel porters, killing and wounding dozens. People in different parts of Sistan and Baluchistan staged protests and strikes, in some cities attacking IRGC bases. These protests indicate the Iranian society’s restiveness. The Iranian…

4th Feb 2020 – In a historic turn of events, a court in Antwerp, Belgium, sentenced Iran’s incarcerated diplomat-terrorist Assadollah Assadi to 20 years in prison on terrorism charges. This is the first time a diplomat on duty receives such a sentence. The court also sentenced Assadi’s co-conspirators, Nasimeh Naami, Mehrdad Arefani and Amir Saadouni…

8th Jan 2021 – The regime’s supreme leader, Khamenei, announced in a tweet that he will be banning all imports of coronavirus vaccines from the UK, US and France, to Iran. Soon after posting this tweet, Twitter removed it. The baseless allegations made by Khamenei include, the vaccine being ‘unreliable’ and suggesting that these countries…

12 Dec 2020 – In a historical turn of events, a group of United Nations experts from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, have written a well-documented letter to Iranian officials calling for an independent investigation into the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran. The letter was dated and sent on…

3 Dec 2020 – In June 2018 the Iranian regime planned an attack on the Free Iran Rally in Paris. This annual grand gathering was organised by international Iranian human rights communities. It was attended by tens of thousands of Iranians and members of the world community gathered in support of the crowds including former…

27 October 2020 – Reports from inside Iran are showing that the condition inside prisons is worsening, which is a big worry for prisoners who have to endure the winter months inside the regime’s prisons.  Iran Human Rights Monitor has been told that authorities at the GTP have increased pressure on prisoners in section 2 of the Greater…

26 October 2020 – Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on Iran has raised concerns that there has so far been no accountability for the violent crackdown against protesters in Iran. In his new report, he insists on the importance of Iran conducting an inquiry into the horrific mistreatment of arrested protesters from November 2019…