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Human Rights
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The New “Hijab and Chastity” Law in Iran: A Tool for Suppression and Control

Women's Rights
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Speaker of the Iranian regime’s Majlis (parliament), announced the upcoming enactment of the new “Hijab and Chastity” bill. According to...

U.N. Resolution Highlights Religious Freedom Violations in Iran

Human Rights
A United Nations General Assembly committee has adopted a resolution expressing “serious concern” over the “ongoing severe limitations and increasing restrictions on the right...

Woman Human Rights defender Serveh Pourmohammadi sentenced to five years in prison

Human Rights
On 26 November 2024, woman human rights defender Serveh Pourmohammadi was sentenced to five years in prison on the charge of “forming a group...

Rights groups call for annulment of death sentences for Verisheh Moradi, Pakhshan Azizi

Capital Punishment
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and 17 other human rights organisations have issued a joint statement condemning the death sentences handed down to...

UN Calls for Accountability for Iran’s Crimes against Humanity During Woman, Life, Freedom Crackdown

Human Rights
In a statement released today, the International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFMI), established by the UN Human Rights Council in November 2022 to investigate...

A Call for Action Against Executions in Iran

Report
By Hoshang Amiri In a remarkable show of solidarity, 580 mayors in France have issued a collective call to end executions in Iran. Their statement supports the...

Hunger Strike Highlights Iran’s Escalating Execution Crisis

Capital Punishment
On November 26, prisoners involved in the “No Execution Tuesdays” campaign across 25 Iranian prisons marked their 44th week of a hunger strike. In...

Human rights lawyer sentenced to 13 years in prison

Human Rights
The human rights lawyer, Abdulfattah Soltani, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison by a revolutionary court in Tehran, Iran. Soltani was arrested last...

Iran bucks UN resolution condemning death penalty for minors, rights abuses

Capital Punishment
On November 20, the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee, whose focus includes humanitarian matters, approved a draft resolution on the deteriorating human rights...

Two political prisoners sentenced to death as Iran’s execution rate soars

Capital Punishment
Two Iranian political prisoners have been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court in Urmia in separate cases. The sentences for Mehran Hasanzadeh and Hamid...

US bill aims to protect citizens from Iranian murder-for-hire plots

Human Rights
ew bipartisan legislation aimed at increasing the penalties for crimes committed by foreign adversaries targets Iran’s government and the hired criminals it allegedly employs...
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