2021-01-13- HRW- Iranian authorities continued to repress their own people. The country’s security and intelligence apparatus, in partnership with Iran’s judiciary, harshly cracked down on dissent, including through excessive and lethal force against protesters and reported abuse and torture in detention. Read more
Human Rights Watch Report: Iran Event 2020
Iran bans import of UK and US Covid-19 vaccines, saying they’re ‘completely untrustworthy’
09/01/2021 – France 24 – Foreign companies will not be allowed to test Covid-19 vaccines on the Iranian people, President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday, one day after the country’s supreme leader banned the import of UK- and US-produced jabs and said they were “completely untrustworthy”. Read more
UN Rights Chief Condemns Iranian Execution of Child Offender
FILE – United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet.
January 01, 2021 – By Lisa Schlein – VOA- GENEVA – U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has strongly condemned the Iranian execution Thursday of Mohammad Hassan Rezaiee, the country’s fourth confirmed execution of a child offender in 2020. Read more
Iran to execute man arrested as teenager, Amnesty says
Mohammad Hassan Rezaiee, who was arrested at the age of 16, has spent more than a decade on death row.
An exhibition calls for an end to executions in Iran on Trafalgar Square on Oct. 10, 2020, in London, England. Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images.
Dec 18, 2020 – Al-Monitor – Amnesty International is urging the Iranian government to call off plans to execute a man for a crime that took place when he was a teenager and whose trial the rights group said was grossly unfair.
Europe Says “No Business as Usual” with Iran After Hanging of Dissident Journalist
France Tweets Outrage over “Barbaric and Unacceptable” Execution of Rouhollah Zam
December 14, 2020—Major European countries have pulled out of a planned Europe-Iran Business Forum that was scheduled to begin today, December 14, in protest over Iran’s execution on December 12, 2020, of the dissident journalist Rouhollah Zam.
Weak and Ill with COVID-19, She Must Continue Serving Her 12 Years Behind Bars
December 2, 2020—The return of Nasrin Sotoudeh to Gharchak Prison, reported today, December 2, 2020, by her husband, is condemned in the strongest terms, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a statement today. Read more
Iranian Diplomat Accused of Plotting to Bomb Dissidents Goes on Trial in Belgium
Police officers at the court building in Antwerp, Belgium, on Friday, before the trial of the Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi, who is charged with planning to bomb a meeting of an exiled Iranian opposition group in France.Credit…Johanna Geron/Reuters
Prosecutors say the diplomat, Assadollah Assadi, was carrying out a plan organized by Iran’s intelligence services against an overseas opposition group.
IRANIAN-SWEDISH DOCTOR AT RISK OF EXECUTION: AHMADREZA DJALALI
26 November 2020, Amnesty International- On 24 November, Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali learned that prosecution authorities ordered for his death sentence for “corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel-arz) to be carried out. In a brief phone call the same day to his wife, he said he had been transferred to solitary confinement in section 209 of Evin prison in Tehran. He is at imminent risk of execution.
Iran diplomat on trial over plot to bomb opponents in France
November 25, 2020 – By SAMUEL PETREQUIN – BRUSSELS (AP) — The bomb was meant to explode in a Paris suburb during a huge rally being held by an exiled Iranian opposition group. It could have caused carnage.
