Some 36,000 underage girls got married in Iran during the past year, says an official at the governor-general’s office in Iran’s Zanjan Province
Atrocities Human Rights Violation
Iran regime sinks in press freedom index after jailing more journalists
Media rights group Reporters Without Borders says Iran has slipped further toward the bottom of its World Press Freedom index because of an increase in arrests of Iranian journalists and citizen-journalists
Man hanged at Zanjan prison in Iran
According to IHR sources, Hedayat Mehrabi, 37, was hanged for murder charges on the morning of April 19. A well-informed source told IHR, “Hedayat was arrested around five years ago in the city of Kermanshah for murder a person. He was sentenced to death and the verdict was upheld by the Supreme Court around two years ago
Three men hanged at Ilam prison in Iran
According to Rokna, on the morning of Thursday, April 18, three prisoners were executed at Ilam prison. All were sentenced to death for murder charges. More details have not been revealed by Iranian authorities or media so far
Twelve conservationists detained without counsel in Iran
Twelve of the 20 environmental conservationists arrested in Iran’s Kurdistan Province in January and February 2019 remain in detention centers run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Ministry of Intelligence in the city of Sanandaj, the provincial capital, without access to legal counsel…
Iranians push back as officials threaten to block Instagram
Some Iranian officials have responded to Instagram’s decision to remove accounts it has associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) by pushing for a nationwide ban on the popular social media app…
Iran army and police exacerbated recent floods
Buildings erected by the Iranian army and police force, including a barrier and a leisure and entertainment complex, intensified the recent deadly flash floods in Shiraz southern Iran, according to a report by the fact-finding committee of the city council…
Unrest makes Iranian regime nervous
The main opposition to the Iranian regime, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), has indicated that the people of Iran are taking to the streets across the country in response to the regime’s reaction to the devastating flooding that has swept across large parts of the country over the past couple of weeks…
Iranian woman who became symbol of resistance sentenced to prison
An Iranian woman who removed her obligatory Islamic headscarf in a public protest in 2017 has been sentenced to one year in prison, her lawyer said Sunday. Vida Movahed became a symbol of resistance after authorities arrested her on the first day of nationwide anti-regime protests…
Shiite mystic released from Iranian prison
An appeals court in Iran ordered the official release of Shiite mystic Mohammad Ali Taheri from Tehran’s Evin Prison on April 17, 2019, nine years after he was imprisoned, his lawyer told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI)…
Iranian female boxer cancels return home after arrest warrant issued
Sadaf Khadem, who on Saturday became the first Iranian woman to contest an official boxing bout, has canceled her return to Tehran after an arrest warrant was issued for her there, her representative said on Wednesday…
