Political prisoner Mohammad Abdullahi and five other Kurds were executed in Urmia Central Prison on Tuesday, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported. Abdullahi, 35, married, from the city of Bokan, Kurdistan Province, northwest of Iran, was ...
Miners have been sentenced to imprisonment and flogging by the oppressive Iranian regime. The miners, from Bafq Iron Ore Company, had been condemned for their union protest in 2014. Bafq is situated in the central Iranian province ...
(New York) – Iran’s judiciary should vacate the death sentence of a 30-year-old man who faces imminent execution for Facebook posts linked to his account. On November 24, 2014, Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a criminal court ruling ...
Iran hanged 21 prisoners on March 4th — 15 for drug offenses, 6 for alleged hostility to God. The names of the six Sunni Kurds hanged for political reasons were released. The names of the drug offenders ...
Iran’s regime executed a gay adolescent in July – the first confirmed execution of someone convicted as a juvenile in the Islamic Republic in 2016 – Amnesty International reported this week. Hassan Afshar, 19, was hanged in ...
Every man in an Iranian village has been executed for drugs offences, a human rights group has claimed. Shahindokht Molaverdi, the country’s vice president for women and family affairs, claimed that men from Sistan and Baluchestan had ...
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) have reported that 21 people have been hanged in Iran since Monday, one of which was in public. In the Central Prison of Urmia (Orumieh), north-west Iran, on Tuesday ...
To step off a busy northwest London thoroughfare into Richard Ratcliffe’s flat feels like passing through the wardrobe into the dark horror of a fairy tale. Three months ago, he was an ordinary middle-class accountant, living with ...
The civil rights activist Esmail Ahmadi-Ragheb has been sentenced to six months in prison for “propaganda against the state” by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in Shahriar, Tehran Province, for posting content on social media that ...
At least 30 college students were arrested, interrogated and given 99 lashes each – all within 24 hours for attending a graduation party that included both men and women. Students at the mixed party, which happened in ...
Three Iranian men have been executed after being found guilty of charges related to homosexuality, according to a semi-official news agency. The men, only identified by their initials, were hanged on Sunday in the south-western city of ...
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