By Pooya Stone
The Iranian authorities have transferred a political prisoner to a “worse prison” for condemning the Revolutionary Guards’ (IRGC) shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane and refusing to retract his comments on TV.
By Jubin Katiraie
During recent weeks, there have been various discussions over the downing of a Ukrainian passenger airliner in various media outlets.
By Pooya Stone
Last week, worrying news leaked out of the prisons of Iran. From extortion of the families of those arrested in November, to preventing patients from being sent to health care in Shiban Prison in Ahvaz following the outbreak of the flu. Violations of prisoners' rights continue in Iranian prisons.
By Jubin Katiraie
Another one of the men arrested during Iran’s nationwide anti-establishment protests in November was tortured to death, according to a Kurdish human rights group on Monday.
By Jubin Katiraie
On Friday evening [December 20], the director of the Red Crescent Society of Kurdistan Province Mohammad Bagher Mohammadi announced that the body of a 14-year-old porter was discovered at Zhalaneh Mountain pass in Sarvabad county.
By Pooya Stone
At the start of every new year, Iran Human Rights Monitor provides a report on the human rights abuses by the Iranian authorities on the Iranian people.
By Pooya Stone
The Iranian authorities’ decision to broadcast the confessions of protesters has faced criticism, even from the state-run media and its own officials.
By Jubin Katiraie
The tortured body of an Iranian protester was found abandoned in a river, according to a report yesterday by a Kurdish human rights group. The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights report said that the body of a man, identified as Hashem Moradi, was found in a river in Safi Abad Village in the western city of Javanrud.
By Pooya Stone
Soheila Hijab Bid Sarakhsi is a lawyer and human rights activist and a political woman imprisoned in Evin prison.
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