Iran

Testimonies provide glimpse into daily reality of women and girls - REPORT- 06/03/2024

Amnesty International's latest report features excerpts from the testimonies of 20 individuals - 17 women, one girl, and two men - in Iran gathered by Amnesty in February 2024. These testimonies provide a frightening glimpse into the Iranian authorities' persecution of women and girls, designed to wear down their courageous resistance to the country's abusive, degrading and discriminatory compulsory veiling laws. Read more.

Iran's parliament had previously passed a bill that would impose further draconian penalties severely violating women's and girl's rights as well as increasing prison terms and fines for defying Iran's degrading and discriminatory compulsory veiling laws. Read more.

Tortured man facing protest-related execution - URGENT ACTION UPDATE - 08/02/2024

Iranian-Kurdish man Reza (Gholamreza) Rasaei, from the Yaresan religious minority, is at imminent risk of execution in relation to the 'Women Life Freedom' uprising after the Supreme Court rejected a request for judicial review on 16 January 2024. His death sentence was issued following a grossly unfair trial that relied on his torture-tainted forced 'confessions' obtained under beatings, electric shocks, suffocation, suspension and sexual violence. Take action.

On 16 December 2023, Branch 17 of the Supreme Court had upheld his conviction and death sentence for 'murder', which were issued by a criminal court. On 31 December, his sentence was sent for implementation, amid an ongoing alarming spike in executions across the country.

Tortured protester at grave risk of execution - URGENT ACTION - 02/02/2024

Tortured protester, Abbas Deris, is at grave risk of execution after the Surpreme Court rejected his request for a judicial review in January 2024. He was sentenced to death after a grossly unfair trial in relation to the November 2019 nationwide protests. His lawyers have submitted a special appeal in a desperate bid to halt his execution amid an ongoing spike in executions in Iran. Take action.

Joint NGO letter to member states of Human Rights Council - JOINT OPEN LETTER - 18/03/2024

Amnesty International was among a number of human rights organisations to call on member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council to support the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the extension of the mandate of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran at the 55th session of the Human Rights Council. The continuation of these two distinct and complementary mandates is essential for the Human Rights Council to fulfil its mandate of promotion and protection of human rights in Iran. Read more.

Amnesty's interactive dialogue with the Fact-Finding Mission can be found here.

Amnesty's oral statement to the United Nations Human Rights Committee can be found here.

Amnesty's oral statement to the United Nations Human Rights Council under Item 4 General Debate at HRC54 can be found here.

Executions plunge into new realms of cruelty - NEWS - 24/01/2024

The Iranian authorities' executions of two men after egregiously unfair trials mark a harrowing descent into new realms of cruelty.

At dawn on 23 January 2024, the authorities arbitrarily executed Mohammed Ghobadlou. a 23-year old protester with a mental disability, following a process and ruling shrouded in secrecy. On the same day, they also arbitrarily executed Farhad Salimi (see Urgent Action dated 12 January 2024 below), a man from Iran's Kurdish Sunni minority whose decade-long pleas for a fair retrial excluding torture-tainted 'confessions', were ignored. Read more.

Sign Amnesty International's petition calling for a halt to the execution spree here.

Swedish-Iranian academic at grave risk of retaliatory execution - NEWS - 22/12/2023

Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian academic who, who has been arbitrarily detained in Iran since April 2016, is at grave risk of imminent retaliatory execution. Read more.

Sexual violence weaponised to crush uprising - REPORT - 06/12/2023

Intelligence and security forces committed horific acts of rape and other forms of sexulal violence against protesters arbitrarily detained during Iran's 'Woman Life Freedom' uprising between September and December 2022. Prosecutors and judges were complicit by ignoring or covering up survivors' complaints. No officials have been prosecuted for the instances of rape and other sexual violence documented in this report. With no prospects for justice domestically, Amnesty International calls on states to initiate criminal investigations in their own countries against suspected perpetrators under the principle of universal jurisdiction, with a view to issuing international arrest warrants. Read more.

New wave of brutal attacks against Baluchi - NEWS - 26/10/2023

The Iranian authorities' relentless onslaught against weekly peaceful protests by thousands of protesters and worshippers from Iran's oppressed Baluchi minority in Zahedan, Sistand and Baluchistan province, escalated on 20 October 2023, as security forces resorted to severe beatings, unlawful use of tear gas and water cannons, and carried out mass arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture and other ill-treatment. Read more.

Women and girls face further violations of their rights - NEWS - 25/10/2023

Armita Garawand, a 16-year-old schoolgirl remains in a coma after falling unconscious on 01 October 2023 at a Tehran metro amid reports that a confrontation with somebody enforcing Iran's degrading and discriminatory compulsory veiling laws led to her hospitalisation. Read more.

Amnesty International is calling on the international community to demand that the Iranian authorities allow the United Nations fact-finding mission and other independent monitors to enter the country to investigate the circumstances leading to the hospitalisation, amid mounting evidence of a cover up by the authorities. Read more.

Jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate's health at risk - NEWS - 06/10/2023

Iranian authorities have been subjecting arbitrarily detained human rights defender and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Narges Mohammadi, to torture and other ill-treament by deliberately denying or severely delaying her access to adequate healthcare to coerce her into adhering to Iran's abusive and degrading compulsory veiling laws. This places Narges Mohammadi health at great risk, particularly as she has serious heart and lung conditions. Read more.

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