All parties must refrain from attacks on energy infrastructure - NEWS - 1/03/2026
Israel, the United States and the Islamlic Republic of Iran must immediately cease or refrain from unlawful attacks on energy infrastructure, including facilities providing essential services such as electricity, heating and running water. Such attacks pose the risks of devastating civilian harm and environmental impact. Read more.
Amid rapid expansion of regional hostalities across the Middle East following the ongoing joint United States-Israel attacks on Iran and the subsequent wave of Iranian retalitory attacks across the region, Amnesty International is issuing an urgent call on all parties to protect civilians, adhere to international humanitarian law, in particular by ending unlawful attacks, such as deliberate, indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructures. Read more.
Prisoners at risk during ongoing US and Israeli strikes - URGENT ACTION - 06/03/2026
Ongoing US and Israeli air strikes near prisons, as well as the targeting of security facilities where detainees are held, are placing prisoners, including children, at risk. The Iranian authorities' refusal to release all those arbitrarily detained and grant humanitarian release to others imprisoned is knowingly placing those prisoners at risk of death or serious harm. Some prisoners have been transferred to unidentified locations or areas near potential military objectives, intensifying concerns for their safety. The authorities are also subjecting prisoners to enforced disappearance and denying them access to adequate food and water. Take action.
Children among 30 people facing death penalty - URGENT ACTION UPDATE - 19/02/2026 - NEWS - 20/02/2026
Following repeated threats of expediated executions, Iranian authorities have sentenced at least eight people to death in February 2026. At least 22 others, including two children, are at risk of the death penalty amid fast-tracked, torture-tainted, grossly unfair trials for alleged offences committed during the January 2026 uprising. Read more. Take action.
Thousands of people arbitrarily detained in relation to the nationwide uprising in Iran are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment, including sexual violence, and grossly unfair trials leading to prolonged imprisonment and the death penalty. Main remain forcibly disappeared. Concern for those detained in connection to the protests that erupted on 28 December 2025 are intensified as the head of the judiciary has ordered prosecutors to 'act without leniency' and senior officials have equated protestig with capital offences. Take action.
What happended at the protests in Iran - CAMPAIGNS - 26/01/2026 - PETITION 15/01/2026
Protests erupted in Iran on 28 December 2025. People across the country, outraged at decades of repression, were demanding fundamental change and a political system that respects human rights and dignity. Iranian authorities responded with an unprecedented deadly crackdown and, since 08 January 2026, cut all internet access to conceal their crimes. Security forces have used unlawful force, firearms and other prohibited weapons, against protesters, which resulted in mass killings and serious injuries. Read more.
Sweeping arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, bans on gatherings and attacks to silence families of victims mark the suffocating militarisation imposed in Iran by the Islamic Republic's authorities in the aftermath of protest massacres. Read more.
Verified images and credible information from eye witnesses reveal mass unlawful killings committed on an unprecedented scale amidst an ongoing internet shutdown imposed by the authorities. Read more.
On 08 January 2026, Iranian authorities imposed an internet and telecommunications blackout in an attempt to hide the violations occurring during the deadly crackdown on protesters. Read more.
Iranian authorities have unleashed a deadly crackdown on protesters across the country since 28 December 2025, marked by security forces unlawful use of force and firearms, and mass arbitrary arrests. Read more.
Amnesty International's oral statement to the special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the deteriorating situation of human rights in Iran can be found here.
Amnesty was among a number of civil society organisations to sign a join letter urging the Human Rights Council to urgently convene a special session to address the unprecedented escalation in mass unlawful killings of protesters. Read more.
A petition calling for an end to the protest massacres can be found here.
Over 1,000 people executed - NEWS - 26/09/2025
Iranian authorities have executed over 1,000 people so far in 2025, the highest number of yearly executions in Iran that Amnesty International has recorded in at least 15 years. Amnesty is calling on the Iranian authorities to establish an immediate moratorium on executions as a first step, and issuing an urgent plea to other states to immediately intervene to pressure the Iranian authorities to halt all planned executions. Read more.
United Nations member states must urgently press authorities to halt executions after a horrifying increase. Read more.
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