Authorities unleash wave of oppression after hostilities with Israel - NEWS - 03/09/2025
Iranian authorities are waging a terrifying crackdown under the guise of national security in the aftermath of the June 2025 hostilities with Israel. The deepening crisis underscores the urgent need for the international community to pursue concrete criminal accountability measures. Read more.
Amnesty International had previously urged the Iranian authorities to halt all plans to carry out arbitrary executions and protect all those arrested over accusations of espionage for Israel from enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment. Read more.
Officials must face accountability for torture - NEWS - 31/07/2025
On 30 July 2025, three prisoners - Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Shahivand and Mehdi Sharfian - had their fingers amputated by a guillotine machine in Urumieh Central prison, West Azerbaijan province as corporal punishment after a grossly unfair, torture tainted trial. Read more.
Millions more Afghans face expulsion - URGENT ACTION - 30/07/2025
More than one million Afghans, including those born in Iran and those living in Iran for decades, have been forcibly returned to Afghanistan in 2025 as the Iranian authorities wage an lawful expulsion campaign. The mass expulsions scaled up around the escalation of hostilities between Israel and Iran, with over half a million Afghans expelled since 01 June 2025, including several thousand unaccompanied children. Millions of others are at risk, including women and girls who must be treated as prima-facie refugees and not returned to Afghanistan where the Taliban are committing the crime against humanity of gender persecution against them. Take action.
Horrifying secret executions as political repression mounts - NEWS - 28/07/2025
On 27 July 2025, tortured political dissidents, Behrouz Ehsani, 69, and Mehdi Hassani, 48, were secretly executed in Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj, Alborz province. Read more.
On 11 June 2025, the Iranian judiciary announced that the Iranian authorities had executed Mojahed (Abbas) Kourkouri in connection with the 2022 Woman Life Freedom protests. Read more.
Iranian use of cluster munitions violated international law - NEWS - 24/07/2025
The Iranian forces' use of cluster munitions during the '12 Day War' with Israel was a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. Read more.
The Israeli military's deliberate air strikes on Evin prison in Tehran on 23 June 2025 constitute a serious violation of international humanitarian law and must be criminally investigated as war crimes. Read more.
Tehran prisoners at risk after Israeli strikes - URGENT ACTION - 07/07/2025
Hundreds of prisoners, including those arbitrarily detained, from Tehran's Evin prison are being subjected to cruel and inhuman conditions. They were moved to overcrowded prisons after Israeli air strikes destroyed parts of Evin prison on 23 June 2025. The Iranian authorities are concealing the fate or whereabouts of dozens of other prisoners, which may amount to enforced disappearance, a crime under international law. These prisoners are at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. Take action.
Urgent need to protect civilians amid escalation in hostilities - NEWS - 18/06/2025
As more and more civilians bear the cruel toll of the terrifying military escalation in Iran and Israel since 13 June 2025, and amid threats of further escalation in the conflict, Amnesty International is urging the Israeli and Iranian authorities to abide by their obligations under international law to protect civilians. Read more.
Human rights in Iran: Review of 2024/2025 - ANNUAL REPORT - 29/04/2025
Amnesty International's annual report on the state of human righs in Iran during 2024/2025 can be found here.
Authorities target women's rights activists - NEWS - 17/03/2025
The Iranian authorities have escalated their crackdown on women's rights defenders, journalists, singers and other activists demanding equality or defy compulsory veiling using arbitrary detention, unjust prosecution, flogging, and even the death penalty in a bid to quash Iran's women's rights movements. Read more.
Previously, Amnesty International had reported on how the authorities have adopted a new draconian law that further erases the human rights of women and girls, imposing the death penalty, flogging, prison terms and other severe penalties to crush ongoing resistance to compulsory veiling. Read more.
UN expands Fact-Finding Mission's mandate - NEWS - 03/04/2025
On 03 April 2025, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a landmark resolution, which extended and broadended the mandate of the Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, originally established in November 2022 during the Woman Life Freedom protests. Read more.
Amnesty International was among a number of organisations to sign a joint open letter calling for the attention of member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council to the ongoing full-fledged human rights crisis in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and urges their governments to support the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapotteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic or Iran. Read more.
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