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• Detained Protestors in Iran: Beaten, Tortured, Forced to “Confess”

  https://iranhumanrights.org/2020/02/detained-protestors-in-iran-beaten-tortured-forced-to-confess
  February 10, 2020 – Detainees held in Iran since the November 2019 street protests—including juveniles—are being beaten, forced to make self-incriminating statements and held in inhumane incarceration conditions, and their families are not being informed of their whereabouts and condition, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned from first-hand accounts in Iran.
  CHRI calls upon (...)

• Happy New Year 2020

  To all Iranian Christians in Iran and Abroad
  We wish a happy New Year of 2020 for all Christian Iranians and Christian friends of Iranians all over the world; and hope that the New Year will herald changes toward freedom and deliverance of the Iranian nation from tyranny, so we the Iranians can consider this New Year as a new beginning.
  The trend of cleansing the world of tyrannical and anti-human rights governments during the past six decades shows that the world community is (...)

• Special Report: Iran’s leader ordered crackdown on unrest - ’Do whatever it takes to end it’

  (Reuters) - After days of protests across Iran last month, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared impatient. Gathering his top security and government officials together, he issued an order: Do whatever it takes to stop them.
  That order, confirmed by three sources close to the supreme leader’s inner circle and a fourth official, set in motion the bloodiest crackdown on protesters since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
  About 1,500 people were killed during less than two weeks of (...)

• UN Must Investigate the Killing of Protesters in Iran

  A group of prominent Iranians have appealed to the United Nations to take immediate action on Iran and appoint a commission to investigate the human rights violations in the country during the recent nationwide protests.
  The letter, signed by prominent Iranian academics, lawyers, doctors, journalists, and human rights activists based in the United States, Europe, Canada, India and Iran, also urges the UN to demand the immediate release of protesters still incarcerated, and to allow the (...)

• Iran: Experts raise alarm at arrests and reported killings, internet shutdown

  GENEVA (22 November 2019) – UN human rights experts have expressed grave concerns about the situation in Iran as protests spread across the country over the past week.
  “We are deeply concerned at reports of killings and injuries, and that the authorities may have used excessive force against those participating in the protests,” the experts said. “We remind the authorities that under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, lethal force is to be used only when strictly (...)

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