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• ꤮ 10 human rights organizations letter to EU

  Your Excellency,
  We, the undersigned human rights and civil society organizations, wish to express our deep concern over the human rights violations against the Bahá’í community occurring in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Specifically, we would like to draw your attention to the situation of thirty two members of the Bahá’í community in the province of Golestan who have recently been sentenced to a collective 238 years in prison for practicing their religion. This has been the biggest mass (...)

• Exclusive: Audio Files Reveal New Details in Sexual Assault Allegations Against Iranian Parliament Member

  Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – HRANA has obtained verified audio excerpts of conversations between Iranian Parliament member Salman Khodadadi and some of the women whom he allegedly sexually abused. The conversations are in the Turkic/Azeri language (the video includes a Persian translation), HRANA has provided an English translation below:
  First Segment
  Salman Khodadadi: I’ll tell you what’s going to happen at the end of all this. Whoever wishes to ruin me will fail. (...)

• Iranian Journalist and Political Activist Detained For Criticizing Iran’s Judiciary

  Well-known journalist and political activist Hengameh Shahidi was arrested upon leaving a hospital in Iran’s Kish Island after strongly criticizing state policies on social media and in interviews with foreign media.
  “My mother Ms. Hengameh Shahidi was arrested this morning by the security establishment and taken to jail after she was discharged from a hospital where she was treated for a heart attack that she suffered a few days earlier,” her daughter Parmis Taherian tweeted on June 26, (...)

• AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT Iran: Ensure right to safe drinking water and release peaceful protesters in Khuzestan

  > 6 July 2018 > Index: MDE 13/8756/2018 > > Iran: Ensure right to safe drinking water and release peaceful protesters in Khuzestan > > Iranian authorities must carry out an impartial and thorough investigation into reports that security forces used unnecessary and excessive force, possibly including firearms, against generally peaceful protesters during recent protests in Khuzestan province, where people have been demanding clean and safe drinking water, Amnesty International said (...)

• Imprisoned Rights Defender Narges Mohammadi Gives Message of Hope and Strength in Accepting 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prize

  April 15, 2018 — Prisoner of conscience Narges Mohammadi was unable to accept the 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prize in person in Columbus, Ohio where the American Physical Society (APS) awarded it to her but she sent a message of hope and strength in a powerful speech.
  “The path to democracy in Iran lies not through violence, war, or military action by a foreign government, but through organizing and strengthening civil society institutions. The government knows this only too well,” said Mohammadi (...)

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