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Iran: Draft hijab law tantamount to ‘gender apartheid’ say rights experts

·September 3, 2023·2 min read

“The draft law could be described as a form of gender apartheid, as authorities appear to be governing through systemic discrimination with the intention of suppressing women and girls into total submission,” the independent experts said. They stressed that the proposed parliamentary Bill to Support the Family by Promoting the...

Iran nuclear deal: Despite differences, still ‘best available option’, Security Council hears

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·July 10, 2023·3 min read

Briefing the Security Council on the state of the JCPOA, Ms. DiCarlo set the tone for the discussion by stating, “diplomacy is the only way to effectively address the Iranian nuclear issue.” The 2015 deal sets out rules for monitoring Iran’s nuclear programme and paves the way for the lifting of...

Record executions, large-scale arrests and detentions: New Iran human rights report

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·June 26, 2023·2 min read

“The overall human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran has markedly deteriorated against the backdrop of continuously worsening socio-economic conditions, aggravated by sanctions and the lingering impact of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Nada Al-Nashif, UN deputy human rights chief, presenting the report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva....

Iran: UN rights chief Türk warns against further ‘State-sanctioned killing’

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·January 11, 2023·2 min read

Volker Türk’s allegation that criminal proceedings and the death penalty had been weaponized to stamp out dissent, follows the execution in the last months of four people involved in nationwide protests, that were sparked by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, in September. “The weaponization of criminal procedures to punish...

Iran enriching ‘worrying quantities’ of uranium, in further blow for nuclear deal

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·December 21, 2022·2 min read

Rosemary DiCarlo said that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has reported that Iran intends to install new centrifuges at one of its fuel enrichment plants, and plans to produce more uranium enriched up to 60 per cent, at another. The agency, she continued, estimates that the country now has...

Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts

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·December 21, 2022·2 min read

“Like many countries, Iran has environmental issues. The sanctions not only prevent the Iranian Government from addressing them effectively; they contribute to making the challenges worse,” the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement. Tehran pollution, ‘no surprise’ Air pollution is a...

Iran: UN rights experts condemn protestor’s execution, raise alarm over detained artists

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·December 8, 2022·2 min read

Mohsen Shekari was hanged on Thursday morning after the Islamic Revolution Court in Tehran found him guilty of moharebeh or “waging war against God”. This was the first execution of a protester convicted for taking part in the recent anti-government unrest sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini...

UN rights body launches Iran human rights investigation

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·November 24, 2022·2 min read

The Council, meeting in special session in response to the crisis that was sparked by the death in September in police custody of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini, heard Mr. Türk criticize “the fortress mentality of those who wield power” in Iran. The “unnecessary and disproportionate use of force” must end,...

Iran: 40 people killed in protests over past week – OHCHR

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·November 23, 2022·1 min read

The development came amid ongoing nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Jina Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old from Iran’s Kurdistan region was arrested by Iran’s so-called “morality police” on 13 September for not wearing her hijab properly. According to OHCHR, thousands have been detained throughout the country for...

Iran: Thousands held for peacefully protesting must be released

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·November 16, 2022·1 min read

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, called on Tuesday for the immediate release of thousands of Iranian citizens who have been detained after peacefully demonstrating against the Government following the death of Mahsa Amini for breaking strict hijab rules two months ago....

Iran: Stop sentencing peaceful protesters to death, UN experts urge |

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·November 12, 2022·3 min read

“We urge Iranian authorities to stop using the death penalty as a tool to squash protests and reiterate our call to immediately release all protesters who have been arbitrarily deprived of their liberty for the sole reason of exercising their legitimate rights to freedom of opinion and expression, association and peaceful assembly...

Iran: Top rights expert welcomes Swedish verdict in mass executions case |

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·July 18, 2022·1 min read

The development came after Hamid Nouri – a former Iranian prosecutor and prison officer – was arrested at a Stockholm airport in 2019. He was later charged with war crimes and the mass murder of detainees in Iran in 1988, in line with an order issued by the then Supreme Leader...