Human Rights

A team of Canadian lawyers is suing the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei, and several high-ranking commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on behalf of the family members of Ukrainian plane crash victims. According to Reuters, the legal team has asked for $1.1 billion …

A leaked recording of an exchange between an Iranian air-traffic controller and an Iranian pilot purports to show that authorities immediately knew a missile had downed a Ukrainian jetliner after takeoff from Tehran, killing all 176 people aboard, despite days of denials by the Islamic Republic. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy …

Authorities in the eastern province of Shandong have detained a Hui Muslim poet and author after he tweeted about the incarceration, surveillance and persecution of Chinese Muslims, both in Xinjiang and across China, RFA has learned. Poet Cui Haoxin—known by his pen name An Ran—was detained by state security police …

Student movement: Iranian Taekwondo athlete Kimia Alizadeh speaks to the media at a press conference in Luenen, Germany, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Iran’s only female Olympic medalist fled from the Islamic Republic and said she wants to compete for Germany. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) Iran’s only female Olympic medalist said Friday …

Öyrənci (Student movement): President Trump tweeted support to protesters in Iran, warning the country’s leaders not to kill demonstrators who took to the streets after the government admitted it had “unintentionally” shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet earlier this week. The British ambassador to Iran was also briefly arrested on …

On 14 July 2017, a group of people and activists from Urmia region formed a human chain around the lake to demand its protection,  despite the security forces’ intervention.  The drying level of the Lake Urmia has been gradually escalating since the early 2000s due to Tehran’s policies and global …

IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS (MARCH 13, 2018): The 10th annual report on the death penalty in Iran by Iran Human Rights (IHR) and ECPM shows that in 2017 at least 517 people were executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This number is comparable with the execution figures in 2016 and confirms …

Vali-Allah Taghizadeh the  South Azerbaijani prisoner from Ardabil went on hunger strike from Feb 14, 2018, to protest the lengthy process of examining his lawsuit. He has been in Tabriz central prison for more than 12 years. He has been lost at least 22 kilograms weight and continues to strike. It …

This time of year, we remember the Holocaust – the genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda and sadly, many other places. We remember the faces of the victims and the stories so horrible that hearing them can make one feel sick. And with all this to remember, there are still  tragedies …

On Dec. 27, Vida Movahed stood bareheaded on a utility box on one of Tehran’s busiest thoroughfares, waving her white head scarf on a stick. Within days, images of the 31-year-old, who was detained and then released a few weeks later, had become an iconic symbol. In the weeks since Ms. …