Continued human rights abuses in Iran, crackdowns and arrests and killings of protesters

As human rights abuses continue in Iran, the detention of civil society, labour, student activists, and women activists and journalists continue in various Iranian cities. Thousands have been detained, hundreds killed, and dozens were missing during recent Iran protests since the third week of November 2019. Iranian regime officials have also cut off Internet networks across the country, preventing leaks of current news and events abroad. News sources report that many students, labour, media, and women’s activists have been abducted and detained in recent weeks. According to reports, on Monday,…

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Independent Human Rights Experts Sound Alarmed on Suppression in Iran

Following the protests that began on Friday, 15 November, against the 300 percent increase in gasoline prices across Iran; the Iranian government moved to repress forcefully the people and especially the youth. The United Nations posted an article on its website titled “Independent rights experts sound alarmed at Iran protest crackdown, internet blackout”. The article said in part: “Reports of killed and maimed demonstrators, and a continuing nationwide internet shutdown in Iran’s now week-long protests are of ‘grave concern’, and the Government and authorities must ensure rights of expression and…

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Uprising Against Iran’s Mullahs

Tens of thousands of people have been taking to the streets in Iran since last Friday demonstrating against the regime. The reason: While the Islamist regime funds terrorism throughout the Middle East, it oppresses its own people and exploits the people. The mullahs’ security forces and militias respond to the protests with brute force – and shut down the Internet to cover up the violence. In dozens of cities, demonstrators have been attacking government buildings, state-owned banks, state-owned firms, and the regime’s so-called seminaries, where they activate their reactionary ideology,…

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Three Women Killed by Security Forces in Iran Protests

Three women have been killed by suppressive forces in Mahshahr and Shiraz during the ongoing Iran protests. On Tuesday, a young female student was shot at from a state security force helicopter in Shiraz, and on Monday, two women were killed by agents wielding heavy machineguns in Mahshahr. This brings the total number of women killed by regime agents during the ongoing protests to at least six. There were at least 16 people killed, 150 arrested, and a large number wounded in Mahshahr on Monday, as anti-riot forces using heavy machineguns…

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Memo to Zarif: Stop Taking Dual Nationals as Hostages

Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s statement today that he has the “authority” to exchange Iranian-Americans imprisoned in Iran with the US is a glaring admission that these prisoners are being held as political hostages. “If ever there was a question that imprisoned dual nationals in Iran are being used as political pawns, Zarif publicly admitted today that his government has taken these people as hostages,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). “The foreign minister spoke as though he was trying to make a…

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3,700 people were arrested during Iran protests, lawmaker says

Roughly 4000 people were arrested during recent anti-Regime protests in Iran, one of the country’s lawmakers claimed on Tuesday. Police and Sepah also arrested a large number of demonstrators in Tehran protests. The number is far higher than the 450 people Iranian authorities previously said were detained. US officials had put the number held at 1,000. Tehran member of parliament Mahmoud Sadeghi said Tuesday that 3,700 people had been arrested, including 40 to 68 students, in 5 days of protests that broke out in late December. He added that “due…

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