human rights

Qader Mohammadzadeh, a Kurdish political prisoner, is in critical health condition after being on hunger strike for 36 days, a human rights group said.

Haydar Ghorbani, a 48-year-old Kurdish political prisoner on the verge of execution in Iran, was tortured and forced to confess that he assisted the killing of three forces, his former cellmate Ebrahim Yousefi has revealed to Avatoday.

Footages leaked from Iran’s notorious Evin prison, known for holding political prisoners, show a grim world faced by inmates. 

Swedish public prosecutors on Tuesday said they have charged an Iranian citizen with participating in mass executions and war crimes during the final phase of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, Euronews reported.

Islamic Republic of Iran has executed three Kurdish detainees in Urmia Prison on Sunday morning, shows information received by Avatoday.

In a Seminar held by Avatoday in the United States’ Capital of Washington, prominent Iran-based dissidents have asked the US to do more to hold Iranian officials accountable for its human right violations.<

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch expressed their concern over Ebrahim Raisi's appointment as Iran's new president and called for him to be investigated over his role in what the rights groups have called the extrajudicial executions of thousands of political pr

In a leaked audio file, a former Iranian Ministry of Intelligence Security Deputy reveals that the Islamic Republic's judiciary authorized “thugs” to systematically crack down on demonstrators and beat detained protesters in 2009.

Three political prisoners from Iran's Ahvazi Arab minority have been subjected to torture and are taken to an unknown location, Ahwaz Human Rights Organization (AHRO) said in a statement released on Monday.

A group of Iranian lawyers released a statement to protest a lawsuit filed against Farzaneh Zilabi, a labor rights lawyer representing several workers of the Haft Tappeh sugarcane company, local reports said.