human rights

The UN right office has condemned Iran’s execution of a man on Thursday who had been convicted of murder 12 years ago when he was 16, Reuters reported.

After the execution of Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam, France and other European countries pulled out of a business forum scheduled to start Monday in Tehran.

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International responded to the execution of journalist Ruhollah Zam by Iranian authorities, calling the move a “deadly blow” to freedom of expression.

Iran on Saturday morning executed dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam over his online work that the regime says it helped inspire nationwide anti-government protests in 2017. 

Iran’s Supreme Court on Tuesday has upheld a death sentence against journalist Ruhollah Zam who is arrested “for fueling anti-government unrest in 2017 on social media”, a judiciary spokesman sai

Amnesty International has launched a new microsite titled “A web of impunity: The killings Iran’s internet shutdown hid”, documenting how the lethal crackdown that left hundreds of people dead was hidden from the world.

Farideh Veisi, an activist from Kurdish city of Dehgolan, said Iranian security forces tortured her along with her husband accusing them of having ties with Kurdish opposition parties.

Maryam ebrahimvand, an Iranian writer and cinema director has been sentenced to 10 year and 6 months in prison for two of her movies, a family member told Avatoday.

A German-Iranian rights activist Nahid Taghavi has been arrested in her Tehran apartment by Iranian security forces, DW English cited the Frankfurt-based International Society for Human Rights.

An Iranian police officer, who was send out in the city of Mashhad to deal with a family problem, ended up killing a man who reportedly had a fight with his wife, two informed sources told Avatoday.