by Hediyeh Irandoust — 23March2023 In December 2022, just a few months after the beginning of Zhina’s Revolution, Behrouz Boochani started a 3 month tour around Australia, launching his second book “Freedom Only Freedom,” advocating refugee rights, meeting politicians, activists, artists and members of communities. One of the events Boochani…

by Farzad Seifikaran — 22March2023 In March and April 2022, a series of nationwide protests and gatherings of teachers took place in Iran. Every week, teachers, joined by supporting students, staged sit-in protests for their union demands. Their list of demands included the right to free education and the right…

by Shahram Mouselchi — 7March2023 The prison officials of the Zahedan Central Prison have threatened five detainees with the charge of “moharebeh,” a verdict that leads to execution, if they speak up about the rapes happening inside the prison. The oppression, violation, and pressure against the protesters arrested throughout the…

by Zamaneh Media — 7March2023 The Islamic Republic of Iran’s judiciary announced that a death sentence was issued to six Arab Ahwazi prisoners. According to the judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Majdam, Mohammad Reza Moghadam, Moin Khanfari, Habib Deris, Adnan Gheibshawi, and Salem Mousavi have been tried…

by Lily Mafi — 3March2023 In 2017, Niloufar Bayani headed to Iran to join the “Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation” (PWHF) on a conservation mission to help save one of the world’s most endangered species, the Asiatic cheetah. As a conservation biologist, Niloufar’s journey back home was a chance for her…

by Mohammad Reza Nikfar — 27February2023 These days in Iran, terrorism under the pretext of religion has taken new form in the regime’s latest attempt to poison schoolgirls. The violent desire behind this crime is the same as the one behind the murder of Zhina Amini and all other Zhinas…

by Sara Yavari and Farzad Seifikaran — 21February2023 Two inside sources have recently informed Zamaneh of several accounts of arrested women in Qarchak prison being taken to what has been called the “sharia room” for the purpose of interrogation. This room is conventionally used for conjugal visits for married prisoners…

by Aida Mohaghegh — 20February 2023 A recent wave of executions of political prisoners in Iran has raised serious concern about the welfare of political prisoners. In this post by Transparency Lab, we discuss two important sets of issues. First, we focus on some of the significant violations of defendants’ rights in the pre-trial investigation phase and during the trial. These include illegal arrests, the criminalisation of actions which are not outlawed by Iranian legislation, the deployment of deception and torture to extract forced confessions and the prohibiting of independent legal counsel. In the second part, we focus on the law itself, especially those articles that are used to issue the death penalty to political prisoners. We expose the lack of clarity in these articles and explain how this ambiguity empowers the Iranian judiciary to use the law as a tool of suppression against protestors and political dissidents.

by Shahin Nasiri *— 10February2023 The world media is once again full of images, stories, discussions, and trending hashtags about ongoing mass protests in Iran. Those who are familiar with Iran’s social-historical context know that this country is the land of popular uprisings, political struggles, and insurrections. Since the beginning…