A document was leaked from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) detailing how Nika Shakarami, a 16-year-old girl who disappeared from a protest in 2022 before her body was found a few days later, was molested and killed by the regime’s security forces, BBC reported on Tuesday. Shakarami disappeared from an anti-regime protest in … Read more
Several American rappers and the Recording Academy have expressed their support for Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who was sentenced to death last week for participating in the Woman, Life, Freedom protests that swept Iran in 2022. Salehi was prosecuted on charges of corruption on earth, a charge used often by the regime in Iran … Read more
Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi – who was arrested during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests that swept Iran in 2022 – was sentenced to death, Salehi’s lawyer, Amir Raesian, told the Shargh newspaper on Wednesday. Salehi was prosecuted on charges of corruption on earth, a charge used often by the regime in Iran to target … Read more
An Iranian Baloch human rights activist is at risk of being deported from Sweden to Iran, Iranian human rights organizations warned this week. According to the Baloch human rights organization Haalvsh, the activist Asma MirBalochzahi, also known as Asma Baloch, grew up in Bam in the Kerman province of Iran. According to Haalvsh, MirBalochzahi … Read more
Shervin Hajipour, the Iranian singer whose song Baraye (“For”) became an anthem of the “Women, Life, Liberty” protests in 2022, was sentenced on Friday to three years and eight months in prison and ordered to write a song against the US. The singer was sentenced to eight months in prison for publishing “propaganda against … Read more
Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, called on Iranians to boycott the upcoming elections in Iran in a post on Saturday. “The Islamic Republic deserves national sanctions and global condemnation. Sanctioning elections is not only a political necessity but also a moral duty,” wrote Mohammadi. “Sanctioning elections under … Read more
Safa Aaeli, the uncle of Mahsa Amini, was sentenced to five years and four months in prison, as well as several other penalties, for supporting protests against the regime that swept Iran after Amini was killed in September 2022, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. Aaeli was charged with plotting and conspiring … Read more
Kurdish Sunni cleric Mohammad Khezrnejad has been sentenced to death for eulogizing a young man who was killed during the protests that swept Iran in 2022 after the killing of Mahsa Amini by the Tehran “morality police,” according to Iranian human rights organizations. Khezrnejad was arrested in November 2022 after delivering a speech at … Read more
An Iranian Baloch student was found dead after being arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the Sistan-Baluchistan Province in southeastern Iran on Tuesday, local news sites and human rights groups reported on Thursday. The student, identified as 19-year-old Sepehr Shirani, was arrested on Tuesday due to his posting content on social media … Read more
Mohammad Qobadlou, who was arrested after taking part in the Woman, Life, Freedom protests that swept Iran after the killing of Mahsa Amini in 2022, is in imminent risk of being executed by the regime, according to Iranian human rights agencies and Qobadlou’s lawyer. Qobadlou was sentenced to death in late 2022, in the … Read more
