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Iran executes six more Kurds without fair trial

Political prisoner Mohammad Abdullahi and five other Kurds were executed in Urmia Central Prison on Tuesday, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported.  Abdullahi, 35, married, from the city of Bokan, Kurdistan Province, northwest of Iran, was ...

Miners from central Iran sentenced to flogging

Miners have been sentenced to imprisonment and flogging by the oppressive Iranian regime. The miners, from Bafq Iron Ore Company, had been condemned for their union protest in 2014. Bafq is situated in the central Iranian province ...

Iran: Death sentence for Facebook posts

(New York) – Iran’s judiciary should vacate the death sentence of a 30-year-old man who faces imminent execution for Facebook posts linked to his account. On November 24, 2014, Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a criminal court ruling ...

Iran murders 15 drug offenders

Iran hanged 21 prisoners on March 4th — 15 for drug offenses, 6 for alleged hostility to God. The names of the six Sunni Kurds hanged for political reasons were released. The names of the drug offenders ...

Iran executes gay teenager in violation of international law

Iran’s regime executed a gay adolescent in July – the first confirmed execution of someone convicted as a juvenile in the Islamic Republic in 2016 – Amnesty International reported this week. Hassan Afshar, 19, was hanged in ...

Iran executes every man in an Iranian village

Every man in an Iranian village has been executed for drugs offences, a human rights group has claimed. Shahindokht Molaverdi, the country’s vice president for women and family affairs, claimed that men from Sistan and Baluchestan had ...

Iran Regime hangs 21 people

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) have reported that 21 people have been hanged in Iran since Monday, one of which was in public. In the Central Prison of Urmia (Orumieh), north-west Iran, on Tuesday ...

The British family destroyed by the Iranian government

To step off a busy northwest London thoroughfare into Richard Ratcliffe’s flat feels like passing through the wardrobe into the dark horror of a fairy tale. Three months ago, he was an ordinary middle-class accountant, living with ...