In divided Iran, President’s death met by muted mourning and furtive celebration
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Iran proclaimed five days of mourning for President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday, though the muted atmosphere revealed little of the spectacular public grief that has accompanied the deaths of other senior figures in the Islamic Republic’s 45-year history. While government loyalists packed into mosques and squares to pray for Raisi […]
Mahsa Amini’s death in Iran custody was “unlawful”, says UN mission
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters A fact-finding mission mandated by the United Nations said on Monday the death of Mahsa Amini in custody of Iran’s morality police was “unlawful” and caused by violence and that women in the country remain subjected to wide-ranging discrimination. The death of 22-year-old Amini, a Kurdish Iranian woman, in September, 2022, while […]
Essay: Women’s activism in Iran continues, despite street protests dying down in face of state repression
MONA TAJALI, a scholar of women’s rights in Muslim cultures, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the ongoing struggle for women’s rights in Iran…
Sporadic protests continue in Iran as Mahsa Amini anniversary passes
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Sporadic protests continued in Iran on Sunday amid a widespread crackdown by security forces a year after a young Kurdish woman’s death in custody set off some of the worst political unrest in four decades. The death on 16th September last year of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman arrested […]
Iran’s security forces out in force a year after Mahsa Amini’s death
Reuters Iranian security forces cracked down on protests in Kurdish areas of the country on Saturday and briefly detained the father of Mahsa Amini, a year after the young woman’s death in custody set off some of the worst political unrest in four decades. The Revolutionary Guards detained a dual national suspected of “trying to […]
Heavy security in Iranian cities on anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in custody – rights groups, witnesses
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters Iranian security forces deployed in the hometown of Mahsa Amini in anticipation of a flare-up in unrest marking this weekend’s first anniversary of her death in morality police custody, witnesses, social media posts and rights groups said on Friday. The 16th September death of Amini, a 22-year-old Kurd arrested for allegedly […]
Digital rights: Iran steps up internet crackdown one year after Mahsa Amini death
SANAM MAHOOZI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that one year after nationwide protests erupted in Iran, people suffer rolling internet blackouts, but create an online freedom community to fight for digital rights…
Risking revival of unrest, Iran rulers tighten curbs on dissent
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters Iran’s clerical rulers are clamping down on dissent ahead of the anniversary of the death of a young woman in morality police custody, fearing a revival of nationwide protests that rocked the Islamic Republic for months. Journalists, lawyers, activists, human rights advocates and students have been arrested, summoned or faced other […]
Iran must stop executions of protesters, says UN fact-finding mission
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters A fact-finding mission mandated by the UN urged Iranian authorities on Wednesday to stop executing people who were sentenced to death for taking part in anti-government protests that rocked the country last year. The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September, 2022, while in the custody of the country’s morality police unleashed a […]
Essay: Repression of women points to worsening religious freedom trends abroad
NURY TURKEL, co-founder of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, and Rabbi ABRAHAM COOPER, director of global social action for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and vice chair of USCIRF, say that denying religious freedom and women’s rights go hand-in-hand…