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Forbes, By Reza ShafieeSunday, 23 April 2017 Last week, Ebrahim Raisi, a notorious human rights abuser, announced his candidacy for the upcoming sham Iranian presidential elections on May 19. Raisi was a member of “Death Commission,” as it is known among Iranian political prisoners. The commission oversaw the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in the summer…

By Iran Probe staff Saturday, 18 March 2017 The United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres has introduced a report on the situation of human rights abuses in Iran to the current session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The report has been welcomed by human rights defenders in Iran for…

The GuardianFriday, 17 February 2017 Shahnaz Akmali, who was arrested last month, became outspoken after her son was killed in post-election unrest in 2009   Human rights campaigners have accused Iran of silencing the mother of a protester who was killed in post-election unrest in 2009.  Shahnaz Akmali’s son, Moustafa Karimbeigi,…

The Daily Star Wednesday, 4 January 2017   TEHRAN: An imprisoned Iranian activist has ended a 70-day hunger strike after officials agreed to temporarily release his wife following a public outcry, Iranian media reported. Their cause won widespread support on social media and protesters rallied Monday in support of the…

  Asharq Al-Awsat English Wednesday, 28 December 2016 Shocking footage of homeless people spending their nights in empty graves outside Iran’s capital surfaced, shocking the cleric-led regime even raising the alarms for the country’s president. Shahrvand daily had first issued a report touching on the subject on Tuesday. Images by…

  ctv news By Mansoureh Behkish On the 16th of September, Iranian human rights activist Mansoureh Behkish went to Tehran International airport with her bags packed for a 3 month visit to Ireland. Ms. Behkish’s beloved mother had passed away in January of this year, and after settling her affairs,…

By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, Huffington PostSaturday, 20 August 2016 “You [Iranian officials] will be in the future etched in the annals of history as criminals. The greatest crime committed under the Islamic Republic, from the beginning of the Revolution until now, which will be condemned by history, is this crime…

By Brian Murphy, Washington PostFriday, 12 August 2016 In 1988, nearly a decade after Iran's Islamic revolution, the country's leader-in-waiting faced a decision. He could stay silent as Iran stepped up a campaign of mass executions, torture and gulag-style imprisonment against perceived internal opponents. Or he could follow his conscience…

NCRIWednesday, 10 August 2016 A shocking audio recording has been published for the first time of Khomeini’s former heir-apparent, Hossein-Ali Montazeri, acknowledging the brutal nationwide massacre in Iran in 1988 of activists of the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK). Montazeri, who was…

Al-Arabiya Wednesday, 10 August 2016   Prominent Iranian activist, member of the teachers’ union and former political prisoner Hashem Khastar, said that executions in Iran are carried out in mock courts that resemble “dark rooms” amid the absence of minimum of legal standards. Khastar, who resides in Mashhad in northwestern…