Silent Genocide of Sunnis in Iran

Nov 15, 2024 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Human Rights, News

The IOPHR’s Report on Ongoing Human Rights Violations Against The Baloch Minority In Iran Was Presented At The October 8, 2024, International Religious Freedom Roundtable held In Berlin These days mark the first anniversary of the horrific, anti-Semitic terrorist...

Suspected IRGC Agents Attack a Journalist in London, UK

Apr 2, 2024 | Countering Extremism, Freedom of Religion and Belief, Press Release

IOPHR strongly condemns last Friday’s attempt to assassinate Pouria Zeraati, the television host of the “Last Word” program of Iran International channel outside his house in Wimbledon.  As a result of the attack, Mr Zeraati sustained knife wounds...

IOPHR Statement on the First Anniversary of the Bloody Massacre and Tragedy in Zahedan

Sep 30, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Human Rights, News, Press Release

One year has elapsed since Zahedan’s Bloody Friday. On the 30th of September last year, a horrifying act of violence occurred in Zahedan, Iran, an incident that continues to haunt every advocate of freedom. Unarmed Iranian worshipers, returning from Friday...

IOPHR statement on the Islamic Republic’s disturbing plans to take further innocent lives, through the issuance of more death sentences, including children as young as 15!

Dec 11, 2022 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Human Rights, Urgent Action, Women's Rights

Once again, one of the promising youths of Iran has become a victim of the tyrannical blood-thirty regime ruling Iran. As the young Mohsen Shekari, who in response to the innate human desire for freedom wanted to change Iran, sadly did not get the chance to experience...

The statement of the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR) regarding the brutal murder of Mahsa Jina Amini

Sep 23, 2022 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Human Rights, News, Urgent Action, Women's Rights

As it has been pointed out many times before in the statements of IOPHR, gender equality, ethnic and religious diversity have always been the main victims of the systematic and organized oppression of the ruling regime in Iran. The Iranian government’s murder of Mahsa...

Threats against the life of Amir Ali Labaf and his wife by infiltrated agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran within the Gonabadi Sufis

Sep 9, 2022 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Human Rights, News

On the evening of 6th September 2022, Mr Amir Ali Labaf, a human rights activist’s life was threatened by a group of agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran within the Gonabadi Sufi order, who also threatened to assault and rape Mr Labaf’s wife. According to the file...