Free Maryam Akbari Monfared – unjustly imprisoned for 13 years!
IOPHR has initiated a petition for the unjustly imprisoned human rights activist Maryam Akbari Monfared. See below: Maryam’s Story Iranian Human Rights Activist Maryam Akbari Monfared was arrested on 31 December 2009 and was forcibly disappeared for five months. She...
IOPHR’s statement regarding the failed kidnapping of Ms. Alinejad by agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran
The regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran, from the very first days of its establishment, has consistently attempted to eliminate its opponents inside and outside the country, by measures such as assassinations, kidnappings and executions. According to some...
Necessity of Human Rights as a Key Component of the US Negotiations with Iran
The Iran Working Group at the US Office of International Religious Freedom has sent following letter to President Biden and his administration. Behnam Mahjoubi, a Gonabadi Sufi who endured vicious physical and mental torture in the infamous Evin prison in Iran for the...
Sex Slavery, Human Trafficking By Iran’s Ruling Regime Must Be Exposed
By: Hamid Gharagozloo, Op-ed Contributor as posted in Christianpost.com According to the reports of multiple international organizations, Iran is one of the primary sources and points of exchange – both in terms of import and export – of human trafficking...TWITTER FEED
Today, on Int'l Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women #IDEVAW2022, IOPHR stands with all women & young girls around the world, especially those who are suffering greatly at the hands of the brutal Iranian regime & commends their bravery in their fight for freedom. https://t.co/iRaXdOTd4V
With the initiatives of Iceland and Germany, and the efforts of NGOs and human rights defenders, the @UN_HRC has voted to establish a fact-finding mission to investigate human rights violation in the IRI, since the uprising that was sparked by the killing of #MahsaAmini.
#SS35 https://t.co/fAJnIjyrK6
🔴 BREAKING
At its 35th special session, the @UN Human Rights Council decided to create a new fact-finding mission to investigate "alleged #HumanRightsViolations in the Islamic Republic of #Iran related to the protests that began on 16 September 2022."
#SS35 https://t.co/d1wqPCC7fy
Reached by numerous testimonies that the IRGC has used various chemical gases during the attacks on peaceful civilians in the Kurdish-dominated parts of Iran. The outside world cannot continue to be silent. #MahabadMassacre
Iran's track record of widespread human rights violation & the killing of its own citizens is nothing new. People of #Iran have already expressed that the IRI does not represent them. This is a step in the right direction & we will be expecting further such actions from @EuroParl https://t.co/mzssnZ7hf3
Roberta Metsola
@EP_President
We will not look away from those who look to us from the streets of Iran.
Iran must stop its oppression of legitimate protests.
In response to Iran sanctioning MEPs, @Europarl_EN will no longer engage with Iranian authorities.
زن زندگی آزادی https://t.co/f6CKwilizQ
We will not look away from those who look to us from the streets of Iran.
Iran must stop its oppression of legitimate protests.
In response to Iran sanctioning MEPs, @Europarl_EN will no longer engage with Iranian authorities.
زن زندگی آزادی https://t.co/f6CKwilizQ