Iran

10 April 2024 – The death penalty or state murder is the Islamic Republic’s most important tool for instilling societal fear to maintain power. Executions in Iran increased dramatically following the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising, with at least 834 people executed in 2023. In 2023, more than half of all …

Date March 20, 2024 To the Members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, We, the undersigned human rights organizations, wish to draw your attention to the concerning human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran. As signatories to this letter, we respectfully urge you to support the renewal …

On March 18, 2024, as part of the 55th session of the Human Rights Council, a Side-Event on human rights in Iran was held in Room XXV of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. This initiative was organized by the Zagros Human Rights Center, an NGO with consultative status with …

55th session of the Human Rights Council (February 26 to April 5, 2024) Oral statement from the Zagros Center for Human Rights Item 3: General debate on the promotion and protection of all human, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development March 14, 2024 Ladies …

Education in the mother tongue is a fundamental right for all human beings! Linguistic diversity is an essential element of the cultural identity and spiritual heritage of humanity. Unfortunately, in many countries, including Iran, this diversity is threatened, and the fundamental rights of minorities, including the rights of the Kurdish …

Human Rights Council Fifty-fifth session 26 February–5 April 2024 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development   Written statement* submitted by Centre Zagros pour les Droits de l’Homme, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status …

The families of Pejman Fatehi, Mohsen Mazloum, Mohammad Faramarzi, and Vafa Azarbar, four Kurdish political prisoners in Iran, were summoned to Evin Prison on Saturday, January 27, 2024, a step that tragically indicates the possibility of an imminent execution. These men, accused and sentenced to death under highly questionable and …

Human rights organizations; Issuing the death sentence against four Kurdish political prisoners is strongly condemned and contradicts all the fundamentals of human rights With the death sentence of four Kurdish political prisoners named Pejman Fatehi, Wafa Azarbar, Mohsen Mazloum and Mohammad (Hajir) Faramarzi and the referral of the case to …

The Zagros Human Rights  Center today joins the Iranian people and the international community to commemorate the first anniversary of the assassination of Jina-Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish victim of police oppression in Iran. On September 16, 2022, his life was tragically cut short by the Iranian government’s moral police …

Within the framework of the 53rd session of the Human Rights Council, we will organize a panel on the human rights situation in Iran. Title : Human Rights in Iran and the Effectiveness of United Nations Instruments and Mechanisms. #53rd_session_of_the_Human_Rights_Council #humanrights #iran

Text of the call :   Urgent joint appeal to the international community: Stop Iranian regime’s brutal oppression of peaceful protesters   October 18, 2022   We, the undersigned representatives of World Civil society, human rights activists, and intellectuals, from across the world, strongly urge all governments, as well as …

On Tuesday, September 13, 2022, Mrs. Mahsa (Jina) Amini was arrested in one of the streets of Tehran by the police unit in charge of enforcing the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code for women. Mahsa Amini from Saqqez had traveled to Tehran, the capital of Iran, with her mother and …