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Iran: Security forces used rape and other sexual violence to crush “Woman Life Freedom” uprising with impunity 

Security forces in Iran used rape and other forms of sexual violence, amounting to torture and other ill-treatment, to intimidate and punish peaceful protesters during the 2022 “Woman Life Freedom” uprising, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.   The 120-page report, “They violently raped me”: Sexual violence weaponized to crush Iran’s “Woman Life Freedom” uprising, documents in detail the harrowing ordeals

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Continued harassment of Narges Mohammadi and Nasrin Sotoudeh

Despite recent international praise and recognition, prominent Iranian women human rights defenders Nasrin Sotoudeh and Narges Mohammadi continue to be subjected to harassment by the authorities. Facing great health risk, both defenders are currently detained arbitrarily, and Ms. Sotoudeh ‎ is on a hunger strike to protest her detention conditions. The Observatory (FIDH-OMCT) and the League for the Defence of

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Narges Mohammadi: The war must end

The fact is that “war” and “tyranny” are two sides of the same coin, both destroying humanity and destroying people. Attacking helpless people, killing children, women and civilians, taking them hostage, bombing hospitals and schools and bombarding neighbourhoods with missiles has left the world in terror and despair. In the course of this, “religious tyranny” has inflicted further pain on

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Iran: the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Narges Mohammadi

Paris, 6 October 2023 – The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, journalist and spokesperson for the Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC), one of the FIDH’s member organisations in Iran. This is the fourth time that this prize has been awarded to a person or an organisation affiliated to FIDH.

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Belgian government encourages terrorism

De facto impunity granted by Belgian state to Iranian terrorist Assadollah Assadi violates basic human right The capitulation of the Belgian state to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s (IRI) attempts at blackmail will grant impunity to its most flagrant human rights violations. It will encourage the Islamic regime and their agents in Europe, as they have done in recent decades,

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Protest against Iran’s appointment as chair of the UN Human Rights Council’s Social Forum

Dear President of the UN Human Rights Council, Mr. Václav Bálek, It is with deepest regret that we have learned that you have elected Mr. Ali Bahreini from Iran to chair the “Social Forum”. Our disappointment is even greater when we read the recent OHCHR reports (https://www.ohchr.org/en/countries/iran), in which Iran was twice condemned for a large number of executions as

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The Foundation of the Committee to Support the Women’s and Youth Movement in Iran – The Mahsa Jina Amini Initiative

For thousands of years, Iran has made its contribution to the civilisation and culture of mankind; time and again, impulses have emanated from it that helped to shape history. Geographically located in what has always been a political and social flashpoint, the people of this country have always been challenged to assert their cultural and political identity. With the fall

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