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The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organisation for Iran, the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI), welcome the findings published by a United Nations (UN) body last week, which underscored the grave and systematic violations of civil and political rights by the Iranian authorities. FIDH and LDDHI urge the government to fully

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.

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,

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

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