Dear Mrs Deputy High Commissioner Al-Nashif Dear Mr High Commissioner Türk, As Austrian-Iranian organisations working for human rights in Iran, we are concerned that the visit of Deputy High Commissioner Nada Al-Sharif to Iran is being misused by the Iranian regime for propaganda purposes. Numerous human rights groups worldwide have already appealed to the OHCHR to postpone the visit until
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We welcome the initiative of the Republic of South Africa to indict the State of Israel for genocide, the ongoing destruction of human life and livelihoods in Gaza at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, while also naming and condemning the atrocious crimes of Hamas. The United Nations organisations, as “representatives of the world’s conscience”, have so far
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Increased Pressures Against Women Political Prisoners In recent days, out of 61 women political-prisoners of Evin Prison, 13 women have been deprived of the right to make phone calls by the orders of security-judicial authorities. Among the 61 women political-prisoners of Evin Prison: 4 women are over seventy years old. 10 women are over sixty years old. Among the 61
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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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To civil society, The Islamic government of Iran has accelerated the movement of its killing machinery, this time in the media shadow of the war in the Middle East. In recent days, several people have been led to the gallows, including 33-year-old Kamran Rezaie in Adelabad prison (participant of a protest movement) in Shiraz, Sunni prisoner Ayoub Karimi in Karaj
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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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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
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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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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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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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