By Armin Baldwin
Iran’s Organization of Welfare recently issued a ban forbidding religious minorities from teaching in kindergarten due to a difference in “religious values.” The ban goes contrary to the country’s own laws, and applies to all kindergartens except those used solely by religious minorities.
By Saeed
In a shocking case of Human Rights violation, Iranian political prisoner Ameneh Zaheri Sari, a graduate student in accounting, is being held in Ahvaz Sepidar Prison. She is reportedly being denied medical care.
The prison authorities have allegedly prevented her from receiving medical treatment in a hospital outside the prison, and the prison hospital is unable to provide adequate care for this young woman.
By Armin Baldwin
Today, Amnesty International published an analysis of changes that are being proposed to the laws that affect ordinary Iranians charged with the most serious crimes. The amended laws, if passed, will permit the prosecution to deprive detainees who are arrested on “national security” charges, as well as certain other serious criminal charges, access to a lawyer for 20 days, and could be extended to cover the whole investigation phase. Sentences that carry the death penalty or amputation punishments are included under the proposed amended laws.
By Staff writer, SF
Citing serious concerns about some 90 individuals who were all under the age of 18 at the time of their alleged offenses, UN Human Rights experts, many of them Special Procedures Experts, called on Iran to immediately halt the execution of child offenders.
by Atousa Pilger
According to Amnesty International, in a display of disdain for both international law, as well as the rights of children, Mehdi Sohrabifar and Amin Sedaghat, two cousins under the age of 18, were flogged, and then executed on April 25th in Adelabad prison in Shiraz, Fars province, southern Iran.
by Atousa Pilger
Despite the almost complete defeat of ISIS, Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq and Syria are still facing persecution, but this time from Iran, according to the CEO of the Knights of Columbus.
Carl Anderson wrote in The Wall Street Journal that the religious minorities still live in “peril” because of the Iraqi government's tolerance of the Iranian Regime’s influence. This means that many minority groups, who fled the country to escape ISIS just a few years ago are either staying away or fleeing again.