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Iran: All-out attack on human rights: Submission to the 48th Session of the UPR Working Group, January – February 2025

In this submission, Amnesty International raises concern about the ongoing crackdown on the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly; arbitrary detention and unfair trials; enforced disappearance and torture and other ill-treatment; violations to the rights to freedom of religion or belief and the persecution of ethnic and linguistic minorities; LGBTI people’s rights;…

October 17, 2024
Research

Europe and Central Asia

Death Penalty

Iran/Sweden: Staggering blow to justice for 1988 prison massacres in Iran amid long overdue release of Swedish nationals

The shocking release of former Iranian prison official Hamid Nouri, sentenced to life imprisonment by a Swedish court in relation to his role in the 1988 prison massacres, following a prisoner exchange deal between Iran and Sweden, is a stunning blow to survivors and relatives of victims and contributes to the crisis of impunity in…

June 18, 2024
Research

Iran

Iran: Human rights in Iran: Review of 2023/2024

This is Amnesty International’s annual report on the state of human rights in Iran during 2023/24, subdivided by key human rights themes. It is part of Amnesty International’s annual 2023/24 report on the state of the world’s human rights.

April 24, 2024
Research

Iran

Death Penalty

“Don’t let them kill us”: Iran’s relentless execution crisis since the 2022 uprising

This research briefing documents the horrifying surge in executions in Iran in 2023, the highest in eight years. More than half of the executions were for drug-related offences amid a distressing return to a lethal anti-narcotics policy since Ebrahim Raisi’s rise to presidency in 2021. With systemic impunity in Iran, the briefing reiterates the need…

April 4, 2024
Research

Iran

Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Iran: Joint NGO letter to member states of Human Rights Council – 55th session

Amnesty International writes a joint letter with other human rights organizations to call on member states of United Nations Human Right Council to support the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the extension of the mandate of…

March 18, 2024
Research

Iran

Disappearances

Oral Statement – Interactive Dialogue with the Fact-Finding Mission on Iran – 55th session

Amnesty International calls on member states of the Human Rights Council to renew of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran and extend the mandate of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran.

March 18, 2024
News

Iran

Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Iran: Draconian campaign to enforce compulsory veiling laws through surveillance and mass car confiscations

Iranian authorities are waging a large-scale campaign to enforce repressive compulsory veiling laws through widespread surveillance of women and girls in public spaces and mass police checks targeting women drivers, said Amnesty International ahead of International Women’s Day. Tens of thousands of women have had their cars arbitrarily confiscated as punishment for defying Iran’s veiling…

March 6, 2024
Research

Iran

Discrimination

Iran: Testimonies provide a frightening glimpse into the daily reality of women and girls

This document features excerpts from the testimonies of 20 individuals – 17 women, one girl, and two men – in Iran gathered by Amnesty International in February 2024. These testimonies provide a frightening glimpse into the Iranian authorities’ intensifying persecution of women and girls, designed to wear down their courageous resistance to the country’s abusive,…

March 6, 2024
News

Iran

Censorship and Freedom of Expression

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…

December 6, 2023
Research

Iran

Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Iran: “They violently raped me”: Sexual violence weaponized to crush Iran’s ‘Woman life freedom’ uprising

Intelligence and security forces committed horrific acts of rape and other forms of sexual violence against protesters arbitrarily detained during Iran’s “Woman Life Freedom” uprising between September and December 2022. Prosecutors and judges were complicit by ignoring or covering up survivors’ complaints. No officials have been prosecuted for the instances of rape and other sexual…

December 6, 2023
Research

Bahrain

Arms Trade

The Repression Trade

October 11, 2023
Research

Iran

Death Penalty

ORAL STATEMENT ON THE OCCASION OF THE REVIEW OF IRAN BY THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE

Amnesty International has detailed in its submission to the Committee a decade of widespread violations of Iran’s obligations under the International Covenant on CIvil and Political Rights. The organization urges the Committee to highlight this crisis of systemic impunity and call on Iran to cooperate with the UN Fact-Finding Mission and other UN experts and…

October 9, 2023