NEWS & UPDATES
Death Threats against Mr. Ahrari of Kalemeh TV & Oppression of Religious Minorities and Dissidents in Iran
In today’s weekly Webinar at the IRF Round table meeting, IOPHR representative in Washington, Hamid Gharagozloo, spoke about the urgency and imminent danger to the Sunni human rights activists, and journalist Mr. Ahrari of Kalemeh TV. A massive wave of attacks and smear campaign on social media...
IOPHR Letter to Ayatollah Sistani – A request to take a stand against the death sentence of Ruhollah Zam
Grand Ayatollah Sayed Ali Sistani, Office of the Supreme Religious Authority, As you are no doubt aware, it was during this time last year that Mr. Ruhollah Zam was invited to travel from Paris to Iraq, following a chain of correspondence attributed to your office, under ‘negotiations with yourself’....
Continual Oppression of Religious Minorities and Prisoners of Conscience in Iran
Today at International Religious Freedom Roundtable with Ambassador at Large Sam Brownback and USCIRF chair Mrs. Gayle Manchin discussed further on the subject of Iran Human Rights violations, Mrs. Manchin started her report about Soheil Arabi the prisoner of conscience who was transferred to...
Sex Slavery, Human Trafficking By Iran’s Ruling Regime Must Be Exposed
By: Hamid Gharagozloo, Op-ed Contributor as posted in Christianpost.com According to the reports of multiple international organizations, Iran is one of the primary sources and points of exchange – both in terms of import and export – of human trafficking and sex slaves in the world. The...
Weekly International Religious Reports On The Human Rights Violations In Iran
Today at the weekly International Religious Freedom Roundtable with Ambassador at Large Sam Brownback, the U.S.A representative of the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR), Sharareh Afshari talked about the release of Narges Mohammadi, a human rights and social activist who was...
Report on Dr Tabandeh’s Medical Condition during his two years of House Arrest
Today, 12th October 2020, on the anniversary of the birth of Dr Noor Ali Tabandeh, the IOPHR has received a report concerning the last two years of Dr Noor Ali Tabandeh’s life when he was under house arrest. The report highlights the circumstances surrounding his death written by a group of medical...
Iran’s disturbing record of juvenile executions over the past 40 years
Although Iran has the second highest number of executions in the world after China, the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran has had the highest number of executions in the world in proportion to its population for four decades. The regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran, not only has the highest...
Death Threat to the Founder of IOPHR, Dr. Azmayesh and his Family, Oppression of Religious Minorities, and Prisoners of Conscience
The U.S.A representative of the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR), Hamid Gharagozloo spoke at today’s International Religious Freedom Roundtable with Ambassador at Large Sam Brownback and USCIRF chair Mrs. Gayle Manchin about the death threats against the founder of IOPHR,...
IOPHR’s open letter to the UN Human Rights Rapporteur in regards to the critical situation of Mr. Behnam Mahjoubi
To Professor Javaid Rehman, United Nations Human Rights Rapporteur for Iran, The treatment of Gonabadi Sufis has been pointed out many times in previous IOPHR reports, being subjected to persecution by the Iranian security officials for many years. Especially, during the last two years, following the...