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Necessity of Human Rights as a Key Component of the US Negotiations with Iran
The Iran Working Group at the US Office of International Religious Freedom has sent following letter to President Biden and his administration. Behnam Mahjoubi, a Gonabadi Sufi who endured vicious physical and mental torture in the infamous Evin prison in Iran for the past two years, was murdered in...
IOPHR statement on the need to immediately terminate the infamous agreement between the Iranian regime and the Chinese government, known as the Strategic Agreement
The publication of reports about the disreputable agreement between the leaders of the ruling regime in Iran and the Chinese Communist Party has caused a great deal of concern. What raises these concerns is the refusal of the parties to clearly disclose the details of this agreement. In this regard,...
URGENT: Immediate Action needed by government Bosnia Herzegovina to Protect the Life of Mr. Amir Labbaf
According to reports, Mr. Amir Labbaf, an Iranian asylum seeker based in the Sadr camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been on a hunger strike since the 28th March in order to protest the lack of security and medical care inside the Sadr camp. Mr Labbaf, who is an official spokesperson for refugees in...
Commemorating 40th day since the murder of Behnam Mahjoubi – Public statement of Markus Grübel on discrimination and persecution of Sufis and Baha’is in Iran
“I am calling upon the regime in Iran to release all prisoners of conscience such as the Sufis and the Baha’i community, and to end the persecutions based on religion. No one should be discriminated against due to their religion or belief. With respect to the possible negotiations for a new deal on...
IOPHR Statement on the need to provide immediate Security for Mr. Amir Labbaf
According to reports received, Mr. Amir Labbaf, an Iranian asylum seeker based in the Sadr Camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has gone on a hunger strike in order to protest the lack of security and medical care in Sadr Camp. Mr. Labbaf was one of the eyewitnesses and victims of the widespread crackdown...
IOPHR’s Statement regarding the Dire Health Condition of Teachers’ Rights Activist Mr. Hashem Khastar
Once again, the IOPHR would like to draw the attention of all international organisations to the plight of prisoners of conscience and political prisoners in Iranian prisons, especially Mr. Hashem Khastar - the imprisoned teacher and activist, who has sadly spent large part of his life since 2004 in...
More MEP’s have joined to demand the Iranian government to investigate the death of Behnam Mahjoubi and to adhere to articles of their own law, which provides prisoners with appropriate care and medicine
Brussels 17th March 2021More MEPs have joined the call for an investigation into the dire conditions of the prisoners in Iran and the unlawful death of Mahjoubi, who was killed through poisoning while in prison during the last days of his sentence. WE, THE UNDERSIGNED MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN...
MEP’s demand the Iranian government to investigate the death of Behnam Mahjoubi and to adhere to articles of their own law, which provides prisoners with appropriate care and medicine
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, DEMAND THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT TO INVESTIGATE THE DEATH OF BEHNAM MAHJOUBI AND TO ADHERE TO ARTICLES OF THEIR OWN LAW, WHICH PROVIDES PRISONERS WITH APPROPRIATE CARE AND MEDICINE. The widespread crackdown on Gonabadi Sufis, which led to the...
The Urgent Request from 83 political prisoners and group of Iranian civil, political and human rights activists to the President and Members of the UN Human Rights Council to immediately address the dire situation of political and ideological prisoners in the prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Your Excellency the Chairman and members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Given that human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran have become systematic, and routine, and numerous repeated resolutions condemning the regime by the UN human rights council, have not resulted even...