NEWS & UPDATES
IOPHR’s Statement on the occasion of March 8th – The International Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace
IOPHR notes while the Day for Women's Rights and International Peace is rightly celebrated around the world, there are sadly more than forty million Iranian women who are still held captive by a backward looking medieval ideology of the current Iranian Regime. Unfortunately, the Iranian women...
IOPHR Statement on the EU’s Discriminatory Approach Towards Human Rights
In disbelief, on Monday 1st March, the EU held a joint trade meeting with the Iranian anti-human rights system under the title of Europe-Iran Business Forum, in which unfortunately, the Deputy Director of the European External Action Service, Mr. Enrique Mora Benavente, opened the meeting as the...
MEPs urging EU officials not to participate in EU-Iran Business Forum
On the 26th February, 21 MEPs signed a letter to the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen and High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/ Vice-President of EU Commission, Josep Borrell Fontelles,...
Open Letter to the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy & Vice-President of the European Commission, Mr. Josep Borrell Fontelles, regarding the responsibility of the Islamic Republic of Iran for providing security for prisoners of conscience
Dear Mr. Josep Borrell Fontelles, I am writing to you on the behalf of the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR). IOPHR is an active independent non-for-profit organisation, and think tank based in the United Kingdom, with members spanning across European Union and North...
IOPHR Statement regarding the responsibility of the Islamic Republic of Iran in protecting the lives of prisoners of conscience
Following the cowardly murder of a prisoner of conscience, Mr. Behnam Mahjoubi, at the Evin Prison Medical Centre through poisoning, the IOPHR expresses its deep concern in regards to the safety and health of political and non-political Sufi prisoners in Iran. In this regard it should be noted that...
IOPHR Representatives Weekly USCIRF Roundtable
Here is the transcript of Hamid Gharagozloo's presentation at the USCIRF Weekly Roundtable with Gayle Manchin: Behnam Mahjoubi, the Gonabadi Sufi who endured the most vicious physical and mental tortures over the past two years, was murdered in the infamous Evin prison 11 days ago, and his lifeless...
IOPHR Statement in regards to the detaining of the body of the murdered prisoner Mr. Behnam Mahjoubi by the Islamic Republic of Iran
According to reports received, the security agents of the ruling regime in Iran, have refused to hand over the lifeless body of the brave prisoner of conscience, Behnam Mahjoubi, who was killed in the Evin prison hospital due to poisoning. The authorities have made the delivery of Behnam Mahjoubi’s...
IOPHR’s Statement in connection with the execution of Ms. Zahra Esmaeili and sixteen other prisoners in Iran
The IOPHR strongly condemns the execution of the innocent prisoner Ms. Zahra Esmaeili and 16 other prisoners in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, on the 17th February 2021. Zahra Esmaeili’s lawyer, Omid Moradi wrote on his Facebook page that Zahra Esmaeili suffered a cardiac arrest and died in a state of...
IOPHR’s statement in connection with the cowardly murder by the Islamic Republic of Iran of Mr. Behnam Mahjoubi whilst in prison
According to reports received in regards to Mr. Behnam Mahjoubi, a prisoner of conscience in an Iranian prison, after a period of several months of untold suffering and torture, in accordance with the official confession of certain judiciary officials, Mr. Mahjoubi was poisoned through prescribing of...