Amnesty International     |     September 21, 2023 Reacting to the news that Iran’s parliament has passed a new bill that would impose further draconian penalties severely violating women’s and girls’ rights as well as increasing  prison terms and fines for defying Iran’s degrading and discriminatory compulsory veiling laws, Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for the […]

State Department says it has been ‘assured’ Albanian government did not violate any human rights By Caitlin McFall    |   Fox News     |     6/20/2023 The State Department has found itself in a precarious position after dozens of Iranian dissidents seeking safe haven in Albania were reportedly injured Tuesday and one allegedly killed in a camp raid by state […]

Amnesty International     |     June 1, 2023 The Iranian authorities are carrying out a horrific state-sanctioned killing spree under the guise of judicial executions. Those executed include people convicted of drug-related offences, protesters, political dissidents, and members of oppressed ethnic minorities. Call for states to urgently intervene to pressure the Iranian authorities to halt all executions […]

The Washington Post     |     Babak Dehghanpisheh     |      April 26, 2023 It was 10:30 a.m. on a Tuesday when the teacher began receiving frantic calls. There had been a gas attack on the girls elementary school where she taught, in the Kurdish region of western Iran. She had not been in class that April morning but […]

CHILD DETAINEES IN IRAN SUBJECTED TO FLOGGING, ELECTRIC SHOCKS AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN BRUTAL PROTEST CRACKDOWN Amnesty International     |     March 16, 2023 Iran’s intelligence and security forces have been committing horrific acts of torture, including beatings, flogging, electric shocks, rape and other sexual violence against child protesters as young as 12 to quell their involvement […]

Bipartisan House Resolution Rejects Monarchic, Religious Dictatorship, Endorses a Republic in Iran Townhall     |     Majid Rafizadeh     |     Feb 15, 2023 As we marked the 44th anniversary of the 1979 revolution in Iran, we were reminded of the transformative power of people’s movements to bring about change. The overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy and the establishment […]

Bipartisan Senators Support Iran Uprising, Call for Increased Pressure on Iran Ayatollahs by OIAC      |     December 8, 2022 At the US Senate Kennedy Caucus Room, bipartisan Senators expressed support for Iran protesters seeking democratic change & called for more sanctions WASHINGTON, DC – At a briefing held in the historic Senate Kennedy Caucus Room, bipartisan […]

Activists say prisoners chanted antigovernment slogans; Parliament clears police in Mahsa Amini’s death. The fire Saturday at Evin Prison in Tehran, which the U.S. says is a political prison for dissidents and foreigners and is known to hold demonstrators from recent protests. WSJ     |     By Benoit Faucon and David S. Cloud      |      Oct. 16, 2022 […]

Thousands Rally at the UN, Voice Support for Iran Uprising, Condemn Raisi’s Presence OIAC      |     September 23, 2022 New York, September 23, 2022 – Capping a weeklong series of exhibitions and daily picket lines, some 3,000 Iranian Americans from across 40 U.S. states held a major rally at New York’s Dag Hammarskjold Plaza to denounce […]

France 24     |     8/28/2022 Washington (AFP) – An exile group announced a New York lawsuit against Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi Thursday, challenging US authorities to take action against him as he is expected to arrive next month for the UN General Assembly. The National Council of Resistance of Iran said the suit accused Raisi of torture […]