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Friday prayer leaders operate beyond religious roles, serving as political and ideological instruments of the state.
Iran HRM examines statements by Mohammad-Mehdi Hosseini Hamedani on punishing dissent, mandatory hijab enforcement, and restrictions on civil freedoms.
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IRAN HRM retweeted
I am joining a solidarity action with political prisoners in Iran participating in #NoToExecutionTuesdays. On Tuesday October 27, I'm going to start a 24-hour hunger strike.
#hungerstrike #Iran #stopexecutions #abolishdeathpenalty
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IRAN HRM retweeted
Norway is deeply concerned about the human rights situation in Iran. We call on Iran to cease the use of & impose a moratoriumon on executions. Najmeh Amini’s death sentence should be overturned. Amirsalar Davoudi must be released. regjeringen.no/en/whats-new/…
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IRAN HRM retweeted
On Wednesday 28 October from 3pm (New York time), I will present my report on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN General Assembly, sharing the floor with the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran.
My report examines the harm suffered by those killed and executed; those detained and disappeared; human rights defenders, documenters and mobilisers; and the harm to people’s livelihoods and the environment. In each of these areas, the impact of the hostilities with the United States and Israel has compounded the repression by the Iranian authorities. In each area, harms from outside and inside the country converge. War did not reduce repression but intensified it, and the heaviest burden fell on those already marginalised. My recommendations are therefore addressed to all parties: Iran, the United States and Israel, and all States.
My report: ohchr.org/en/documents/count…
Persian translation of my report: ohchr.org/sites/default/file…
Watch the interactive dialogue: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1n/k1…
For the three recent UN reports on Iran, by the Secretary-General, the Fact-Finding Mission and my mandate, see my earlier post: xitter.cf/drmaisato/status/21136…
سه گزارش سازمان ملل متحد درباره وضعیت حقوق بشر در جمهوری اسلامی ایران در طی هفته‌های اخیر منتشر شده‌اند.
یافته‌های گزارش کمیته مستقل بین‌المللی حقیقت‌یاب نشان می‌دهد که سرکوب اعتراضات دی ۱۴۰۴ از سوی مقام‌های جمهوری اسلامی، مصداق جنایت علیه بشریت از جمله قتل، حبس، شکنجه و سایر اعمال غیرانسانی است. این گزارش همچنین اعلام می‌کند که دلایل معقولی برای این باور وجود دارد که ایالات متحده آمریکا، با حمله بدون تمایز (میان نظامیان و غیرنظامیان) به دبستان در میناب و استفاده از مهمات خوشه‌ای در محدوده یک مرکز ورزشی و خانه‌های مسکونی در لامرد مرتکب جنایت جنگی شده است.
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گزارش دبیرکل سازمان ملل بازه زمانی مرداد ۱۴۰۴ - اردیبهشت ۱۴۰۵ را پوشش می‌دهد. این گزارش نشان می‌دهد که مقام‌های جمهوری اسلامی، چطور با توسل به امنیت ملی و علیرغم وجود ملاحظات جدی در مورد دادرسی عادلانه، اعدام‌ها را گسترش دادند، بازداشت‌های گسترده انجام دادند و اینترنت را قطع کردند. تحریم‌ها، مخاصمات و قطع اینترنت تنگنای اجتماعی اقتصادی موجود از پیش را عمیق‌تر کرد و حقوق اجتماعی اقتصادی را تحت‌تأثیر قرار داد. توصیه‌های این گزارش شامل تغییرات ساختاری است: اصلاحات در سطوح قانون‌گذاری و قانون اساسی و تعلیق مجازات اعدام. این گزارش از دولت‌های عضو درخواست می‌کند که به مخاصمات پایان دهند، و حقوق بشر را در مراودات دیپلماتیک و اقتصادی با ایران بگنجانند.
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گزارش من حول آسیب‌ها تنظیم شده است: کشته‌شده‌ها و اعدام‌شده‌ها، بازداشت‌شده‌ها و ناپدیدشدگان، مدافعان، مستندکنندگان و سازمان‌دهندگان، معیشت مردم، و محیط زیست. در هرکدام از این موارد، منبع آسیب از خارج و داخل به هم می‌رسند. هشدارهای مربوط به حملات قریب‌الوقوع در شبکه‌های اجتماعی منتشر می‌شدند؛ شبکه‌هایی که به‌دلیل قطعی اینترنت اعمال‌شده از سوی مقام‌ها جمهوری اسلامی، دیگر در دسترس نبودند. همچنین گزارش‌هایی وجود دارد مبنی بر اینکه هنگام حملات، زندانیان در سلول‌های خود محبوس نگه داشته شدند. جنگ نه‌تنها از شدت سرکوب نکاست، بلکه آن را تشدید کرد: معترضان به‌عنوان عوامل کشورهای متخاصم معرفی شدند و اعدام‌ها در سراسر این دوره ادامه یافت. سنگین‌ترین بار این وضعیت بر دوش کسانی افتاد که پیش از این نیز در حاشیه جامعه قرار داشتند. از همین رو، توصیه‌های من همه طرف‌ها را مخاطب قرار می‌دهد: ایران، ایالات متحده و اسرائیل، و همچنین تمامی دولت‌ها.
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چیزی که در بین این گزارش‌ها مشترک است، مصونیت از مجازات است. در جریان هیچ‌گونه تحقیق و تفحصی از سوی مقام‌های ایرانی درباره کشتارهایی که نیروهای آنان مرتکب شده‌اند، نیستم؛ ایالات متحده و اسرائیل نیز هیچ یافته‌ای درباره حملات خود منتشر نکرده‌اند. وقتی مسئولان حاضر نیستند درباره اقدامات خود تحقیق کنند، مستندسازی مستقل تنها چیزی است که میان قربانیان و محو شدن حقیقت و خاطره آنان از تاریخ قرار می‌گیرد. این گزارش‌ها که بر پایه تلاش‌های بازماندگان، خانواده‌ها و جامعه مدنی تهیه شده‌اند، همان سابقه مستند و ماندگاری هستند که پاسخ‌گویی در آینده به آن وابسته خواهد بود.
تا آن زمان، این گزارش‌ها همگی بر ضرورت اقداماتی که در حال حاضر باید انجام شوند تأکید دارند: پایان دادن به مخاصمات از طریق دیپلماسی، با قرار دادن حقوق بشر در کانون هرگونه توافق؛ توقف اعدام‌ها؛ آزادی افرادی که به‌دلیل اعمال حقوق خود بازداشت شده‌اند؛ تحقیق مستقل درباره تک‌تک مرگ‌ها؛ و فراهم کردن دسترسی سازوکارهای سازمان ملل متحد.
IRAN HRM retweeted
My mandate has issued a call for inputs for my upcoming report to the 64th session of the Human Rights Council.
In addition to a general update on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the report will focus on transnational repression, the impact of human rights violations on families, women’s rights, and gender-based discrimination.
Deadline: 15 November 2026
Email: [email protected]
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IRAN HRM retweeted
Three UN reports on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran have been published in recent weeks.
The the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission’s report concludes that the crackdown by Iranian authorities on the Dec 2025- Jan2026 protests amount to crimes against humanity of murder, imprisonment, torture and other inhumane acts. It also finds reasonable grounds to believe that the US committed the war crime of launching an indiscriminate attack, both in striking a primary school in Minab and in using a wide-dispersal munition over a sports centre and homes in Lamerd. ohchr.org/sites/default/file…
The Secretary-General’s report covers August 2025 to May 2026. It shows how the authorities invoked national security to expand executions amid serious fair-trial concerns, carry out mass arrests and impose internet shutdowns. Sanctions, the hostilities and the shutdown compounded pre-existing socioeconomic hardship and further undermined the enjoyment of socioeconomic rights. Its recommendations include structural change: reform at the legislative and constitutional level and a moratorium on the death penalty. It urged Member States to end the hostilities, to integrate human rights into their diplomatic and economic engagement with Iran. ohchr.org/en/documents/count…
My report is organised around impacts: the killed and executed; the detained and missing; those who defend, document and mobilise; livelihoods; and the environment. In each, the external and internal sources of harm converge. Warnings of incoming strikes were posted to social media that the authorities’ own shutdown had made unreachable, and prisoners were reportedly locked in as the strikes fell. The war did not loosen the repression; it tightened it: protesters were recast as agents of the attacking States, and executions continued throughout. The burden fell hardest on those already at the margins. My recommendations are accordingly addressed to all parties: Iran, the US and Israel, and all States. ohchr.org/en/documents/count…
The common thread is impunity. I know of no investigation by the Iranian authorities into the killings by their forces, and the US and Israel have published no findings on their strikes. When those responsible will not investigate themselves, independent documentation is what stands between the victims and erasure. These reports, built on the work of survivors, families and civil society, are that record, and accountability will one day depend on it.
Until then, the reports converge on what must happen now: end the hostilities through diplomacy, with human rights at the heart of any agreement; halt executions; release those detained for exercising their rights; investigate every death independently; and grant UN mechanisms access.
Iran appointed Dadkhoda Salari as Kerman’s judiciary chief on Oct. 20, despite a record linked to executions, including Arman Bahr Asemani, executed at 16 for an alleged offense committed as a child. His appointment raises urgent concerns about impunity.
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Iranian authorities are punishing the family of executed PMOI member Babak Alipour. His father, Ali, was arrested on Oct. 20; his brother Rouzbeh has been detained for 9 months. The family was denied Babak’s body and still does not know where he is buried.
Iran has executed two more political prisoners linked to the PMOI (MEK), Babak Alipour (34) and Pouya Ghobadi (33), one day after the executions of Mohammad Taghavi and Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar.
Sentenced in grossly unfair trials by Branch 26 under judge Iman Afshari, their deaths reflect Iran’s escalating use of executions to crush dissent.
Vahid Baniamerian and Abolhassan Montazer are now at imminent risk. Urgent international action is needed.
#StopExecutionsInIran
URGENT: Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld political prisoner Manouchehr Fallah’s death sentence for PMOI membership. His case is with the verdict implementation office in Rasht, putting him at imminent risk of execution.
@UN must act now.
#StopExecutionsInIran
A father's final words to his 16-year-old daughter: "Assal, on the eve of your birthday, the judge sentenced me to death, perhaps hoping to break me. But silence in the face of oppression is an unforgivable sin..." - Manouchehr Fallah awaits execution for seeking justice. #StopExecutionsInIran
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Iran has executed at least 34 people linked to the January 2026 protests. At least 20 more face imminent execution after death sentences were upheld, including two defendants who were under 18 at the time of the alleged offenses. #StopExecutionsInIran
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IRAN HRM retweeted
#StopExecutionsInIran #NoToExecutionsTuesdays
These are some faces of Political prisoners on death row.
Among them are Amir-Hassan Akbari-Monfared (23 years old), Arghavan Fallahi (25 years old), Mohammad-Javad Vafaie Sani (30 years old, a boxing champion and coach), and Zahra Tabari (68 years old).
Like in 1988, they are accused of "waging war on God" - not for actually doing anything, but simply for maintaining their political beliefs.
IRAN HRM retweeted
Stop executions in Iran
Me sumo a una acción de solidaridad con las personas presas políticas en Irán que participan en #NoToExecutionTuesdays A las 12:00 a. m., hora de Irán (230 pm hora de México), iniciaré una huelga de hambre de 24 horas. #hungerstrike #Iran #stopexecutions #abolishdeathpenalty
La magnitud del uso de la pena de muerte en Irán por motivos políticos es alarmante. Amnistía Internacional registró al menos 2,159 ejecuciones en 2025, la cifra anual más alta que ha documentado en el país desde 1981.
En 2026, al menos 34 personas han sido ejecutadas en relación con las protestas de enero, incluidas cinco en apenas una semana, entre el 30 de septiembre y el 5 de octubre.
La información que he recibido revela además una dimensión especialmente preocupante para mi mandato. Al menos 46 presos políticos y manifestantes habrían sido ejecutados desde el 19 de marzo de 2026: 37 fueron detenidos durante protestas y nueve fueron perseguidos en relación con una supuesta afiliación a la oposición. Más de 100 personas permanecerían condenadas a muerte.
Delitos como baghi (rebelión armada), moharebeh (enemistad contra Dios) y efsad-e fel-arz (corrupción en la tierra) están siendo utilizados en casos en los que la protesta, la expresión política y la supuesta afiliación a la oposición se vinculan con cargos que pueden implicar la pena de muerte.
La historia hace imposible ignorar estas señales de alerta. En 1988, alrededor de 30,000 presos políticos fueron ejecutados o desaparecidos forzadamente en uno de los capítulos más oscuros de la historia reciente de Irán. El ex Relator Especial de la ONU Javaid Rehman concluyó posteriormente que las ejecuciones sumarias, arbitrarias y extrajudiciales, así como las desapariciones forzadas, constituyeron crímenes de lesa humanidad.
Irán debe detener inmediatamente las ejecuciones, conmutar las condenas a muerte, revisar los casos que no cumplan con las garantías de un juicio justo e investigar las denuncias de tortura.
La opinión política, la crítica, la protesta pacífica y la asociación nunca deben convertirse en delitos castigados con la pena de muerte.
Iranian political prisoner Behzad Rezvanmehr died in custody on Oct. 15 after reportedly being denied emergency hospital care.
Meanwhile, guards beat prisoners at Evin, and workers face 74 lashes for labor protests.
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IRAN HRM retweeted
Standing in solidarity with political prisoners in #Iran on this #NoToExecutionTuesday and every day.
Thank you to @SRfreedex_LMG and all those taking action on behalf of the brave Iranian people, who remain steadfast in the face of mass persecution, prosecution, and execution in an attempt by the regime to silence dissent.
The international community must employ every legal, diplomatic, and economic instrument at its disposal to protect all political prisoners in Iran and to support their human rights and democratic aspirations.
I have begun my solidarity action in support of political prisoners in Iran and those participating in #NoToExecutionTuesdays
#hungerstrike
I stand with those facing persecution for their political opinions, expression and peaceful dissent, and reiterate my call for an immediate halt to executions.
#StopExecutionsInIran
Iran’s #NoToExecutionTuesdays campaign enters its 143rd week, with hunger strikes in 66 prisons.
UN Special Rapporteur Leopoldo Maldonado joined the campaign in protest against executions in Iran.
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IRAN HRM retweeted
Appreciate the call by @UN expert Gina and her colleagues urging Iran to stop executing political prisoners. Public attention must be paid to the brutal Iranian regime's ongoing human rights violations despite the geopolitical challenges. #stopexecution
It's midnigth in Iran, it's the end of this week's #NotoExceutionTuesdays hunger strike. I cannot beging to express how deeply moved I am by the thousands of messages I have received. I am overwhelmed by the solidarity and profoundly grateful to everyone who joined worldwide. 1/
IRAN HRM retweeted
At least 46 political prisoners executed since March this year. Iran goes about its barbarity daily, against its own people.
I am joining a solidarity action with political prisoners in Iran participating in #NoToExecutionTuesdays. At 12 am Iran time, I'm going to start a 24-hour #hungerstrike #Iran
#stopexecutions #abolishdeathpenalty
The scale of Iran’s use of the death penalty for political reasons is alarming. Amnesty International recorded at least 2,159 executions in 2025, the highest annual figure it has recorded in the country since 1981.
In 2026, at least 34 people have been executed in connection with the January protests, including five in just one week between 30 September and 5 October.
Information I have received also reveals a particularly troubling dimension for my mandate. At least 46 political prisoners and protesters reportedly executed since 19 March 2026: 37 arrested during protests and nine targeted in connection with alleged opposition affiliation. More than 100 others are reportedly on death row.
Offences such as baghi (armed rebellion), moharebeh (enmity against god) and efsad-e fel-arz (corruption on earth) are being used in cases where protest, political expression and alleged opposition affiliation are intertwined with capital charges.
History makes these warning signs impossible to ignore. In 1988, around 30,000 political prisoners were executed or forcibly disappeared in one of the darkest chapters of Iran’s recent history. Former UN Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman subsequently concluded that the summary, arbitrary and extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances amounted to crimes against humanity.
Iran must immediately halt executions, commute death sentences, review cases that fail to meet fair-trial standards and investigate allegations of torture.
Political opinion, criticism, peaceful protest and association must never become capital offences.
IRAN HRM retweeted
I support the #NoToExecutionTuesdays campaign. On 20 Oct the Iranian prisoners’ campaign marks its 143rd consecutive week. UN Special Rapporteur Léopoldo Maldonado joins tomorrow with a 24-hour hunger strike following Gina Romero last week. Stand with them. End the executions.
IRAN HRM retweeted
I have begun my solidarity action in support of political prisoners in Iran and those participating in #NoToExecutionTuesdays
#hungerstrike
I stand with those facing persecution for their political opinions, expression and peaceful dissent, and reiterate my call for an immediate halt to executions.
#StopExecutionsInIran
IRAN HRM retweeted
Iran’s authorities executed at least 34 people in connection to the Jan 2026 uprising after unfair trials. At least 20 others are at imminent risk of protest-related executions after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences. Many more remain at risk. amnesty.org/en/documents/mde…
