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The Iranian government executed 29 prisoners on Wednesday, according to the organization Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO). A group execution of 26 people at Ghezhelsar Prison and the executions of another three people at Karaj Penitentiary took place on Wednesday. Sources informed IHRNGO that 17 of the executed were punished for murder-related charges, seven for drug [...]

A Pakistani national with ties to Iran was federally charged in New York for a murder-for-hire plan targeting US government officials, according to a Tuesday announcement from the US Department of Justice. The accused, Asif Merchant, contacted a confidential source under the pretense of selling clothing in the US, later paying the source $5,000 to [...]

More protests erupted in major Israeli cities Saturday, reigniting calls for the government to reach a hostage deal with Hamas. The protests were led by nonprofits such as the Hostages and Missing Families Forum as they recognized over 300 days since the hostages were taken on October 7th, 2023. The protesters marched outside the homes [...]

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), an independent and non-profit organization dedicated to education, awareness and documentation of human rights violations in Kurdistan/Iran, released their July report that reflects some cases of human rights violations in Kurdistan and violations of the rights of Kurdish civilians in different regions and cities in Iran. According to the [...]

Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday morning, according to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard-affiliated Tasnim news agency. Hamas immediately accused Israel of the killing in a statement. Haniyeh had previously claimed the office of Palestinian Prime Minister following the Hamas-Fatah split, and he continued to hold Hamas leadership [...]

In this piece, the authors, Annie Pforzheimer, a former U.S. diplomat who served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Afghanistan; and Jason Howk is a former U.S. military officer who is the Director of the Global Friends of Afghanistan, who has focused since 2002 [...]

“An intentional act of injustice is an injury. A Nation has therefore the right to punish it…. This right to resist injustice is derived from the right of self-protection.” Emmerich de Vattel, The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law 1758) Israel’s law-based conflict with Hezbollah and Hamas terrorism is grounded in the [...]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanaani, criticised a report by UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran Javaid Rehman on Wednesday asserting that the report is an attempt to damage the image of the country. Kanaani accused Rehman of relying on his international presence and of abusing [...]

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide. It has been ten years since over 10,000 Yazidis were brutally murdered. Ten years since more than 7,000 women and children were subjected to abduction, violence, and enslavement. Ten years since thousands have disappeared and over 2,600 are still missing without a trace. To this [...]

A UN Special Rapporteur released final findings Monday pressing for an international accountability mechanism to investigate and prosecute individuals involved in the mass arrest and killing of thousands during the 1980s. In the findings, Javaid Rehman, the Special Rapporteur for the Islamic Republic of Iran, set out how the violations of human rights committed during [...]