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Iran’s nationwide internet shutdown to hide deadly crackdown against protests is a ‘serious human rights violation’Amnesty is investigating reports that security forces have intensifed unlawful lethal force after the internet shutdown, causing more deaths and injuries
09 Jan 2026 Press release -
Iran: Deaths and injuries increase during renewed protest repression – Amnesty and Human Rights Watch findingsHundreds of protesters arbitrarily arrested, including children as young as 14, during protest dispersals and nightly raids on homes
09 Jan 2026 Press release -
UK: BBC's Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe drama underscores Government's 'clear betrayal' of British nationalsThe programme underscores how the UK government did - and continues to do - nowhere near enough to help secure the release of Britons arbitrarily detained abroad.
24 Nov 2025 Press release -
Iran: Horrifying secret executions amid mounting political repression
Iran: Horrifying secret executions amid mounting political repression. Amnesty responds to the arbitrary executions of tortured political dissidents, Behrouz Ehsani, 69, and Mehdi Hassani, 48, in secret in Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj, Alborz province,…
28 Jul 2025 Press release -
Iran/Israel: Iranian forces' use of cluster munition in '12 day war' violated international humanitarian lawUnlawful ballistic missile strikes utilising cluster munitions landed in residential areas in Israel
23 Jul 2025 Press release -
Iran: Deliberate Israeli attack on Tehran’s Evin prison must be investigated as a war crime – new evidenceVideo footage, satellite imagery, and eyewitness accounts reveal extensive civilian casualties and destruction
21 Jul 2025 Press release -
Iran: Growing fears of 'rush to execute people' accused of 'espionage' for IsraelFears of arbitrary executions are rising after officials announced mass arrests for alleged collaboration with Israel and called for swift trials and executions
20 Jun 2025 Press release -
Israel-Iran: Urgent call to end 'reckless military action' and protect civilians amid growing hostilitiesIsraeli and Iranian authorities repeatedly demonstrate utter disregard for international human rights and humanitarian law with impunity
18 Jun 2025 Press release -
Iran: Woman Life Freedom protester executed after sham trial and tortureMojahed Kourkouri has been executed three years after he was arrested
11 Jun 2025 Press release -
Iran: Authorities must halt gruesome plan to amputate fingers of tortured prisoners within days04 Apr 2025 Press release -
Iran: release of German-Iranian activist Nahid Taghavi welcomed13 Jan 2025 Press release
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Iran: Threats of prison, flogging and death in new law to crush resistance to compulsory veiling
Iranian authorities have adopted a new draconian law that further erases the human rights of women and girls, imposing the death penalty, flogging, prison terms and other severe penalties to crush ongoing resistance to compulsory veiling
11 Dec 2024 Press release -
Iran: authorities set to execute child offender contrary to international law18 Oct 2024 Press release
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Iran: authorities still cracking down two years on from nationwide women's protests11 Sep 2024 Press release
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Iran: secret execution of women's rights protester Reza Rasaei condemnedThirty-four-year-old Reza Rasaei was executed at dawn with no prior notice given to him, his family or his lawyer.
06 Aug 2024 Press release -
Iran: Ebrahim Raisi's death must not rob his victims of right to justice22 May 2024 Press release
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UK: Southbank projection makes appeal to Rishi Sunak over British man jailed in Iran01 May 2024 Press release
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Iran: 853 people executed last year after surge in use of death penalty in drugs cases04 Apr 2024 Press release
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Iran: compulsory headscarf crackdown is 'terrorising' women and girls - new testimonies06 Mar 2024 Press release
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Iran: Swedish-Iranian academic Ahmadreza Djalali at grave risk of 'retaliatory' execution22 Dec 2023 Press release
