Human Rights

By IranHRM On Feb 13, 2018

Christian convert, Naser Navard Goltapeh, was transferred to Evin Prison to serve his 10-year prison term. He was transferred to section 8, hall 10 of Evin Prison on January 20.

London, 01 Mar - Sweden recently granted citizenship to a disaster medicine expert currently on death row in Iran, with the hopes that it will allow the Swedish Foreign Ministry to intervene in the case and get the doctor released.

Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, who taught at the Karolinska Institute of Medicine in Stockholm and worked in the research department of the Free University Brussels (VUB), visited Iran for a medical conference in 2016, where he was arrested and charged with spying for Israel. In October 2017, he was tried and sentenced to death.

Human Rights Watch reported that Iran executed at least three child offenders across the country in January 2018. Human Rights Watch called on Iran to immediately and unconditionally end the use of the death penalty for crimes committed by children under the age of 18, and move toward a complete ban on capital punishment.

The organization named the three young people that were executed in January as Amirhossein Pourjafar, Ali Kazemi and Mahboubeh Mofidi. They were executed for crimes they allegedly committed when they were 16, 15 and 17 years old respectively.

Kavous Seyed-Emami, 63, a dual Canadian national environmentalist lost his life just two weeks after his arrest.

Iran’s judiciary says he committed suicide because of the evidence against him in a spying case.

Tehran’s Revolutionary Court summoned Sayed Emami’s wife, Maryam Mombini on February 9, and informed her of her husband’s sudden death.