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Iran/Israel: Iranian forces’ use of cluster munitions in ‘12 Day War’ violated international humanitarian law
The Iranian forces’ use of cluster munitions during the ‘12 Day War’ with Israel was a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, Amnesty International said today. Last month, the Iranian […]
Iran: Deliberate Israeli attack on Tehran’s Evin prison must be investigated as a war crime
The Israeli military’s deliberate air strikes on Evin prison in Tehran on 23 June 2025 constitute a serious violation of international humanitarian law and must be criminally investigated as war […]
Iran: Growing fears over torture and executions of individuals accused of ‘espionage’ for Israel
The Iranian authorities must halt all plans to carry out arbitrary executions and protect all those arrested over accusations of espionage for Israel from enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment, […]
Urgent need to protect civilians amid unprecedented escalation in hostilities between Israel and Iran
As more and more civilians bear the cruel toll of the terrifying military escalation in Iran and Israel since 13 June 2025, and amid threats of further escalation in the […]
Iran: Arbitrary execution of Woman Life Freedom protester Mojahed Kourkouri after sham trial and torture
Reacting to an announcement by Iran’s judiciary that the Iranian authorities this morning executed Mojahed (Abbas) Kourkouri in connection with the 2022 Woman Life Freedom protests in Iran, Amnesty International’s […]
Stop the Execution Spree in Iran
Since the Woman Life Freedom uprising, Iranian authorities have doubled down on their brutal use of the death penalty as a tool of oppression to terrorize the public and tighten […]
Iran: Authorities target women’s rights activists with arbitrary arrest, flogging and death penalty
Iranian authorities have escalated their crackdown on women’s rights defenders, journalists, singers and other activists demanding equality or who defy compulsory veiling using arbitrary detention, unjust prosecution, flogging, and even […]
Protect the Protest: Women human rights defenders and activists at risk of execution in Iran
Kurdish humanitarian aid worker Pakhshan Azizi, Kurdish dissident Verisheh Moradiand and human rights defender Sharifeh Mohammadi are the only known women facing execution after convictions for politically-motivated offenses in Iran. […]
Iran: Kurdish human rights activist faces execution
Pakhshan Azizi, a humanitarian worker and human rights defender from Iran’s Kurdish minority, is in grave danger of execution. On February 5, 2025, her lawyers learned that Branch Nine of […]
Iran: Urgent global action needed to halt imminent execution of Kurdish humanitarian worker Pakhshan Azizi
Responding to reports that Iran’s Supreme Court rejected the request for judicial review of the conviction and death sentence of humanitarian aid worker Pakhshan Azizi, 40, from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish […]
Iran: Two prisoners face immediate execution
Behrouz Ehsani, 69, and Mehdi Hassani, 48, are at immediate risk of execution. In early January, Iran’s Supreme Court upheld their death sentences. On January 26, authorities transferred them from […]
Iran: Six men at risk of execution after flawed trial
Six men—Abolhassan Montazer, Akbar (Shahrokh) Daneshvarkar, Babak Alipour, Mohammad Taghavi Sangdehi, Pouya Ghobadi, and Vahid Bani Amerian—face imminent execution in Iran. In October 2024, Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, Branch 26, sentenced […]