The families of Pejman Fatehi, Mohsen Mazloum, Mohammad Faramarzi, and Vafa Azarbar, four Kurdish political prisoners in Iran, were summoned to Evin Prison on Saturday, January 27, 2024, a step that tragically indicates the possibility of an imminent execution. These men, accused and sentenced to death under highly questionable and …
Read More »Human rights organizations; Issuing the death sentence against four Kurdish political prisoners is strongly condemned and contradicts all the fundamentals of human rights
Human rights organizations; Issuing the death sentence against four Kurdish political prisoners is strongly condemned and contradicts all the fundamentals of human rights With the death sentence of four Kurdish political prisoners named Pejman Fatehi, Wafa Azarbar, Mohsen Mazloum and Mohammad (Hajir) Faramarzi and the referral of the case to …
Read More »Commemoration of the Assassination of Jina-Mahsa Amini and Call for Solidarity with the Iranian People
The Zagros Human Rights Center today joins the Iranian people and the international community to commemorate the first anniversary of the assassination of Jina-Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish victim of police oppression in Iran. On September 16, 2022, his life was tragically cut short by the Iranian government’s moral police …
Read More »Side-Event : Human Rights in Iran and the Effectiveness of United Nations Instruments and Mechanisms
Within the framework of the 53rd session of the Human Rights Council, we will organize a panel on the human rights situation in Iran. Title : Human Rights in Iran and the Effectiveness of United Nations Instruments and Mechanisms. #53rd_session_of_the_Human_Rights_Council #humanrights #iran
Read More »224 organizations and 65 personalities have issued an urgent appeal to the international community to stop the Iranian regime’s brutal violence against peaceful demonstrators.
Text of the call : Urgent joint appeal to the international community: Stop Iranian regime’s brutal oppression of peaceful protesters October 18, 2022 We, the undersigned representatives of World Civil society, human rights activists, and intellectuals, from across the world, strongly urge all governments, as well as …
Read More »We condemn the murder of Mrs. Mahsa Amini by the morality police in Iran!
On Tuesday, September 13, 2022, Mrs. Mahsa (Jina) Amini was arrested in one of the streets of Tehran by the police unit in charge of enforcing the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code for women. Mahsa Amini from Saqqez had traveled to Tehran, the capital of Iran, with her mother and …
Read More »Press release on protests in Iran
Mass protests against price liberalization and the government’s indifference to the living conditions of the country’s people, which began in recent days in several cities of Khuzestan province, have spread to several other Iranian provinces. Demonstrators are protesting against rising food prices and demanding the resignation of Iran’s religious …
Read More »Oral statement of Zagros Center, at the 14th session of the minority forum -2-3 / 12/2021
This forum took place on December 2 and 3, 2021, at the Human Rights Council. Oral statement of the Zagros Center for Human Rights Fourteenth session of the Forum on Minority Issues Point 3: International legal and institutional framework: human rights of minorities and conflict prevention Madame President, The …
Read More »Civil society participation at the UN Human Rights Council cannot be an afterthought
We have consistently raised our concerns that the special emergency measures and ongoing budget constraints adopted by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in 2019 and 2020, coupled with measures adopted to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, have heavily restricted civil society participation at the HRC. Given that civic space …
Read More »Appeal to the international community to end the violence against the Kurdish people in Iran!
According to local sources in Iranian Kurdistan, in recent days dozens of civil society activists, environmental activists and students have been arrested in various towns in Kurdistan by security agencies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The escalation of arrests coincides with increasing losses caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, economic …
Read More »Participation in an online meeting with the participation of the United Nations Special Report on Minority Issues!
We took part in a meeting called “Nations under military occupation”, organized with the participation of Dr Fernand de Varennes RP, the Special Rapporteur on minority issues. Through this link you can see the meeting that took place on January 14, 2021. This meeting was moderated by Dr. Paul Newman …
Read More »Report of the United Nations Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
United Nations A/HRC/43/20 General Assembly Distr.: General 17 January 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-third session 24 February–20 March 2020 Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Situation of human …
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