The U.S. Department of the Treasury has added Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s head of judiciary, together with eight other officials from the Islamic Republic to its list of sanctioned individuals. The…
abaneditorNovember 5, 2019
On October 10th, Justice for Iran joined the Universal Periodic Review’s (UPR) pre-session, presenting its submission and recommendations to dozens of UN member states for the 34th UPR. The submission,’Iran:…
tehranOctober 11, 2019
Following the alarming reports questioning the independence and neutrality of Persian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia’s host) has opened an investigation. One of Wikipedia’s inspectors (CheckUser) has confirmed in a tweet that the investigation involves the…
tehranOctober 9, 2019
The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) has recognised all four cases of activists executed in 2010 as enforced disappearances and is now asking the Islamic Republic…
tehranAugust 15, 2019
25 June 2019- The Executive Order issued yesterday by the US President imposes sanctions on Iran’s Supreme Leader Seyyed Ali Khamenei, all the individuals appointed by him, all the entities…
tehranJune 25, 2019
June 10, 2019—Justice for Iran has received news about a closed-door meeting to be held on Wednesday, 12 June 2019, between three Iranian MPs and several members of the Dutch…
labadminJune 10, 2019
Justice for Iran, 21 May 2019 — Experts on enforced disappearances warned that the efforts to seek rights to truth and justice continue to be suppressed and forgotten in the…
labadminMay 21, 2019
Behind Bars Unjustly Since 2009, Eligible for Release in 2017 May 20, 2019—Iran must end the cruel and unlawful imprisonment of Maryam Akbari-Monfared, who has already served nearly ten years…
labadminMay 20, 2019
22 April 2019- Justice for Iran has submitted a report titled, “Iran: Maximum Impunity” to the 34th session of the United Nations Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)…
labadminApril 22, 2019