Iran

Human Rights Concerns

Amnesty International continues to document serious human violations including detention of human rights defenders and other prisoners of conscience, unfair trials, torture and mistreatment in detention, deaths in custody and the application of the death penalty. Iran has one of the highest number of recorded executions of any country in the world. Amnesty International is particularly concerned about the execution of children and individuals who were minors when their crimes were alleged to have taken place. In one case, an 18-year-old girl, Nazanin, was sentenced to be executed for having, at age 17, stabbed to death one of three men in a park who were attempting to rape her and her younger niece.

Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns for Iran »
Demand an End to Stoning

Up to nine women and two men in Iran are under sentence of execution by stoning, including one woman who was convicted of adultery and who claimed she was forced into prostitution. Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan has called on the Iranian government to abolish stoning on the occasion of the fourth World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10, 2006.


Latest News
Iran : Arrests of demonstrators continue
March 16, 2007

International Women's Day: Irene Khan and Shirin Ebadi call for end to discrimination against women in Iran
March 07, 2007

Iran: Arrests of women may be an attempt to prevent International Women's Day calls for equality
March 05, 2007

Iran: Ethnic minorities facing new wave of human rights violations
February 26, 2007

Iran: Amnesty International concerned at continuing harassment of journalists and women's rights activists
February 07, 2007

Iran: Four Iranian Arabs executed after unfair trials
January 24, 2007

Latest Reports
Iran: Appeal Case: Abbas Lisani - Prisoner of Conscience
February 01, 2007

Iran: Threat of execution of seven women and a man by stoning
January 31, 2007

Iran: Appeal case, Saleh Kamrani - Human Rights Defender and Lawyer
December 20, 2006

Iran: Human Rights Defender at risk: Abdolfattah Soltani - Appeal case update
December 06, 2006