Whether on their phones, on the streets or in the courtroom, Iranians are trying to push back against tightening restrictions on their freedom of expression, though there are mixed views as to if they will succeed.
A soft-spoken Iranian academic and author, Sadegh Zibakalam, was the DW Freedom of Speech Award recipient in 2018. A few months before he stood on the stage at the Global Media Forum in Bonn, Zibakalam was arrested after he gave an interview to DW's Persian service. In it he disagreed with a government statement regarding recent protests in the country.

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Le Guide Suprême des mollahs, Ali Khamenei, a gracié l’homme responsable de la torture, du viol et du meurtre de milliers de dissidents en Iran. L’ancien Procureur général de Téhéran, Saied Mortazavi, surnommé le « boucher de la presse », a été formellement accusé comme étant le « principal coupable » dans le scandale du centre de détention de Kahrizak, où des manifestants contestant l’élection iranienne de 2009 ont été torturés, violés et tués, mais il n’a jamais été condamnés. En fait, on sait peu de choses sur le procès à huis clos qu’il aurait subi et il n’a jamais été condamné.

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The French Committee in Support of Human Rights in Iran (CSDHI) called for a major demonstration on Friday, February 8, 2019, against serious and massive human rights violations in Iran and the terrorist acts of the Iranian regime on European soil against its opposition. On February 8, thousands of Iranians rallied and marched in Paris to mark the 40th anniversary of the Iranian people's uprising against the Shah's dictatorship.

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After the foundation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, millions of people from ethnic minorities like Azeris, Kurds, Arabs, Balouchs and Turkmens and religious minorities like Baha’is and Sunnis have been discriminated against, exploited or denied their very basic rights due their ethnicity, beliefs or different faiths. Meanwhile, Iranian civil and political activists as well as human rights defenders and students, in particular Kurdish ones, have seen arbitrary arrests, imprisonment, torture and humiliation on a daily basis. Many have spent months and years in prison and some have ended up being executed without access to legal representation.

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Malgré un diagnostic de trouble mental et émotionel, Mohammad Kalhori risque une exécution imminente pour un crime qu'il aurait commis à l'âge de 15 ans, a déclaré son avocat, Hossein Aghakhani, au Centre pour les droits de l'homme en Iran (CDHI), le 28 février 2019. La peine étant déjà prononcée et confirmée, l'avocat de Kalhori a demandé à la famille de la victime de lui pardonner, alléguant qu'il n'était qu'un mineur sans maturité mentale au moment des faits, comme l'a autorisé le tribunal référant de la ville de Boroujerd, dans la province du Lorestan.

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EU Foreign and Defence Ministry Condemns Conviction of Nasrin Sotoudeh The diplomatic service and foreign and defence ministry of the EU, European Union External Action (EEAS), has condemned the conviction of prominent Iranian attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh and urged Iran to guarantee her and her husband Reza Khandan, who was sentenced to six years in prison in January 2019, a fair appeal process. The EEAS statement was issued the day after Sotoudeh was sentenced to a combined total of 38 years in prison on March 11, 2019, for her peaceful advocacy of human rights

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Iran's many woes briefly went up in smoke on Tuesday as Iranians observed a nearly 4,000-year-old Persian tradition known as the Festival of Fire.

The celebration is held on the last Tuesday night before Nowruz, or the Iranian New Year, which will be celebrated Thursday.

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Iran took more than 7,000 people into custody last year in a “shameless campaign of repression,” according to the human rights group Amnesty International. “From underpaid teachers to factory workers struggling to feed their families, those who have dared to demand their rights in Iran today have paid a heavy price,” stated Philip Luther, director of the Middle East and North Africa for Amnesty International.

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Le Rapporteur spécial des Nations Unies sur les droits humains en Iran, Javaid Rehman, présente son rapport annuel au Conseil des droits de l'homme à Genève aux côtés de la vice-présidente du Conseil, Vesna Batistić Kos, 11 mars 2019.

Le bilan des droits humains en Iran a été vivement critiqué lundi par le Conseil des droits de l’homme des Nations unies, un expert des Nations Unies soulignant la répression menée par l’Iran contre la dissidence et la pratique des condamnations à mort d’enfants.

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