The Islamic Republic enters its 31st year of government at a time when faces more serious challenges to its failure to uphold basic human rights standards in the domestic and international arenas than ever before. With increased visibility and greater social knowledge and awareness, the universal responsibility towards observing and upholding human rights has gained greater attention.
Over the past year, reporting the bloody events that followed the Iranian presidential elections that lefts tens of citizens dead and resulted in the wounding and arrests of thousands of others, was the most significant part of our work at HRA; work that has endangered the lives of our fellow human rights activists.
We would like to note that there were many violations of human rights over the past year that cannot be captured by the statistical model presented herein, including the Iranian government’s passing of polygamy laws as part of the Supporting Families Bill.
Human Rights Activists in Iran has recorded 59,040 instances of human rights violations in Iran over the past Iranian year. We are certain that this number is a drop in the ocean of human rights violations in Iran today. Understanding the true picture of human rights conditions in Iran requires us to understand the limitations of the numbers below in capturing only those instances that have been recorded and leaving out incidents that have not been accessed due to the severe limitations imposed on human rights work and the government’s active prevention of the free flow of information.
Student Rights
1. Threatening Students: 83 incidents
2. Arrests: 1663
3. Summons to Court: 311
4. Trials: 192
5. Issuance of Sentences: 107
6. Release from Prison: 73
7. Summons for Questioning and Interrogation: 69
8. Banning from Education: 73
9. Banning Publications: 17
10. Assaults and Beatings: 348
11. Attacks on Student Gatherings: 18
12. Shutting Down of Organizational Offices: 9
13. Refusal to Issue Permits for Ceremonies: 15
14. Expulsions: 43
15. Student Deaths[1]: 16
16. Attacks on Universities and Dormitories: 166
17. Suicides[2]: 3
18. Summons to Disciplinary Committee: 1,415
19. Sentences by Disciplinary Committee: 849
Total: 5,470
Press
1. Threatening Journalists: 18
2. Arrests of Journalists: 116
3. Summons to Court: 35
4. Trials of Journalists: 83
5. Sentences Issued: 39
6. Release on Bail: 34
7. Release from Prison: 22
8. Summons for Questioning and Interrogation: 33
9. Travel Ban: 7
10. Assault and Beatings: 8
11. Shutting Down Publishing Houses: 9
12. Denial of Publication Permits: 25
13. Banning of Newspapers: 19
14. Filtering News Sites: 33
15. Warnings Issued to Publications: 33
Total: 514
Thoughts and Expressions[3]
1. Threatening and Fear: 42
2. Arrests: 18,901
3. Summons to Court: 398
4. Trials: 388
5. Sentences Issued: 338
6. Setting Bail: 262
7. Release from Prison: 357
8. Summons for Questioning and Interrogation: 63
9. Travel Ban: 27
10. Forced Retirement: 41
11. Assaults and Battery: 415
12. Attacks on Gatherings: 23
13. Shutting Down of Organizations: 7
14. Denial of Permits for Ceremonies: 11
15. Exile: 11
Total: 21, 284
Women and Women’s Rights Activists
1. Threats and Fear: 8
2. Arrests: 47
3. Summons to Court: 17
4. Trials: 11
5. Issuances of Sentences: 9
6. Setting of Bail: 4
7. Release from Prison: 15
8. Summons for Questioning and Interrogation: 17
9. Travel Ban: 5
10. Attacks on gatherings: 1
11. Self-Immolations[4]: 16
12. Stoning: 1
Labor
1. Threatening Labor activists: 18
2. Arrests: 195
3. Summons to Court: 44
4. Trials: 32
5. Issuance of Sentences: 18
6. Issuance of Bail: 16
7. Release from Prison: 47
8. Summons for Questioning and Interrogation: 10
9. Firings and Layoffs: 8,407
10. Deaths on the Job: 25
11. Protest Gatherings: 66
12. Shutting Down of Organizations: 2
13. Denial of Permits for Ceremonies: 8
14. Suicides: 6
15. Suspension of Medical Benefits: 131
16. Failure to Pay Salaries: 18,275
Total: 27,300
Prisoners of Conscience
1. Suspicious deaths: 6
2. Exile: 147
3. Denial of visitation rights: 130
4. Denial of Access to Representation: 53
5. Enforcements of Execution Orders: 18
6. Denial of Medical Leave: 33
7. Physical and Psychological Torture: 122
8. Hunger Strikes: 87
9. Denial of Telephone Contact: 36
10. Holding in Unfit Conditions: 37
11. Transfers to Solitary Confinement Cells: 79
12. Preventing Release: 22
13. Issuance of Execution Orders: 28
14. Murder of Prisoners: 38
Total: 836
Executions
1. Issuance of Orders: 311
2. Affirmation of Orders: 711
3. Enforcement of Orders: 411
4. Orders Issued for Juvenile Offenders: 3
5. Executions of Juvenile Offenders: 4
Total: 802
Citizen’s Rights
1. Shootings: 234
2. Suspicious Deaths: 738
3. Mine Explosions: 12
4. Rape and Murder[5]: 1,008
Total: 1,992
Ethnic Minorities
1. Assault and Battery: 130
2. Attacks on Gatherings: 3
3. Shutting Down of Language Institutes: 2
4. Denial of Permits for Ceremonies: 6
5. Shutting Down of Publishing Houses: 3
Total: 144
Religious Minorities1. Threats: 17
2. Arrests: 207
3. Summons to Court: 43
4. Trials: 35
5. Issuance of Sentences: 89
6. Temporary Release: 57
7. Summons for Questioning and Interrogation: 17
8. Travel Ban: 3
9. Firings: 9
10. Assault and Battery: 43
11. Attacks on Gatherings: 11
12. Shutting Down Places of Worship: 2
13. Denial of Permits for Ceremonies: 11
14. Murders and Assassinations: 3
Total: 547
[1] Number includes deaths caused by the negligence of authorities as well as deaths resulting from government attacks on dormitories.
[2] Refers to instances of suicide due to pressures from authorities.
[3] Numbers deal with ordinary citizens that are captured in other categories.
[4] Refers to instances of death caused by social and legal pressures caused by the government.
[5] Refers to instances of crime facilitated by the government, for example, by legally permitting honor killings, the government facilitates the murder of a woman.
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