Impact Iran

A human rights coalition raising awareness of the situation of human rights in Iran and encourage cooperation with UN mechanisms

[Mai Sato @drmaisato]

Mohsen Eslamkhah, a Kurd from Bukan, was 16 when the Woman, Life, Freedom protests began in 2022. Like many other young people, he took to the streets to call for freedom, dignity and change. In February 2026 a Revolutionary Court sentenced him to death for moharebeh (enmity against God) for acts alleged to have taken place when he was a child. He remains on death row.

International law leaves no room here. Key treaties ratified by Iran prohibit the death penalty for offences committed under 18.  Mohsen is not alone. My mandate has received reports of others facing execution for offences allegedly committed when they were children.

Four years on, many young people once again took to the streets, calling for a better future they felt was slipping away from them. Shervin Bagherian Jebeli was one of them. He had turned 18 days only days before security forces raided his home in Isfahan at night in January 2026. His family heard nothing for a week. Then State television aired his confession, recorded under interrogation, before any trial. In it, he is told he is charged with moharebeh. He does not appear to know what the word means. He was sentenced to death with 11 others in a single closed hearing, with no clarity as to what each is accused of doing. He remains on death row.

The rule on children exists because young people are developing and capable of change, and that does not stop on a birthday. The death sentences against Mohsen and the others who were children at the time are prohibited outright. Shervin’s case should make us deeply uneasy: a death sentence for a boy who had been an adult for a matter of days. But his age is not the only reason he should not be executed. A week of enforced disappearance, an apparently coerced confession broadcast before trial, and a closed hearing that never said what he personally is accused of having done are each reason enough.

Respecting the prohibition on executing children is the least Iranian authorities can do; halting these executions is what the authorities must do. A young person’s future should not end with a death sentence.

My Mandate’s Communication on Mohsen Eslamkhah
https://t.co/rqu2DgODb8
Response by the Iranian authorities
https://t.co/ONbSNWgafr

My Mandate’s communication on Shervin Bagherian Jebeli
https://t.co/xH7oBA1Av1
Response by the government received but not published yet. It will be available here later today - https://t.co/JJpsRdZ6Fp

[Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @IranRights_org]

🔴Today the UN Human Rights Council held an interactive dialogue with the Fact-Finding Mission on Iran to discuss their report findings on human rights abuses in Iran.

🔸In this post, you will read key excerpts during this session:

[UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC]

“The suffering of people in #Iran must come to an end.”

At the @UN Human Rights Council, the Fact-Finding Mission pointed to intensified government repression & violence, continuing hostilities & growing economic hardship compounded by "unilateral sectoral sanctions".

#HRC63

[Iranhrdc.org @IHRDC]

Tuesday, September 22, 13:00 CET Geneva, Switzerland.

The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center will be hosting a side event alongside the 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council highlighting the victims of the January 2026 Massacre and the new findings reported by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran (FFMI). The event will feature statements from two women whose brothers were killed by state violence, and a virtual statement from the Chair of the FFMI. IHRDC Executive Director Shahin Milani will moderate a panel discussion of experts addressing the ongoing human rights violations, denial of Iranians’ basic freedoms, and potential pathways towards accountability.

With the international conflict grabbing the global headlines, the stories of everyday Iranians risk being forgotten. This parallel event will discuss the FFMI’s findings, including the evidence of grave human rights violations committed by Iranian authorities during the January 2026 crackdown, and will raise the voices of Iranians who have borne the burden of this repression.

@IHRDC

[Impact Iran @impactiran]

MONDAY: a 🇺🇳 HRC side event, co-sponsored by Impact Iran, KMMK-G, and @IranRights_org , on transnational repression conducted by Iranian authorities, featuring coalition members, HRDs, legal experts, as well as UNSR on Iran @drmaisato , and Iran FFM chair Sara Hossain.

[Impact Iran @impactiran]

📢 OUT NOW: A joint report from coalition member @IranRights_org with @hrw on ongoing executions in Iran. Find the complete report here: https://t.co/YjxKncmKMp

[Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @IranRights_org]

🔴In a joint report published today, the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center and Human Rights Watch condemned the ongoing unlawful execution campaign against protesters and political dissidents in Iran and called for global action to end the Islamic Republic’s relentless assault on the right to life.

🔸At least 29 individuals have been executed in connection with the December 2025 - January 2026 protests within the past five months, based on ABC and HRW’s human rights monitoring. Scores more remain at imminent risk. The organizations documented systemic due process violations, including denial of access to independent legal counsel, torture and ill-treatment to extract forced “confessions,” and politically-motivated convictions by Iran’s judiciary..

🔸These abuses are part of a broader weaponization of Iran’s legal framework to punish protesters and suppress dissent. Systematically vilifying protesters as “rioters” and “terrorists,” the Islamic Republic has continued to expand the scope of offenses punishable by death, providing authorities with broader legal tools to prosecute and execute those who challenge the state.

🔸Read the whole report here:
https://t.co/2F01tjUp2S

[Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @IranRights_org]

🔴بنیاد عبدالرحمن برومند و دیده‌بان حقوق بشر امروز با انتشار یک گزارش مشترک، کارزار غیرقانونی و مستمر اعدام علیه معترضان و دگراندیشان سیاسی در ایران را محکوم کردند و خواستار اقدام فوری جهانی برای پایان دادن به تعرض بی‌امان جمهوری اسلامی به حق حیات شدند.

🔸بر پایه پایش‌های حقوق بشری این دو نهاد، ظرف پنج ماه گذشته دست‌کم ۲۹ نفر در ارتباط با اعتراضات دی‌ماه (دسامبر ۲۰۲۵ - ژانویه ۲۰۲۶) اعدام شده‌اند و ده‌ها تن دیگر همچنان در خطر فوری اجرای حکم مرگ به سر می‌برند. این سازمان‌ها موارد سیستماتیک نقض دادرسی عادلانه از جمله محرومیت از دسترسی به وکیل مستقل و تعیینی، اعمال شکنجه و بدرفتاری برای اخذ «اعترافات» اجباری، و محکومیت‌های با انگیزه‌های سیاسی توسط دستگاه قضایی جمهوری اسلامی را مستند کرده‌اند.

🔸این نقض حقوق بشر بخشی از یک روند گسترده‌تر تبدیل چارچوب‌های قانونی ایران به سلاحی برای مجازات معترضان و سرکوب نارضایتی‌ها است. جمهوری اسلامی هم‌زمان با تخریب چهره معترضان و برچسب‌زنی سیستماتیک به آنان تحت عناوینی چون «اغتشاشگر» و «تروریست»، دامنه جرائم مستوجب مجازات اعدام را پیوسته گسترش داده و ابزارهای حقوقی بیشتری را در اختیار نهادهای حکومتی برای محاکمه و اعدام معترضان قرار داده است.

🔸گزارش کامل را اینجا بخوانید:
https://t.co/2F01tjUp2S

[Mai Sato @drmaisato]

من هم از درخواست کمیته حقیقت‌یاب سازمان ملل در مورد ایران برای پس گرفتن «لایحه مقابله با نفوذ خارجی» حمایت می‌کنم.https://t.co/h01EsLU3RZ
قانون جاسوسی که سال گذشته به تصویب رسید، پیشاپیش ارتباط با رسانه‌های خارجی، به‌اشتراک‌گذاری اطلاعات و استفاده از تجهیزات ارتباطات ماهواره‌ای را جرم‌انگاری کرده و برای آن مجازات‌هایی تا حد اعدام در نظر گرفته است. از این قانون برای صدور اتهامات مستوجب مجازات اعدام علیه ابراز عقیده مسالمت‌آمیز استفاده شده و همچنین دارایی‌های صدها نفر، از جمله روزنامه‌نگاران و فعالان مقیم خارج از کشور بر مبنای آن مسدود یا مصادره شده است.
این لایحه همین منطق را یک گام فراتر می‌برد و مقرر می‌کند انتشار مطالب، پژوهش، فعالیت‌های هنری، دوره‌های آموزشی و تجارت با هر فرد یا نهادی خارج از کشور، در نظامی ثبت و در بسیاری از موارد تأیید شود که قواعد آن را نهادهای اطلاعاتی تعیین می‌کنند.
ارتباط مردم ایران با جهان نباید تحت کنترل نهادهای اطلاعاتی باشد.

[Impact Iran @impactiran]

More from last month's side event during @AssoECPM's 9th world congress against the death penalty, featuring 🇨🇦 Canada's @emifuruya1. Find the full side event recap here: https://t.co/TbNTke9THh

[Impact Iran @impactiran]

Coalition member 🟨🟦 KMMK-G's @taliassi in Le Temps 🇨🇭: "I defend human rights for Iranians at the UN. Today, the regime wants me dead". Find the full op-ed on Iran's transnational repression of Kurdish diaspora members:
https://t.co/N2th6wIfOW

[Impact Iran @impactiran]

👇 The latest from UN experts, including SR on Iran @drmaisato and SR on religion or belief @NazilaGhanea, on ongoing reporting of human right violations against Bahá’í in Iran.

[UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts]

#Iran: UN experts concerned over allegations of arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture & ill-treatment against Bahá’ís, warning that several detainees may face risks to their mental & physical health, as well as personal integrity.
https://t.co/K04TCoCBWm

[Mai Sato @drmaisato]

Update on the press release from yesterday (https://t.co/ASJli92ilR). Iranian authorities carried out the public execution of two more of the Alikhani Square defendants at dawn in Isfahan.

A scaffold was erected in the square. Families were summoned for what they feared would be final visits. Through the night the area was under heavy security, with reports of confrontations between security forces and people gathered nearby. Accounts from inside the country describe those who kept watch near the square through the night — a deeply moving act, standing together so that no one would face death alone. For many Iranians, execution has become the one constant in their life, something the State authorities have made routine. (Read this story “I stayed awake for them” - https://t.co/KfL49Lozzb)

Public executions constitute cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. They serve justice to no one: not the accused, denied a fair trial; not the four security personnel whose deaths remain unexamined in any open court; not a society made to watch. They are designed to instil fear and to consolidate State authority through the spectacle of death, exposing the public, including children, to serious psychological harm.

Four of the 12 young men have now been executed arbitrarily. Eight remain, but I have received reports that Shervin Bagherian Jebeli and three others have had a final meeting with their families, indicating they may be executed as early as tomorrow.

I renew my call: halt all executions. Establish a moratorium, pending abolition.

[Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) @IHRights]

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URGENT: Kaveh Arabian, 32, a father arrested over the January protests, is at imminent risk of execution. On 28 July, a day after a family visit, he was moved from Yazd Central Prison to an unknown location. A source said it was for execution.
#KavehArabian

[Rasanknews @rasanknews]

اعدام دو زندانی سیاسی در ملأعام اصفهان و گزارش‌هایی از سرکوب معترضان

به گزارش رسانک، بامداد امروز سه‌شنبه ۶ مردادماه ۱۴۰۵، حکم اعدام دو زندانی سیاسی به نام‌های «ابوالفضل سپاهی» و «امیرحسین صفری» در میدان علیخانی شهر اصفهان به‌صورت علنی اجرا شد. هم‌زمان گزارش‌های منتشرشده حاکی از اعتراض شماری از شهروندان حاضر در محل، حضور گسترده نیروهای امنیتی و برخورد با معترضان است. همچنین ویدئوهای منتشرشده در شبکه‌های اجتماعی نشان می‌دهد که نیروهای نظامی برای متفرق کردن تجمع‌کنندگان وارد عمل شده‌اند و گزارش‌هایی نیز از تیراندازی در محل منتشر شده است.

خبرگزاری میزان، رسانه وابسته به قوه قضاییه، مدعی شده که این دو نفر در جریان اعتراضات سراسری ۱۴۰۴ با استفاده از سلاح سرد در حمله به یکی از مأموران انتظامی نقش داشته‌اند. با این حال، تاکنون مستندات مستقلی برای راستی‌آزمایی این ادعاها به‌صورت عمومی منتشر نشده است.

در مقابل، منابع حقوق بشری اعلام کرده‌اند که این دو زندانی پس از بازداشت تحت فشارهای امنیتی، شکنجه و آزارهای جسمی و روانی قرار گرفته و اعترافات آنان تحت اجبار اخذ شده است. همچنین خانواده‌های این افراد پیش‌تر نسبت به محدودیت در دسترسی به وکیل مستقل، نقض حق دفاع و روند دادرسی پرونده اعتراض کرده بودند.

بر اساس گزارش‌ها، هم‌زمان با اجرای حکم، شماری از شهروندان نسبت به اعدام در ملأعام اعتراض کردند، اما نیروهای امنیتی با مداخله و برخورد با معترضان مانع ادامه تجمع شدند. همچنین گزارش‌هایی از یورش مأموران به برخی از معترضان و تیراندازی برای متفرق کردن تجمع منتشر شده است، اما مقام‌های رسمی تاکنون درباره این گزارش‌ها توضیحی ارائه نکرده‌اند.

نهادهای حقوق بشری نیز با ابراز نگرانی نسبت به روند رسیدگی به این پرونده، خواستار انتشار مستندات پرونده، بررسی مستقل ادعاهای مطرح‌شده درباره شکنجه و اعترافات اجباری و رعایت کامل استانداردهای دادرسی عادلانه شده‌اند. اجرای احکام اعدام در ملأعام و گزارش‌های مربوط به برخورد با شهروندان معترض، بار دیگر نگرانی‌ها درباره وضعیت حقوق بشر، حق دادرسی عادلانه و آزادی تجمعات مسالمت‌آمیز در ایران را افزایش داده است.
@rasanknews

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[KURDPA @kurdpa_farsi]

۲ معترض دیگر با اذان صبح در ملأعام اعدام شدند؛
امیرحسین صفری، ابوالفضل سپاهی

بامداد امروز سه‌شنبه ۶ مرداد ۱۴۰۵، هم‌زمان با اذان صبح، دو تن دیگر از معترضان اعتراضات دی‌ماه ۱۴۰۴ با نام‌های امیرحسین صفری و ابوالفضل سپاهی بادجانی در شهر اصفهان در ملأعام اعدام شدند.

خبرگزاری فارس و میزان با انتشار این خبر اعلام کردند که احکام اعدام در میدان ملک‌شهر اصفهان به اجرا درآمده است.

این اعدام‌های گروهی در حالی انجام شد که شمار زیادی از مردم با هدف اعتراض به اجرای احکام و جلوگیری از اعدام‌ها در محل تجمع کرده بودند.

[Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) @IHRights]

UN experts have urged Iran to quash the death sentences of 12 young protesters sentenced in a single closed hearing.

Two were executed on 19 July. The remaining 10, including Shervin Bagherian Jebeli, are at risk.

At least 24 people have been executed in 2026 in connection with the January protests. The experts called for an immediate halt to executions.

#StopExecutionsInIran

[Impact Iran @impactiran]

@iranhr @IHRights

[Impact Iran @impactiran]

📸 Highlights from last week's side event during @AssoECPM's 9th world congress against the death penalty, featuring a special statement from Tayfur Salimi Babamiri, a Kurdish protestor during the Woman Life Freedom protests who survived torture and a death sentence:

[Impact Iran @impactiran]

@iranhr @IHRights 👇 KMMK-G's Shena Razabi highlights the systemization of executions and the death penalty against the Kurdish people in Iran.