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La militante et journaliste Narges Mohammadi, à une date inconnue. Photo fournie par la Fondation Narges Mohammadi, le 2 octobre 2023. - / AFP

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Je tiens à exprimer ma gratitude envers les honorables membres du comité Nobel de la Paix pour avoir attribué le prestigieux prix Nobel de la paix au magnifique mouvement « Femme, Vie, Liberté » et à une femme emprisonnée, défenseure des droits de l’homme et de la démocratie. Je suis reconnaissante pour votre soutien significatif et déterminé.

Je suis convaincue que l’impact indéniable du prix Nobel de la paix sur la puissante mobilisation des Iraniens pour la paix, la liberté et la démocratie sera largement supérieur à celui de ma lutte et de ma résistance personnelles. C’est une source d’espoir et d’inspiration pour moi.…  Seguir leyendo »

Iranian couple Nasrin Sotoudeh and Reza Khandan, with their friend and fellow activist Farhad Meysami (center) after being released from prison earlier this year following a lengthy hunger strike. Reza Khandan

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In the Spring of 2018, two men in Tehran had a humble but risky plan to show support for women who were protesting Iran’s compulsory hijab laws.

Reza Khandan is a graphic designer, the husband of renowned human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, and a father of two. Farhad Meysami is a physician, teacher and textbook publisher.

The pair bought thousands of blank buttons and a small, hand-cranked button-making machine, printed green and red labels, and took turns producing buttons that said, in Farsi, “I Oppose the Mandatory Hijab”.

Their buttons caught the attention of fellow activists – and Iranian authorities. On June 13, 2018, Reza’s lawyer wife Nasrin was arrested for her work defending many of the women who publicly removed their hijabs.…  Seguir leyendo »

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“Dad, my sentence is death”, Mohammad Mehdi Karami informed his father in a phone call from prison last month. Then, last Saturday, the 21-year-old karate champion was executed by the Iranian regime. Karami, an Iranian Kurd, was hanged on the same day as Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, a volunteer children’s coach who was just 20. Both were accused of killing a member of the Basij paramilitary force. In the phone call, the younger Karami reportedly told his father he was tortured into making a false confession. All 16 accused in that case have denied the charges.

Their deaths add to the growing number of young protesters killed since Iranians took to the streets almost four months ago in women-led demonstrations sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.…  Seguir leyendo »

Demonstrators chant slogans while marching during the "March of Solidarity for Iran" in Washington on Oct. 15. STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Image

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On Sept. 16, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died from injuries allegedly inflicted by Iran’s so-called morality police. Ever since, Iranians across the country—and worldwide—have protested not only her death but also the Iranian regime itself.

In keeping with the Iranian government’s modus operandi, it has instituted nationwide internet shutdowns while simultaneously responding to peaceful protests with lethal force, arbitrary detentions, and other human rights violations. Despite the internet shutdowns, these violations by the state have been widely documented on independent news sites focused on Iran such as IranWire, in foreign and international media such as the Washington Post, and on social media by journalists, activists, and civilians.…  Seguir leyendo »

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A young woman died in hospital in Iran on September 16th after being detained by the morality police for showing too much of her hair. Mahsa Amini’s death ignited protests in more than 100 cities and street protesters openly declare that the Islamic Republic must go. The people of Iran are tired of theocratic tyranny. The movement’s chant is “Women, Life, Freedom”. But the realisation of this slogan will only be possible under a democratic and secular government.

During the 43 years since the revolution, many Iranian people have lost their lives for opposing the government. The true number killed is not clear as the government never reports such statistics.…  Seguir leyendo »

Hundreds protest in London in solidarity with Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who died while in police custody. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

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I am a free woman. It’s a luxury not afforded to the women of my motherland, Iran. As an Australian with Kurdish Iranian heritage, the past six weeks have been a whirlwind of emotion. A cocktail of fear, grief, guilt, pride and hope. Fear for the safety of millions of Iranians living under an oppressive rule. Grief for the hundreds of innocent lives lost, the thousands imprisoned and being brutally tortured. Guilt for not having been a stronger voice for a pain I know only too well. Death is the ultimate price for freedom in Iran. This disparity should not be lost on anyone living with basic human rights.…  Seguir leyendo »

Iranian demonstrators take to the streets of the capital Tehran during a protest for Mahsa Amini, days after she died in police custody, on September 21

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This week, two moments in the tumultuous and violent month-long uprising in Iran caught the international media’s attention with fresh urgency – a fire inside Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, and the whereabouts of an Iranian climber following a competition in South Korea.

Barely had the sound of sirens and gun shots faded from the prison compound when, half a world away in Seoul, the first Iranian woman to win a medal at the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World Championships was reported missing by friends after competing without a hijab.

For many like me among the Iranian diaspora glued to our screens watching events unfold, Elnaz Rekabi seemingly used her international sporting platform to defy the mandatory dress code at the expense of her own career – and safety.…  Seguir leyendo »

A guard looks at surveillance screens at Evin Prison in Tehran. (The Justice Of Ali/AP)

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The release of security camera footage from inside Iran’s notorious Evin Prison provides proof of what many already know to be true: that Iranian authorities routinely abuse prisoners and keep them in inhumane conditions. Among the scenes captured in the leaked videos are an inmate being beaten by multiple guards, another attempting to commit suicide and dozens of inmates being housed in a single room with bunk beds stacked three high. Those cramped quarters are certainly a contributing factor to the high spread of covid-19 inside Evin.

It’s difficult to predict what impact this leak might have, if any, especially since it’s still unclear who was behind it.…  Seguir leyendo »

Ruhollah Zam during his trial in Tehran in December. Credit Ali Shirband/Mizan News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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He has been dead for a month.

On Dec. 12 Iranians woke up to bleak news: Their government had executed Ruhollah Zam, a 42-year-old journalist. The sentencing judge described Mr. Zam as a spy, as someone who incited violence and had “sown corruption on earth”, a vague charge which is often used to describe attempts to overthrow the Iranian government.

Mr. Zam, who had been imprisoned in Iran after the disputed presidential election in 2009, fled to France in 2011, where he was granted political asylum. From Paris, he started Amad News, a popular anti-government website, which also operated on the encrypted messaging app Telegram and other social media platforms.…  Seguir leyendo »

Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh smiles at her house in Tehran in 2013. (Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images)

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This past weekend, Iran’s most prominent human rights defender, Nasrin Sotoudeh, entered the hospital because of heart and respiratory problems resulting from a nearly six-week-long hunger strike. Sotoudeh is a veteran of this extreme form of protest, but this time the circumstances are much more dire for her and other political prisoners in the country.

On Aug. 12, the 57-year-old lawyer stopped eating to protest the scandalous mistreatment of prisoners of conscience currently detained in Iran. The refusal of Iranian authorities to take any meaningful precautions to protect the health of political prisoners during the novel coronavirus pandemic dramatizes the depths of the government’s contempt for civil society and basic human rights.…  Seguir leyendo »

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“Some regimes oppress people so much that, one day, they are toppled for reasons that never occurred to them,” journalist Bahman Ahmadi Amouee writes in his devastating memoir, “Life in Prison,” in which he chronicles the years he spent as a political prisoner in Iran, from 2009 to 2014. Those words hold an important lesson for Iran today.

The arrest and long-term detention of prisoners of conscience is a tradition that goes back centuries in Iran — as it does everywhere. Now, mass arrests are experiencing a tragic revival, putting at risk thousands of people guilty of no other crime than protesting the Islamic Republic’s abuses of power.…  Seguir leyendo »

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States of emergency, such as wars, natural disasters and pandemics, have historically been fertile breeding grounds for human rights abuse. That’s exactly what we’re now seeing in Iran, the epicenter of covid-19 in the Middle East. The pandemic has caused thousands of deaths and brought its leadership’s incompetence, corruption and oppressive rule into plain sight. Yet the covid-19 threat is also laying bare the government’s continuing contempt for human rights.

The situation was already dire before the pandemic came along. In November 2019, about 1,500 Iranian protesters were reportedly killed by state security forces and thousands more imprisoned. Iranians mourned again in January, when security forces launched a missile that shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane, killing 176 people.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Le 20 mars, la libération de Roland Marchal, «prisonnier scientifique» en Iran depuis le 5 juin 2019, a confirmé le cynisme de la République islamique, ou tout au moins celui des acteurs qui en ont pris le contrôle au-delà de leurs prérogatives constitutionnelles. Comme le laissaient entendre les diplomates iraniens à mots de moins en moins couverts, sa détention était bien une prise de gage pour obtenir le renvoi en Iran de l’ingénieur Ruhollahnejad, arrêté en France sur mandat international émis par les Etats-Unis. Et comme la France n’avait sans doute plus de monnaie d’échange sous la main, Fariba Adelkhah, anthropologue de Sciences Po arrêtée en même temps que Roland Marchal (et à laquelle l’Université de Genève vient de décerner un doctorat honoris causa), reste en prison sine die.…  Seguir leyendo »

I thought the Iranian Revolution would bring freedom. I was wrong

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I write this letter to my daughters and their generation, 41 years after a revolution that my generation helped to bring about. I hope you forgive us for the mistake we made. Although we did not intend it, we have darkened your world.

Yes, we wanted to make the world a better place. We were dreamers. We dreamed of creating a country where both human rights and human dignity would be guarded by strong democratic institutions. We thought that we had every right to translate these beautiful ideas into reality.

Yet the border between idealism and naivete is sometimes blurred. In our idealism, we were naive enough to think that the cleric Ruhollah Khomeini was the man to make our dreams come true.…  Seguir leyendo »

People protesting on a highway against increased gas prices in Tehran in November. Credit Wana News Agency, via Reuters

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Historians will record the blood-soaked days of November as some of the worst mass killings of protesters in modern Iranian history. A sudden increase in fuel prices led to protests across the country; the regime responded with brute violence.

Amnesty International has verified “at least” 304 deaths between Nov. 15 and 18. Credible Iranian opposition sources have cited a preliminary figure of 366 while The New York Times reported that “180 to 450 people, and possibly more, were killed,” with “at least 2,000 wounded and 7,000 detained.” A statement from the Iranian Writers’ Association observed: “Every corner of Iran is mourning the atrocities.”…  Seguir leyendo »

Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh. (BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)

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On Wednesday, Iran’s leading human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, was arrested again. It was a reminder that President Hassan Rouhani is failing to deliver on many of the key reforms he promised when he was elected in 2013.

Writing on his Facebook page, Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, announced that “a few hours ago Nasrin was arrested at home and sent to the court at Evin [Prison].”

This family has been through all of this before. “I once told interrogators in the interrogation room: ‘Of all the things the authorities should do for their country, you only know one, and that is arresting people,'” Khandan fearlessly wrote in his post.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Esta semana, el mundo contiene el aliento durante la cuenta atrás de la decisión de Trump sobre Irán y Shirin Ebadi cruza el umbral de la puerta de mi casa. La primera mujer musulmana que ganó el Nobel de la Paz se revuelve contra esta escalada hacia la Guerra: “La cuestión nuclear no es el motivo, sino el pretexto. El problema con Irán es su agresiva política militar en Siria, en el Líbano y en Irak, pero la solución no es la guerra ni las sanciones, porque eso devolvería al regimen iraní el apoyo de la sociedad que está perdiendo”.

En la primavera de 2009, conocí a Shirin Ebadí en la ciudad guatemalteca de La Antigua.…  Seguir leyendo »

A woman standing on a telecommunications box on a Tehran street holds a hijab on a stick to protest against the country’s compulsory hijab rules in December 2017. (Salampix/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP)

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About two weeks ago, I received a gruesome death threat from Hamid Reza Ahmadabadi, one of the more prominent figures of the Basij — Iran’s much-dreaded paramilitary arm. In his message, he said I’d be butchered because I had been insulting the sanctity of Iran’s revolutionary and Islamic values. He warned that one of his agents in the United States would cut out my tongue and slash my breasts before killing me. I was to be “slaughtered” in the same manner that former opposition leaders had been murdered abroad in the 1990s.

In a later interview with the BBC Persian service, he reiterated the same threats, making references to the assassination of Shahpour Bakhtiar, the shah’s last prime minister, and Fereydoun Farrokhzad, a dissident artist who was murdered in Germany.…  Seguir leyendo »

El desafío de las mujeres iraníes

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EL 28 de diciembre pasado los medios de comunicación daban a conocer las protestas callejeras que habían estallado en Irán. Aparentemente, la llama había prendido por sorpresa en Mashhad -la segunda ciudad más grande del país- y en pocos días se había extendido a lo largo de 142 poblaciones. Y lo que se había iniciado como una protesta contra el alza de precios y la corrupción, se había convertido en un levantamiento político contra el Gobierno y, de manera inaudita, incluso contra el líder supremo, Alí Jamenei.

La mayoría de los medios occidentales han hablado de una "revuelta heterogénea", sin ningún tipo de liderazgo y por causas básicamente económicas.…  Seguir leyendo »

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La réélection du réformateur Hassan Rohani à la présidence de l’Iran va donner un nouvel élan aux délégations occidentales qui se ruent vers Téhéran pour y faire des affaires. A l’exemple de la Suisse, qui a été l’un des premiers pays à y envoyer une délégation économique.

Pourtant, la plupart des investissements étrangers sont en pleine contradiction avec les Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU, car ils vont dans le pétrole et le gaz… Certains font aussi remarquer qu’ils ne servent qu’à renforcer le régime et l’armée et ne profitent pas à la population locale. Lors d’une réunion au parlement à Berne, des représentants des minorités iraniennes ont demandé de ne pas investir du tout en Iran, ou au moins de respecter les droits humains, les standards du travail et l’environnement.…  Seguir leyendo »