Iran Human Rights

Iran Human Rights is an international non-profit human rights organization founded probably in 2007. The main focus of Iran Human Rights is human rights violations such as death penalty in general and the death penalty for juvenile offenders in particular in Iran. Delara Darabi, Behnoud Shojaee, Mohammadreza Haddadi, and Sakineh Ashtiani are among the recent cases Iran Human Rights has focused on. Besides Iran, the organization has members in several European, Asian and North American countries. The human rights defender and neuroscientist Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam is the co-founder and international spokesperson of the organization and is based in Oslo, Norway.[1]

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Iran Human Rights is one of the leading NGOs working towards the abolition of the death penalty in Iran. Iran Human Rights' annual reports on the death penalty [2] are widely by the international community used as a point of reference. Because of its broad network inside Iran, Iran Human Rights receives reports regarding the death penalty cases which have been carried out secretly or have not been announced by the official media in Iran.[3] Besides reporting on and monitoring the death penalty trends, Iran Human Rights works with the international media to create awareness about the situation of the death penalty in Iran[4][5]

Iran Human Rights is an elected member of the Steering Committee of the World Coalition Against the Death penalty[6]