We highly encourage anyone who cares about human rights to listen to this powerful and informative episode of Border Lines, hosted by Steven Meurrens. 🎙️ This episode dives deep into a critical issue that’s been ignored for far too long. Canada’s approach to IRGC conscripts reveals

The Iranian regime has launched a new crackdown to hunt down conscripts who avoided service, going door to door to inspect businesses, ban employers from hiring them, and report those eligible for conscription to the Iran’s conscription enforcement agency. These young men are

The situation in Iran is heartbreaking. While the regime plays with fire and fuels conflict, it is ordinary people, our families, our friends, who suffer in silence and fear. As tensions rise between Iran and Israel, we pray for the safety of innocent civilians on both sides.

Today, as Israel struck multiple targets across Iran, many conscripts, young men forced into service, were caught in the crossfire. Some are dead. Some are missing. All are forgotten. These were not regime loyalists. They were sons, brothers, fathers—ordered by law to serve, or

UnheardConscripts IRGC conscripts have no choice but to obey the law, under threat. That’s not allegiance. Lena Metlege Diab Gary Anandasangaree x.com/TJ_____TJ/stat…

What a time to be alive: On one screen, we see Mohsen Sazegara—a founding father of the IRGC living comfortably in the U.S.—and Mehdi Nasiri, a former senior hardliner and one of Ayatollah Khamenei’s closest allies, now residing in Canada. Both appear as if they’ve always

This CBC article may be old, but the injustice it reveals is still very real: ▶️ A mother separated from her son because he was forced into IRGC conscription years ago. ▶️ Canada claims to ban regime officials, but in reality, it targets victims of the regime. Her son was never

Canadian jurisprudence on security inadmissibility holds that the scope of who may be found inadmissible can reasonably be very broad, in part because affected individuals have the option to apply for Ministerial Relief. However, many lawyers, including myself, have argued that

Ensuring fair treatment of IRGC conscripts, as previously promised by Canadian authorities, remains a critical test of Canada’s commitment to justice. This video underscores the discrepancy between official assurances and the reality conscripts continue to face. After more than a

Today we received the first Federal Court decision for a former IRGC conscript. The judge upheld inadmissibility, treating a forced conscript as a “member.” For thousands of non-citizen Iranians in Canada, this is devastating. It confirms our worst fear: Even the courts are now

اشاره‌ای دوباره دربابِ تروریستی اعلام‌ شدنِ «تبلیغاتیِ » سپاه در کانادا و یک پی‌نوشتِ عجیب! —— درسِ تجربه به ما نشان داده است که تروریستی اعلام کردن سپاه از سوی کشورهای مختلف، بازی تبلیغاتی بی‌معنایی بوده و هست که یگانه برآیندش تا به امروز، به نشانه‌گیریِ اهدافِ آسان و بی‌دلیل،

Sohrabi nia have deep sympathy for the families of forced conscripts, innocent people who never chose to serve and who do not deserve to be treated as if they did. Recently, I met with a group of affected families to listen to their fears, their hardships, and the very real challenges they

Before the IRGC listing, we were promised conscripts wouldn't be affected. After the listing, we were assured decisions would be made case by case to avoid penalizing people for mandatory service they couldn't refuse. But the first "case-by-case" outcome just released is a

#IranianFormerConscripts have been victimized from every angle. Two years of youth lost to forced service in Iran, the silence of influential figures like Hamed Esmaeilion who chose not to speak up after clear promises were broken, and now a report by an ايران اينترنشنال journalist claiming,

Today, on International Human Rights Day, we are reminded that justice means protecting the vulnerable, not punishing them. IRGC conscripts are victims of forced conscription under a brutal regime. They had no choice, no agency, no voice, and no involvement in IRGC activities.

On #HumanRightsDay, it’s also important to recognize another overlooked problem: Iranian individuals who were forced into conscription and are being treated as members of an organization they had no choice but to serve. These are ordinary people who completed an obligatory