Ziba Mohammadian, the wife of Mohammad Ali Taheri, has been arrested at her house last Wednesday. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Ziba Mohammadian, the wife of Mohammad Ali Taheri, the conscience prisoner of Evin prison, has been arrested at her house on Wednesday, July 2. An informed source […]
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Journalist summoned to court to serve sentence
Iranian journalist Marzieh Rasouli says on her Twitter page that she has been summoned to serve out her sentence of imprisonment and fifty lashes. She adds that she will report to court on Tuesday in response to the summons. Rasouli was arrested at her home in 2011 and released three months later on bail […]
MPs end call for removal of science minister
A group of MPs withdrew their call to impeach the Minister of Science and Technology after Minister Reza Farajidana promised to address their concerns in a meeting that included the MPs and parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani. A spokesman for Parliament’s Education Commission told IRNA that the MPs who had been calling for the impeachment […]
Jailed journalist speaks to family after weeks
Saba Azarpeyk, the Iranian journalist who has been under arrest since late May, has contacted her mother for the first time in more than 40 days. Her mother, Akram Mohammadi, told ILNA that her daughter contacted them, as was promised by the investigator, and expressed serious hope that she soon would be released. Azarpeyk […]
Professors write in defence of embattled Science Minister
More than 900 professors at Iranian universities have issued a statement expressing their support for Science and Technology Minister Reza Faraji-Dana. The Etemad daily reports that in a letter to Ali Larijani, the head of Parliament, the professors express dismay regarding the actions that a number of MPs have taken against the minister of […]
Miners in Semnan Province stage sit-in to protest privatization
Miners at the Eastern Alborz Mine began a strike today, Sunday July 6, to protest the privatization of the mine. OLNA reports that according to the workers’ representative, about 1,400 coal miners from the Eastern Alborz Mine in the Province of Semnan have stopped working and gathered on the mine premises for a sit-in. […]
Iranian official complains to UN about rapporteur’s “bias”
According to aeport by Radio Zamaneh, the head of the Iranian judiciary’s Human Rights Headquarters has written to the United Nation’s High Commissioner of Human Rights to denounce the “biased positions and unprofessional performance” of the UN’s human rights rapporteur for Iran. Mohammad Javad Larijani’s official letter has been published in the Iranian media. […]
Dervishes Online; An Interview with Farhad Nouri of Majzooban Noor
How have Iran’s persecuted religious minorities used technology to organise themselves, express their religious beliefs, and cultivate online faith communities?The Islamic Republic of Iran has been waging an intense and protracted campaign of discrimination and violent persecution against several of the country’s religious minority communities, whilst reducing others to second-class citizenship through inhumane legislation andinstitutionalised discrimination.But these communities are […]
Death Anniversary of His Excellency Mr. Hajj Ali Tabandeh “Mahboub Ali Shah” in Evin and Nezam Prisons
Death anniversary of Mr. Hajj Ali Tabandeh “Mahboub Alishah” was held in Tehran Evin and Shiraz Nezam Prisons by jailed Dervishes on 12 Tir 93 ( July 3, 2014). According to Majzooban Noor’s reporter, yesterday evening, the imprisoned Gonabadi Dervish lawyers and administrators of Majzooban Noor website ( Nematollahi Gonabadi Order News Site ) […]
Wave of Hunger Strikes in Prisons; Are We Aware?
A widescale hunger strike is currently underway among Iranian political prisoners yet we are unaware of its details and are not doing anything about it. We won’t until we hear the news of the death of one of them. If there are some who are doing something about this, their actions are limited to […]