According to a report by Radio Zamaneh, Iranian political prisoner Shahram Radmehr was transferred from prison for medical treatments for the second time this week, and his health remains precarious. Radmehr’s knees are so inflamed he is unable to sit, and according to his family, the lack of adequate care could make him […]
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Chairman of Iran’s Assembly of Experts Hospitalized
The chairman of Iran’s Assembly of Experts has reportedly been hospitalized after suffering a heart failure. The hard-line Fars and Tasnim news agencies reported that 83-year-old Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani was in a coma. But the semi-official ISNA news agency quoted Kani’s office as saying that his heart condition has deteriorated but that the […]
Iran’s IRGC Commander Admits to Interference in 2009 Election
In a newly released video, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Ali Jaafari, in a speech to an audience which appears to be composed of Guard commanders, details the role of the Guards in the 2009 presidential election and the subsequent violent crackdown of the post-election protest movement. The video was edited and […]
Dispute Over Heaven Rages In Iran
Twenty-five years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s death, the clerical establishment ushered in by the Islamic republic’s founding father is at odds over how far its influence on Iranians’ lives should extend. The debate pits powerful, hard-line religious conservatives against Iran’s relatively moderate president, Hassan Rohani. And at the center of the debate is heaven, […]
Freed Iranian rights lawyer: ‘I’ve a bad feeling about the women I left behind’
The arrest and jailing of Nasrin Sotoudeh prompted an international outcry. Here she speaks of her ordeal Nasrin Sotoudeh’s seven-year-old son, Nima, wants to go out to play. His mother, the leading Iranian human rights lawyer whose arbitrary imprisonment in 2010 sparked an international campaign to free her, has been talking for ages. Nima […]
IFJ Demands that Iranian Authorities Free Imprisoned Journalists
The International Federation of journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate, the Association of Iranian journalists (AoIJ), to demand that the government of Iran follows up on its election promises by showing respect for press freedom and releasing all journalists imprisoned in the country. According to the AoIJ, three more Iranian journalists have been imprisoned […]
Four Dervishes Sentenced to 28 Years in Exile on Charge of “Enmity with God”
Branch 2 of Shiraz’s Revolutionary Court convicted four jailed Gonabadi Dervishes from Fars province and sentencing them to seven years each into exile on charges of “enmity with God, and corruption on earth”.According to a report by Majzooban Noor, the Shiraz Revolutionary Court issued its verdict against four Gonabadi Dervishes named Mohammad-Ali Dehghan Bouraki, […]
Security Forces conduct raid on Sunni prisoners
More than 70 members of the Security Forces raided Section 4, Ward 10 of Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj on Saturday, disrespecting the prisoners’ religious books and removing some of their property. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the section of the prison holds more than 95 Sunni prisoners […]
A Children’s Right activist arrested in Tabriz
Saied Shirzad, Children’s Right activist, was arrested last night in Tabriz and was taken to an unknown place. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Saied Shirzad Children’s Right activist was arrested at his workplace in Tabriz Refinery. He was arrested on 21 August when he went to Ahar, East […]
Sudden steel plant closure throws 275 out of work
The Ardebil Steel Plant closure on Monday June 2 has left 275 workers without a job. The Mehr news agency reports that the Ardebil Steel Plant, located in City of Namin, operated in three shifts. The report indicates that the workers were suddenly locked out of the factory and the closure came without any […]