Washington is calling on Tehran to release three Iranian opposition leaders who have been under house arrest since 2011 without being formally charged with any crime. The U.S. State Department issued the call on February 14 – marking the third anniversary of the detention of former presidential candidates and opposition leaders Mehdi Karrubi and […]
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Gonabadi Dervish, Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad Refuses to Appear in Court
Gonabadi Dervish and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website, Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, refused to attend his trial which was supposed to take place this morning-26 Bahman in Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court in the city of Bandar Abbas.According to a report by Majzooban Noor, a trial date had been set down […]
Gonabadi Dervishes Get Trial After 10 Months in Jail
Four detained Gonabadi Dervishes have finally been given a trial after spending 10 months in Shiraz’s Adel-Abad prison. The Majzooban Noor website reports that on Thursday morning 24th of Bahman 1392 (February 13, 2014), Messrs. Mohsen Esmaeeli, Seyed Ebrahim Bahrami, Mohammad Ali Sadeghi and Mohammad Ali Dehghan stood trial for the charges of “forming […]
Release opposition leaders under house arrest three years on
The easing of restrictions placed on former presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife, university professor and political activist, Zahra Rahnavard, since the election of President Rouhani is not enough, warned Amnesty International on the third anniversary of the house arrest of the three opposition figures. The opposition leaders have […]
Sunni group offers to exchange abducted guards for prisoners
The Jeysh-ol-adl organization has issued a statement calling for the release of 300 Sunni prisoners in exchange for the release of five Iranian border officers who were abducted by the group last week. The organization’s statement calls for the release of 50 of its members as well as 200 other Sunnis being held in […]
Rights group calls opposition house arrests “illegal”
The Human Rights Defenders Centre has issued a statement declaring that the house arrests of Zahra Rahnavard, MirHosein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi are “illegal.” The statement, signed by Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, marks three years since the three opposition leaders were put under house arrest. It says that according to the Iranian […]
Rights group calls opposition house arrests “illegal”
The Human Rights Defenders Centre has issued a statement declaring that the house arrests of Zahra Rahnavard, MirHosein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi are “illegal.” The statement, signed by Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, marks three years since the three opposition leaders were put under house arrest. It says that according to the Iranian […]
President Rouhani May Join Facebook, Says his Minister
Iran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Mahmoud Vaezi, said again this week that he is a proud Facebook user. “I have been a member and I’m pretty involved [with Facebook]. I keep posting things and I always use the comments I receive,” he told the reporters. Vaezi told the reporters that, overall, he […]
Republishing Information on the Occasion of The Eighth Anniversary of Demolition of Gonabadi Dervishes Worship-Place (Hosseiniyeh) in Qom
Today 24 Bahman 1392 (Feb 13 2014) is the eighth anniversary of destruction of Gonabadi dervishes worship-place (Hosseiniyeh) in the city of Qom.An attack on a Gonabadi dervishes’ place of worship “Shariat Hosseiniye”, took place in Qom in February 2006. According to official reports 1,200 followers of the order were arrested during the incident […]
CPJ: Attacks on the press
Iran remains one of the world’s worst jailers of journalists. – Iranians voice hope for new era with election of President Hassan Rouhani. Iran remained one of the most censored countries in the world. In the lead-up to the June 2013 presidential elections, then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government pre-emptively arrested journalists, banned publications, harassed family […]