Priest Verveer Avanessian, the official priest of Iranian Churches who is severely ill and requires intensive medical care is sentenced to three and half years in prison. According to Mohabat News quoted from Radio Zamaneh, Iranian judiciary has announced the prison sentence of Verveer Avanessian, on Thursday December 5. The court announced his charges […]
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Ministry directors fired over bugging of MP’s office
Iranian MP Ali Motahari, who previously complained about his office being bugged, announced on Saturday December 14 that two senior managers in the Intelligence Ministry have been dismissed over the incident. Motahari reported on his website that the Minister of Intelligence dismissed the two individuals, and he linked the incident to the ministry’s former […]
Dead blogger’s family abandons manslaughter case
The family of Sattar Beheshti, the jailed blogger who died while in the custody of cyber police, has decided not to pursue the case through the judiciary. Giti Pourfazel, the lawyer for the family, told ISNA that the court has dropped the charge of first degree murder, and the family is not interested in […]
RSF Denounces Censorship In Name Of Religion
In a new report, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) documents censorship that is being exercised in the name of religion and God. In the report released on December 13, the Paris-based group says news and content providers in “far too many countries” constantly face what it calls this “very special and formidable form of censorship.” […]
Farhadi’s “The Past” gets Golden Globe nomination
Asghar Farhadi’s latest film, The Past, has been nominated for the best foreign language film at the Golden Globe Awards. The nominees for the 71st Golden Globe Awards were announced by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association on December 12. Farhadi’s The Past will compete with: Blue is the Warmest Colour, the French film and […]
EU removes Iranian shipping directors from blacklist
The director of legal claims for Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping announced today that the European Court of Justice has removed all Iranian shipping directors from the EU blacklist. The Mehr News Agency reports that 10 Iranian shipping directors were removed from the EU blacklist. After Iran and the 5+1 reached an agreement in […]
Iranian delegation leaves nuclear talks over U.S. blacklisting
The Mehr News Agency reports that in reaction to the U.S. blacklisting of additional companies due to their connections with Iran, the Iranian delegation has called a halt to technical talks in Vienna with the 5+1 over implementation of the earlier Geneva agreement and returned to Iran. Mehr quotes “an informed source” saying the […]
Hepatitis statistics show long-term decline in Iran
The head of Iran’s Hepatitis Research Network reported on Saturday December 14 that 1.6 million people in Iran carry the hepatitis virus. ILNA reports that according to the statistics presented, 1.4 million suffer from hepatitis B and fewer than 200,000 have hepatitis C. The reports indicate that 30 years ago, over seven percent of […]
Amnesty International: Jailed journalist brothers sentenced
Brothers Khosro and Masoud Kordpour, both journalists from Iran’s Kurdish minority, were sentenced on 10 November to prison terms of respectively six years and three-and-a-half years. On 10 December Masoud Korpour wrote an open letter to the Iranian authorities demanding his and his brother’s release. On 10 November, the Mahabad Revolutionary Court in the […]
Amnesty International: Death row Kurds on hunger strike
URGENT ACTION DEATH ROW KURDS ON HUNGER STRIKE Six Sunni men from Iran’s Kurdish minority have been on hunger strike since 4 November, in protest at their death sentences and the conditions they are held in. All have been suffering health problems as a result. Jamshid Dehghani, his younger brother Jahangir Dehghani, Hamed Ahmadi, […]