Jen Psaki The U.S. State Department announced on Wednesday that relief on sanctions will be proportionate to Iran’s actions regarding its nuclear program. Reuters reports that State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said the Obama administration has not yet urged Congress to refrain from imposing additional […]
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Convicts Who Survive Executions Are Not Executed Again, Says Lawyer
One day after sweeping news of the unsuccessful execution of a convict who was hanged on Wednesday, October 16 but who was discovered alive at the morgue when his family came to take his body for burial, the hospitalized convict’s fate remains ambiguous. A judge from the Administrative Justice Court has stated that “The […]
Mostafa Tajzadeh Faces New Charges in Prison
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Fakhrolsadat Mohtashamipour, wife of Mostafa Tajzadeh, prisoner of conscience and political activist, said that a new case has been opened and a new indictment issued for her husband, the content of which is as yet unknown to them. Fakhrolsadat Mohtashamipour said that […]
Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st January 2013)
17.10.2013-Two journalists released on completing jail terms Reporters Without Borders has learned that Alireza Roshan, a journalist who worked for the Tehran-based Sufi website Majzooban Nor and the book review section of the newspaper Shargh, was released on 15 October on completing a one-year jail sentence. Arrested during a raid on the website’s office […]
Amnesty International: Iran must halt execution of prisoner who ‘survived hanging’
Iran must stop the execution of man who was found alive at a morgue a day after being hanged, Amnesty International urged today after authorities said the prisoner would be hanged for a second time once his condition improves. The 37-year-old, identified as “Alireza M”, was hanged in Bojnourd prison in north-east Iran last […]
EU’s Top Diplomat Praises ‘Substantive’ Iran Nuclear Talks
Talks between Iran and six world powers on Tehran’s controversial nuclear program have ended on an upbeat note, with the European Union’s top diplomat calling them “substantive” and “very important.” Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign-policy chief, said on October 16 at the end of the two-day talks in Geneva that the next high-level […]
Cleric urges “extremists” to keep from blocking diplomatic blossoming
Iranian moderate cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani says it is vital that “extremists” allow Iran to establish relations with the world. The Mehr News Agency reports that Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani said in Kermanshah: “If extremists allow us to establish relations with the world, many of the country’s problems would be resolved; otherwise we cannot achieve […]
A Sunni religious leader was summoned to intelligence office
Mamousta Abdolghaffar Mohammadi, a Sunni leader of Alak village, was summoned and threatened by intelligence and security forces. The intelligence and security service officers, have sealed the village’s mosque.According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Mamousta Abdolghaffar Mohammadi, the clergy and religious leader of Alak village, has been summoned and […]
Young Iranian women face new employment restrictions
Young Iranian women looking for work face new restrictions as the Majles (parliament) debates a bill prohibiting government departments from recruiting both single and childless married women. One advocate of the bill – the General Population and Family Promotion Plan – is female conservative MP Fateme Aliya, who has already supported other laws restricting […]
Iran’s 600 female judges may not give rulings
There are over six hundred female judges in Iran, most of them working in family courts. They do not however have the right to make rulings until they have been approved by a male judge. According to Ali Nazari, head of human resources and employment at the Iranian Ministry of Justice, eighty qualified female […]