Two-year prison term for Gonabadi Dervish, Ali Moazzami was upheld by appeals court with no changes.According to Majzooban Noor, Ali Moazzami who has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment by the Branch 15 of Tehran Revolutionary Court presided over by judge Abolqasem Salavati on charges of “gathering and colluding against national security” (Islamic Penal […]
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Open letter to the eight candidates in the Islamic Republic’s 11th presidential election
Reporters Without Borders has written an open letter to the eight approved candidates in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s 11th presidential election, requesting that they publicly commit themselves to support freedom of information. The list of eight approved candidates published yesterday by the Guardian Council – whose members are directly chosen and appointed by […]
Daughter of late Supreme Leader urges election reconsideration
Zahra Mostafavi, the daughter of the late founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Khomeini, has written a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader, urging him to reconsider the Guardian Council’s disqualification of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani from the race for president. ISNA reports that Zahra Mostafavi’s letter to Ayatollah Khamenei mentions that on the day his […]
Ahmadinejad’s candidate will challenge disqualification
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke out against the Guardian Council’s disqualification of his chief advisor from the presidential race, saying: “I will pursue the matter until the last moment through the Supreme Leader.” Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying: “I introduced Mr. Mashai and I know him… he has been wronged. But in a country where we […]
Rafsanjani won’t challenge ejection from presidential race
The head of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani’s election headquarters announced that the moderate cleric will not challenge his disqualification by the Guardian Council from running in the presidential race. ISNA reports that in an interview, Eshagh Jahangiri confirmed that Hashemi Rafsanjani will not protest the decision. “Hashemi Rafsanjani and his supporters entered the scene with […]
Kahrizak Plaintiff Withdraws Murder Suit Against Mortazavi; No Witnesses Summoned
The tenth session of the trial of former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi and two other officials for the deaths in Kahrizak Prison of three detainees in 2009 opened yesterday with the father of one of the victims withdrawing his “participation in murder” suit against Mortazavi. The eleventh and final session of the trial is […]
Rafsanjani, Mashaie Barred From Iran’s Presidential Election
Iran state TV and the Fars news agency are reporting that former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, a leading ally of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, have been barred from running in the June 14 presidential election. The reports said Rafsanjani and Mashaie were not on the list of candidates vetted by Iran’s […]
Rafsanjani And Mashaei Disqualified From Elections
The Interior Ministry has finally released the results of those who can run for the presidency. Mashaei and Rafsanjani were vetted out. Here is the list: 1) Saeed Jalili 2) GR. Haddad Adel 3) Mohsen Rezaei 4) Hasan Rawhani 5) Mohammad Reza Aref 6) Mohammad Gharazi 7) Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf 8) Ali Akbar Velayati
International Religious Freedom Report for 2012
Executive Summary Foremost among the rights Americans hold sacred is the freedom to worship as we choose…we also remember that religious liberty is not just an American right; it is a universal human right to be protected here at home and across the globe. This freedom is an essential part of human dignity, and […]
Iran’s prisoners of conscience – an interactive guide
As Iran gears up for a presidential election in June, the conditions in which prisoners of conscience are held in some of the country’s most notorious prisons have worsened. Below are some of the activists, students, journalists, women’s rights campaigners, lawyers, artists, former politicians and members of Iran’s religious and ethnic minorities who have […]