Earthquakes measuring between 3 and 5 on the Richter scale have rocked six Iranian provinces since 11 PM last night, April 19, stretching into the early hours of today, Saturday. IRNA reports that the largest of these quakes happened at 2:11 AM in the city of Ahl in the central province of Fars. It […]
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Gonabadi Dervishes Gather in Front of Bandar Abbas’s Intelligence Office
The Gonabadi Dervishes residing in the city of Bandar Abbas, gathered in front of Hormozgan Province’s Intelligence office this morning on Saturday, 31 Farvardin 1392 ( April 20, 2013).According to Majzooban Noor, this morning, after the arrest of Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website, his family along with more […]
Detention of Gonabadi Dervish, Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad in The City of Bandar Abbas
Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, Gonabadi Dervish and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website , arrested at his own home in the city of Bndar Abbas this morning on Saturday, 31 Farvardin 1392 ( April 20, 2013).According to Majzooban Noor, around 6 o’clock in the morning, security forces and plain-clothes entered to the house […]
Belgian Minister shares concern of religious persecution such as dervishes in Iran
In a mail the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders expresses his concern about the human rights situation in Iran in general and the persecution of religious minorities, such as the dervishes, in particular. “Your mail of 15 April had my full attention. I share your concern about the […]
Gulestan Of Saadi : CHAPTER I – The Manners Of Kings ( Story 13-14-15 )
Persian Language & Literature “Gulestan” Saadi Shirazi, Sheikh Mosleh al-Din CHAPTER I – THE MANNERS OF KINGS Story 13 I heard a king, who had changed night into day by pleasures, saying in his drunkenness: ‘We have in the world no moment more delightful than this, Because I care neither for good nor for bad […]
Health concerns rise for jailed Iranian activist
The wife of political prisoner Mehdi Khazali says her husband is being held in a “tight cell without any basic services” and his health is seriously at risk. The Kaleme website reports that a number of political activists visited the family of jailed activist Mehdi Khazali, and they were told that his calls to […]
CPJ urges Iranian authorities to release journalists
New York, April 18, 2013–The cases of an Iranian blogger imprisoned for seven months without trial and a prominent freelance journalist whose health has deteriorated in prison illustrate the ongoing abuses being perpetrated by Iranian authorities, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Kaveh Taheri, a blogger who has been held at […]
Public Outcry in Kurdish City After Male Suspect Paraded in Female Clothing
A group of Kurdish activist women from Marivan, along with a few citizens of the city, held a demonstration April 16 on the main streets of the city in protest of the authorities’ parading a man in Marivan after dressing him in the traditional women’s clothing of Kurdistan, a local source told the International […]
IHRDC Releases Latest Report – “On the Margins: Arrest, Imprisonment and Execution of Kurdish Activists in Iran Today”
For decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has led a targeted campaign of repression against Kurdish activists within Iran’s borders. Today, this persecution is particularly acute, with an estimated 14 Kurdish activists currently on death row in Iran. The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center’s latest 70-page report, “On the Margins: Arrest, Imprisonment and Execution […]
Gender Inequality and Discrimination: The Case of Iranian Women
Today, on this year’s International Women’s Day, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) is pleased to release “Gender Inequality and Discrimination: The Case of Iranian Women”, a 60+ page legal commentary from Iranian lawyer Mohammad Hossein Nayyeri. In his commentary, Nayyeri analyzes the impact of discriminatory laws, as written and as applied, on […]