According to the oral order of the deputy prosecutor, the prison authorities of Evin by dispatching the guards of the jail, threatened the imprisoned dervishes admitted in the Shohada e Tajrish hospital to take them back to the jail if they defy using handcuffs and shackles.Majzooban Noor added that following Mr .Khodabakhshi’s two ago […]
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Religious Site of Gonabadi Dervishes Threatened Again, Gonabadi Religious Premises is on the Brink of Closure in Kish Island
Kish Free Zone Organization by unloading a truck of building materials in front of a Gonabadi dervish’s house which the religious ceremony of Gonabadi dervishes is held there, asked the residents of this private house to evacuate immediately this location.A report issued by Majzooban Noor adds, not long ago, a group known as Free […]
Iran bans magazine after ‘white marriage’ special
Zanan-e Emrouz runs foul of country’s sharia-based laws with issue about unmarried couples cohabiting. Sex outside marriage is crime in Iran, punishable by flogging. In cases of adultery, it can carry a sentence of death by stoning. Photograph: John Moore/Getty ImagesReuters in Ankara Iran’s judiciary has banned a magazine for encouraging cohabitation, according to […]
Rohani says religious oversight not the job of police
Iranian President Hassan Rohani told a meeting of security force commanders on Saturday that the police must enforce the law and not Islam.“The police are not responsible for executing Islam, they are charged with the execution of the law, and any other expectation would create confusion and cause problems for the people.” In a […]
Iran Is the 7th Most Censored Country in the World
In accordance with the Annual Report of the Committee to Protect Journalists; in about 10 countries which are most censored by the government, Iran is the seventh one. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), the report states that Eritrea, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Azerbaijan and Vietnam […]
Poverty and Absence of Justice Continue to Grow
The monthly report of the Iranian Center for the Defenders of Human Rights (Kanoon Modafean Hoghooge Bashar) for the month of Farvardin (March 21st to April 21st) references Younes Asakareh who set himself on fire in the city of Khoramshahr last month and reports that the incident shows the growing rate of poverty and […]
Mohammadreza Alipayam Summoned to Evin Prison
Mohammadreza Alipayam, poet and critic satire, has been summoned to Evin prison. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Mohammadreza Alipayam has announced that he will go to Evin Prison to serve his imprisonment sentence on Wednesday afternoon at 2pm. This critic poet was sentenced to one year and half […]
Dust storms continue onslaught on Iran’s western provinces
Iran’s western provinces have been suffering the impact of dust storms since Wednesday April 22, with limited visibility and disruptions to daily life being felt from Eastern and Western Azerbaijan, Zanjan, Kermanshah, to Khuzestan, Lorestan, Ilam, Chahar Mahal Bakhtiyari, and today also in Fars province and the City of Shiraz.Fast winds have been carrying […]
Prominent Iranians’ Views on Impact of Nuclear Agreement on Human Rights
“Our next agreement will be on our civil rights!” was one of the slogans people chanted in Tehran only hours after a nuclear agreement was reached on April 2, during their street celebrations. During his election campaign, President Hassan Rouhani repeatedly pledged to observe citizens’ rights, end the house arrest of the Green Movement […]
Sheikh Bahai Prominent Scholar of Safavid Era
Active ImageIranians commemorate the birth anniversary of Sheikh Bahaei on April 23.Shaykh Baha’ ad-Din al-‘Amili, Shaykh Bahai (February 1547 – 30 August 1621) was a scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet in 16th-century Iran. He was born in Baalbek, Lebanon but immigrated in his childhood to Safavid Iran with his father. He wrote […]