Arbitrary detention On April 5, Mostafa Tork Hamadani, lawyer of Ali Motahari, announced that Motahari’s attackers have been freed on bail and that the judiciary has summoned officials from Shiraz University. This university had organized the conference for which Motahari had traveled to Shiraz and on the way to which was attacked by plainclothesmen.Trials […]
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Gulestan Of Saadi : CHAPTER I – The Manners Of Kings ( Story 16-19 )
Persian Language & Literature “Gulestan”Saadi Shirazi, Sheikh Mosleh al-Din Story 16 One of my friends complained of the unpropitious times, telling me that he had a slender income, a large family, without strength to bear the load of poverty and had often entertained the idea to emigrate to another country so that no matter how […]
Iran Teaching Head Sent To Jail
The secretary-general of Iran’s Teachers’ Organization was arrested on April 20 and transferred to Tehran’s Evin prison to serve a five-year sentence, Iran’s semi-official ILNA news agency reported. Alireza Hashemi was sentenced to prison in 2010 for “pursuing union demands” and “meeting with relatives of jailed teachers,” his deputy, Tahereh Naghiyi, told ILNA. Naghiyi […]
A Report about Political Prisoners Situation in Ward 350 in Evin Prison
The warden of section 350 at Evin prison is using criminal prisoners as a tool to put pressure on the politic prisoners of this ward and to abuse them. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), with the continuous trend of increasing pressure on the political prisoners- the […]
Three Gonabadi Dervishes Transferred to Exile Sites after Three Days of Illegal Detention in Department of Intelligence
The three Gonabadi Dervishes sentenced to exile who had been arrested at the entrance of police station of city Kavar last week, after three days of illegal detention in the Department of Intelligence of Shiraz so-called No. 100 have been sent to their exile sites.Majzooban Noor goes on that Kazem Dehghan, Hamidreza Arayesh and […]
Salehedin Moradi Transferred to Nezam Prison
Salehedin Moradi, one of the rights activists of Gonabadi Dervishes, has been moved from central prison of Shiraz to prison No. 2 so-called Nezam.This rights activist of Gonabadi dervishes whose mustache had recently been shaved illegally and mandatorily, then transferred to the ward 4 of prison of Adel Abad, once again has been sent […]
Animal-Rights Activists In Shiraz Protest Apparent Stray-Dog Killings
By Hooman Askary April 18, 2015 A group of animal-rights activists protested on April 17 in the city of Shiraz, the capital of Iran’s Fars Province, against animal cruelty and abuse of stray dogs. The rare protest, in front of the building of the provincial department of environmental protection, was organized after a […]
Human Rights Situation in Iran / Annual Report 2014
The Department of Statistics and Publications of the Human Rights Activists in Iran has published an analytical report on the human rights situation in Iran during the one-year period (2014-2015). This report is the result of daily efforts of the organization and its dedicated members in the past few years based on a survey-based […]
Worsening Conditions for Women in Iran Begin to Draw Attention
Rouhani and Other Administration Officials Speak Out against Discrimination Analysis– Almost two years after his 2013 election, President Hassan Rouhani and his Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, Shahindokht Molaverdi, spoke up against discrimination against women this week, in the face of steadily deteriorating conditions for women in Iran. “The government considers it […]
No News from Three Dervishes Sentenced to Exile
While four days have passed of the arrest of three Gonabadi Dervishes sentenced to exile at the entrance road led to Kavar, still no precise information has leaked from their current condition and status. According to Majzooban Noor, although the local authorities over the past days proclaimed that the dispatch of the dervishes to […]