CNN – In March 2009, when I was detained in Evin Prison in Iran, two evangelical Christians were arrested. I never met them but spotted them a few times through the barred window of my cell as they walked back and forth to the bathroom down the hall.
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Gonabadi Dervish arrested in Tehran
Mr. Nasrollah Laleh ,one of the Gonabadi Dervishes who is head of Haghighat publishing, was arrested by security forces.
Workers enter fifth day of protests
More than 200 workers at Shiraz Telecommunications factories protested in front of the Fars Governor’s building for a fifth straight day to demand unpaid wages.
Political prisoners: ‘Don’t give legitimacy to elections’
GVF — Iranians are witnessing an “undeclared martial law” in their country, according to a group of political prisoners held in the notorious Evin Prison.
“Starred” student activist endures more abuse in gruesome Iranian prison
Starred student activist Zia Nabavi is illegally held in prison exile. In Iran, a starred student is banned from pursuing higher education because he or she spoke out against educational discrimination, a practice denied by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Western pressure, inflation send Iran’s rial to record low
(Reuters) – International sanctions imposed on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme, coupled with high inflation and fear of a military strike by Israel, has led Iran’s currency to fall to its lowest-ever level against the U.S. dollar.
Iran turns attention to plunging currency
By Marc Burleigh(AFP) — Iranian officials, lawmakers and media on Wednesday snapped their focus on to their country’s sanctions-hit economy amid a sudden and accelerating plunge in the currency.
Weeks in Ancient Persia
Week and weekdays have important application in calendar systems both solar and lunar. Even though world’s different calendars vary in many calculation details and other features, the method of reckoning based on seven-day week is the same in all of them.
Cracks threaten Iran’s historic site
The famous tomb of four Achaemenid kings, known as the archaeological site Naghsh-e Rostam, is threatened with destruction by cracks that have appeared at the foot of the mountain that holds it.
Iranian prisoners held in appalling conditions
The transfer of political prisoner Saeed Saleki to Dezfool Prison has brought the attention of human rights activists to the prison’s dire conditions.