Following the transfer of Mostafa Daneshjou to prison without medical discharge, Hamid-Reza Moradi Sarvestani, another jailed Gonabadi Dervish, one of human rights activists, who was hospitalized, unexpectedly, without the consent of his respective doctors was sent back to Evin prison like Mostafa Danshjou.Hamid-Reza Moradi Sarvenstani who suffers from heart diseases as well as severe […]
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Mostafa Daneshjou Sends Back to Jail without Medical Discharge
Mostafa Daneshjou, the jailed Dervish, lawyer and human rights activist of Gonabadi Dervishes, with the order of prosecutor has been returned to prison, despite poor health and without medical discharge by the respective doctors.According to a report by Majzooban Noor website, Mostafa Daneshjou, the imprisoned dervish and human rights activist of Gonabadi Dervishes, based […]
Security forces block service to remember republics’ first PM
Security forces prevented a special commemoration service planned for the twentieth anniversary of the passing of the Islamic Republic’s first prime minister, Mehdi Bazargan. Mizan Khabar, a website linked to the nationalist-religious group Freedom Front, reports that the gathering entitled “20 years after Bazargan”, which was to take place on January 22 at the […]
Teachers begin strike to protest wages, inadequate budget
Teachers from across Iran have begun a strike in the past two days to protest their wages as well as reports that the education ministry will only get a 14-percent budget increase in the coming year. ILNA reports that teachers in Eslamshahr, Robat Karim, Shahr-e Qods, Karaj, Shahriyar, Shiraz, Shahroud, Saqez, Baneh and Marivan […]
2 political prisoners transferred to Solitary Confinements
There is no news about Afshin Baymany and Arjang Davoodi since Sunday that they were transferred to solitary confinement in Sepah ward. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), on Sunday 18th January, Afshin Baymany and Arjang Davoodi, two political prisoners of Hall 12 in Rajai Shahr prison, in Karaj, […]
2 Women’s Rights Activists Arrested in Tehran
Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Intelligence department has arrested a number of Women’s rights activists on Monday, in Tehran, and has also summoned a number of the activists or has threatened them. It has been said that these are all in order to prevent the protest plans by these activists in connection with the recent Acid […]
An Imprisoned Sufi Transferred to Solitary Confinement
Amir Rajabi, Sufi prisoner in the central prison of Zahedan, since several days ago has been transferred to solitary confinement, because he has refused to shave his mustache and has gone on hunger strike. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Amir Rajabi, a Sufi from Kermanshah, who has been […]
Corruption sentence reduced for former vice president
The Supreme Court has sentenced former vice president, Mohammadreza Rahimi to five years in prison for corruption. IRNA reports that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s vice president initially had been sentenced in court to 15 years in jail in addition to a fine of 2.85 billion toumans, and the matter was appealed to the Supreme Court. The […]
Obama promises no new sanctions on Iran
U.S. President Barack Obama vowed once more that he will veto any effort by Congress to place new sanctions on Iran. In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, Obama said he will veto any new sanctions bill because he believes such a bill would undo the progress they have made so […]
Iran asks UN for help with increasingly arid climate
The head of Iran’s Department of the Environment says forecasts indicate that dry weather and a lack of precipitation in Iran will increase elevenfold by 2050. IRNA reports that Massoumeh Ebtekar urged the Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific at the United Nations Environment Program to assist Iran in devising a mechanism to […]