According to the Iran Human Rights’ (IHR) annual report on the death penalty in Iran, which will be published tomorrow, at least 328 people were executed for drug-related charges in 2013. The United Nations’ Office for Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) has been cooperating with the Iranian authorities in combating drug trafficking. IHR urges the […]
Category: Sufi news
Paper Close to Revolutionary Guards Doctors Ashton Photo to Erase Image of Torture Victim’s Mother
Almost immediately after EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton met with a group of activists in Tehran, Iranian authorities unleashed a barrage of angry remarks and insults about her visit. Ali Larijani, the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, said during an open session of the Parliament today that Ashton’s “act was very ugly,” and […]
Officials Do Not Fear Improper Meeting of ‘Seditionists’
Twenty Iranian lawmakers signed a petition demanding that the country’s intelligence chief explain the meeting that EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton had with two Iranian human rights activists at the Austrian ambassador’s residence in Tehran when she was in Tehran last week. The Majlis’s national security committee issued a statement and others also […]
Jailed Dervishes Continue Hunger Strike
Iranian dervishes imprisoned in Evin, Rejaishahr, Nezam Shiraz and Central Bandar Abbas Prisons continue to refuse food to protest the authorities’ failure to provide them with adequate medical treatment. The Majzooban-e Noor website reports that the dervishes on hunger strike are refusing to go to visiting halls and since last week and have not […]
Tehran Regime Targets Women in War on Sufis and Other Dissidents
On Saturday, March 8, members of the Gonabadi-Nimatullahi Sufi order, the most powerful Muslim contemplative body in Iran, assembled with supporters of other political prisoners in Tehran, for a peaceful protest against repression by the country’s clerical regime. Participants in the demonstration, held at the Tehran Prosecutor’s Office, totaled some 2,000 people. The Sufis […]
Amnesty International: Joint letter to Member States of the Human Rights Council
A joint open letter that Amnesty International sent yesterday to the Member States of the Human Rights Council. To: Member States of the Human Rights CouncilYour Excellency,We, the undersigned human rights and civil society groups, are writing to urge your government to support the resolution to renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on […]
Political Prisoners Refused to Visit the Families in Solidarity with Dervishes
A group of political prisoners in ward 350 of Evin prison refused to visit their families. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), some of the prisoners of ward 350 of Evin prison refused to go to visit hall, in protest to medical negligence of political prisoners and forcing them […]
Transfer of Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad to Political-Security Section
Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, Gonabadi Dervish and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website, was transferred to section 12 known as Ershad ward after spending one week in the quarantine section and addicts’ ward of Bandar Abbas’s Central Prison.According to reports by Majzooban Noor, Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad who appeared in his charges hearing on […]
Rouhani has not increased freedoms in Iran, U.N. chief says
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has failed to fulfil campaign promises to allow greater freedom of expression and there has been a sharp rise in executions since his elecrtion, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday. Rouhani, who won a landslide in June, led Iran to an initial nuclear deal with world powers. But, perhaps […]
Reporters Without Borders Names ‘Enemies Of Internet’
The media freedom organization Reporters Without Borders has released its annual list of ” Enemies of the Internet.” The report was issued on March 12 to coincide with World Day Against Cyber Censorship and seeks to draw attention to “government units and agencies that implement online censorship and surveillance.” Antoine Hery, the head […]