A video has surfaced that shows former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani clearly blaming Damascus for chemical attacks, despite the Iranian government’s claim that the media had wrongly reported his remarks. The video, posted on the website Bolaghnews.com, shows Rafsanjani speaking last weekend in Savad Kooh in Mazandaran Province. He says, “People are […]
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Ward 350 Political Prisoners: We Are Witnessing The Gradual Death Of One Of Our Cellmates
15 political prisoners incarcerated in Evin Ward 350 have written to Chief Judiciary Ayatollah Amoli Larijani voicing their concernm and warning him about the dire health condition of on-hunger strike political prisoner Hossein Ronaghi Maleki. Hossein Ronaghi was arrested on December 13, 2009, during the unrest that followed the disputed presidential election of 2009. […]
Weekly Report on Human Right Violation in Iran (01/09/2013)
Reactions to the violation of Human Rights in Iran1. On Tuesday 27th August, a group of casualties and the families of those killed in the Iran-Iraq war formed a gathering in front of the parliament in protest against some of the laws for war veterans.2. On Tuesday 27th August, Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian Foreign […]
Persian poet Simin Behbahani gets Janus Pannonius award
Contemporary Persian poet Simin Behbahani received this year’s Janus Pannonius Award in the southern Hungarian city of Pecs on Thursday.The prize set up by Hungarian PEN Club chair Geza Szocs last year comes with a cash purse of 50,000 euros. It recognises poets whose life work has contributed to promoting dialogue between nations and […]
Renewed attacks on the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur
FIDH and its member organization, the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI), express their disappointment at recent statements by Iranian high-level officials regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran’s persistent rejection of the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. FIDH […]
Amnesty International: Seriously ill Iranian blogger must be released from prison immediately
An Iranian prisoner of conscience and blogger on hunger strike to protest his unfair detention must be released immediately and unconditionally to receive treatment as his health deteriorates, Amnesty International said. Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, 28, is serving a 15-year prison sentence for “membership of the [illegal] internet group ‘Iran Proxy’”, “spreading propaganda against the […]
Website lists hardships of Evin’s female political prisoners
Iranian opposition website reports that a majority of female political prisoners in Tehran’s Evin Prison are being denied any furloughs. Kaleme website reports that 17 of the 25 female political prisoners in Evin have never been granted a temporary leave since the beginning of their incarceration. The report adds that these political prisoners are […]
Ahmadinejad administration accused of “illegal” money transfer
Akbar Torkan, the chief aide to President Hassan Rohani, says it was “illegal” for 160 billion rials to be transferred from presidential coffers to the newly established Iranian University, which is linked to former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The announcement indicates that on August 3, the day of Hassan Rohani’s inauguration, the former administration transferred […]
Hundreds call for university president to be fired
Hundreds of students and alumni of Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran have called for the removal of university president Sadreddin Shariati. In a letter addressed to Iran’s new president, Hassan Rohani, the students criticize Shariati’s policies, which they summarize as “gender segregation, the promotion of disciplinary committees, a decline in academic quality, dogmatism, suspensions […]
Beheshti lawyer to fight “involuntary” manslaughter charge
Close to a year after jailed blogger Sattar Beheshti died in custody, the accused in the case has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. The website Tasnim reports that Giti Pourfazel, the Beheshti family’s attorney, announced on Friday August 30 that she had just found out about the charge and is planning to protest the […]