Recently retired former spokesperson of Iran Teachers Union, Mahmoud Beheshti, who is currently out on 150 Million Tomans bail announced: “Yesterday Judge Salavati (head of Tehran Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court) handed down my sentence as follows: Four years imprisonment on charges of assembly and collusion against national security, one year on charges […]
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Canada freezes trade with Iran over nuclear program, human rights
Canada will freeze all remaining trade with Iran to protest the Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and its human rights record, Foreign Minister John Baird said on Wednesday. Canada, which has had increasingly poor relations with Iran for more than a decade, had already imposed a series of trade sanctions. In 2012, bilateral trade was worth […]
Prisoner resumes hunger strike over election
Mehdi Khazali, the Iranian political prisoner who had ended his hunger strike following the announcement that Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani has registered as a presidential candidate, has resumed his hunger strike. The Neday-e Sabz Azadi website reports that Khazali is once again refusing food after the Guardian Council disqualified the moderate cleric Ayatollah Rafsanjani from […]
Iranian minister warns against foreign journalists
Mohammad Hosseiny, the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, has called for more serious supervision by security and supervisory bodies over the entry of foreign reporters for coverage of the presidential election. Hosseiny said in addition to the 120 press bureaus already active in Iran many more applications for press permits have been made […]
Former prosecutor accused in deaths calls himself “victim”
Saeed Mortazavi, the chief suspect in the case of detainee deaths at Kahrizak Prison, has once again expressed discontent with the proceedings brought against him and maintained that he is the victim of political machinations. The former Tehran Prosecutor says the court dealing with his case lacks competence to handle the file, adding that […]
Iranian elected president of international rights body
Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Karim Lahiji has been elected president of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), succeeding Souhayr Belhassen, who served as FIDH chief for six years. The report on the FIDH website indicates that Lahiji, who previously served as FIDH vice president and president of the League of Defence […]
Student Activist Forcefully Arrested to Serve Prison Sentence
Security forces stormed the home of Ashkan Zahabian, a former Mashhad University student and member of the Daftar Tahkim Vahdat Student Organization General Council, arrested him, and transferred him to Babol’s Mati Kola Prison on May 27, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. According to the source, the security […]
Transfer of 4 Gonabadi Dervishes to Solitary Confinement in AdelAbad Prison
Four Gonabadi Dervishes, residents of Kavar town in Fars province who were arrested by security forces near one month ago, yesterday were moved to the quarantine section of Adel Abad prison and currently are in solitary confinement in the basement of this prison.According to Majzooban Noor, on 8 Khordad 1392 (May 29, 2013) four […]
UN experts concerned at barring of women presidential candidates and freedom restrictions
GENEVA (29 May 2013) – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts today warned that unreasonable limitations placed on the right of Iranian citizens to stand for Presidential office, discrimination against women candidates for elections and ongoing restrictions on freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly, constitute a serious violations of rights […]
Critical Condition of Amir Eslami in Ward 350/ No Medical Treatment without the Permission of Intelligence Ministry
Gonabadi Dervish lawyer, Amir Eslami deprived of medical leave despite his dire health conditions.According to Majzooban Noor, although the physicians of Evin prison infirmary have ordered emergency transfer and special medical care for Amir Eslami who is a heart patient but the authorities have continually denied his urgent need for treatment outside prison despite […]