The court session of Saeid Shirzad was conducted, while his lawyer could not attend the session, because he was not informed. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Saeid Shirzad, children’s rights activist, was transferred to branch number 15 of the revolutionary court, early last week, without any notice and […]
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Visual Reports and Words of Mostafa Daneshjou after the End of Conviction and Freedom/Video + Photos
Yesterday evening on Monday, 28th of Ordibehesht 1394 (19 May, 2015), Mostafa Daneshjou, the lawyer and rights activist of Gonabadi Dervishes, who was jailed for more than four years in jails of city Sari and Evin prison in Tehran, was released. Mr. Daneshjou in a short speech stated: “the years of prison have passed, […]
Mostafa Daneshjou Freed after Sentence Served
A couple hours ago, Mostafa Daneshjou, the lawyer and rights activist of Gonabadi Dervishes, imprisoned for more than four years in jails of city Sari and Evin prison in Tehran, has been released. Majzooban Noor reports that his freedom has come into enforcement in the Shohada e Tajrish hospital, because he was hospitalized due […]
IOPHRI Protest in London in Support of Narges Mohammadi and Religious Minorities
Yesterday, the Members of International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights in Iran gathered in Trafalgar Square, London to demand the freedom of all political prisoners in Iran, and to stop the persecution of religious minorities in Iran. This action was in response to the recent increased pressure by the extremist Iranian regime against all […]
Young Activist Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Facebook Postings and Peaceful Protest
A young civil activist who has been held at Evin Prison since October 2014 has been sentenced to seven years in prison at her interrogator’s urging, a source close to the case told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, for her Facebook postings and her participation in peaceful gatherings. Atena Daemi, 27, […]
UN rights report based on false, fabricated information: Iran
Iran has denounced as unsubstantiated and false a recent report by the United Nations special rapporteurs about the alleged increase of executions in the country.In a statement released on Sunday, Iranian Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights rejected the report as being founded upon “incorrect information and fabricated sources,” adding that no correspondence has […]
Iranian state media chiefs try to escape EU sanctions by denying role in human rights abuses
Lawyers representing two of the most senior figures in Iran´s official media have argued that their clients bear no responsibility for the broadcast of forced confessions on state television. Mohammad Sarafraz, the head of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), and Hamid Reza Emadi, the head of news for Press TV, an English language […]
More workers fired from Ahwaz train project as strike continues
After 21 one days on strike, 600 workers of Ahwaz city train construction project are still refusing to work, and management has fired 60 of the non-local workers from the tunnel-boring section.Six days ago, the company terminated another 60 of the tunnel-boring operators, and on Sunday May 17, workers from other sections of the […]
Parliament to investigate unregulated detention centres
Iranian Parliament has announced plans to conduct an inquiry into the Prison Organization, its rehabilitation efforts and detention centres.The head of Parliament’s Judiciary and Legal Commission told Tasnim on Sunday May 17 that the inquiry and investigation will look at “the conditions in prisons, the facilities and services that have to be offered, as […]
Regime in Iran doesn’t stop its persecutions
Collection of papers dealing with the latest attacks by the regime in Iran against Sufis. Dervishes threatened to interrupt treatment and be returned to prison According to the oral order of the deputy prosecutor, the prison authorities of Evin by dispatching the guards of the jail, threatened the imprisoned dervishes admitted in the Shohada […]