The complaint by workers objecting to the minimum wage recently announced by the Ministry of Labour has been submitted to the Supreme Court of Administration. Workers have claimed that the minimum wage is supposed to rise in accordance with the inflation rate, as laid out in the Labour Ministry’s administrative provisions, but while the […]
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No medical furlough and parole for Dr. Rahman Ghahareman Pour
Tehran prosecutor and intelligence forces don’t allow Dr. Rahman Ghahreman Pour the imprisoned journalist come on medical furlough or parole. According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), although Dr. Rahman Ghreman Pour, the editor of Diplomatic Hamshahry monthly and professor of International relations is suffering from back arthritis and has hard […]
Accused of Waging “Soft War,” Christian Pastor Beaten in Iran’s Evin Prison
Christian pastor Saeed Abedini was conducting a routine visit to the non-profit orphanage his family helped to start in Rasht when Iranian security forces arrested him and seized his passport in July 2012. Five months later, Iranian courts convicted him of “undermining national security,” accusing him and other Christian converts of waging a “soft […]
Hanover, Paris, Stockholm, Granada – Freedom for Nasrin and Dervishes
Last Sunday evening, 21April, members of the International Organization to Preserve Human Rights in Iran met at the main station in Hanover, playing music on a Persian frame drum Daf along with violin and loudly demanded the release of Nasrin Sotoudeh and the dervishes internet personnel and laywers, imprisoned in Evin prison in Tehran, […]
Unpaid Lorestan workers demand action from governor
Workers at the Dorood Farsit Company in Lorestan Province staged a sit-in across from the governor’s office, demanding official action to address their demands. ILNA reports that the protesters said they were forced to take their issues to government officials after months of delayed wages and refusals by the company’s CEO and managers to […]
Food price hikes raise concerns in Iran
Iranian media warn of public backlash over latest food price hikes ahead of election Iranian newspapers warn that a new wave of price hikes could stir greater discontent less than two months before presidential elections. The press commentaries also suggest disputes within Iran’s ruling system over how to cope with an economy battered by […]
Weekly report on Human Right Violation in Iran (21/04/2013)
Responces to Human Rights Abuses in Iran 1. Ana Gomes, one of European Parliament’s representatives, issued an official letter to the Iranian ambassadors, such as Mahmood Barimani in the regime’s embassy in Brussels, and Hasan Gharibi at the regime’s embassy in Lisbon, Portugal, requesting them to take immediate action regarding the situations of the Dervishes […]
Latest talks scheduled between Iran, IAEA
The next round of talks between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency will take place on May 21 in Vienna, Reuters reports. The last two rounds of negotiations between Iran and the agency were carried out in Tehran and failed to yield any concrete results. Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s representative to the IAEA, […]
Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad Was Visited by His Family in Bandar Abbas’s Central Prison
The family of Gonabadi Dervish, Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, succeeded to visit with him.According to Majzooban Noor, his family had a short visit with him in Bandar Abbas’s central Prison this afternoon on 1 Ordibehesht 1392 ( April 21, 2013).The family of this Dervish right activist and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website, […]
Unawareness of Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad’s Situation/Gathering of Gonabadi Dervishes outside the Intelligence Office in Bandar Abbas
Due to unawareness of the conditions that, Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad is being kept in, the Gonabadi Dervishes residing in the city of Bandar Abbas, assembled again in front of Hormozgan Province’s Intelligence office today on 1 Ordibehesht 1392 ( April 21, 2013).According to Majzooban Noor, the family of Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad along with more […]