Lawyers Comment on Shinabad Incident Iranian news agencies reported that on Friday December 28th Saria Rasoolzadeh, another victim of the fire at a girls school died of burn wounds, following the earlier death of schoolgirl Siran Yeganeh. Last week, a fire broke out in the Shinabad village near the Kurdish-populated […]
Category: Sufi news
Three Iranians receive human rights grant
Three Iranians are among those awarded Hellman/Hammett grants by Human Rights Watch for 2012.
Workers speak out against continued wage delays
More than 500 workers at the Safa Pipe factory have begun their fourth round of protests against the delayed payment of wages and other grievances.
Trail of Gonabadi Dervishes from Shiraz, Was Held
Yesterday morning on 11th Dey 1391 (Dec 31, 2012), four Gonabadi dervishes appeared in Branch 2 of Shiraz’s Revolutionary Court to investigate their charges.
Treatment of Political Prisoner, Mostafa Daneshjou Was Left Unfinished By An Order From Judge Salavati
Gonabad dervish’s lawyer and prisoner of conscience, Mr. Mostafa Daneshjou who had been admitted for medical treatment at Tehran’s Milad Hospital, was sent back to Evin prison according to the direct order by Judge Salavati.
Faezeh Hashemi placed in solitary
Faezeh Hashemi, the jailed daughter of Iran’s Expediency Council chief, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been sentenced to three weeks in solitary confinement and barred from any visits for “insulting the leader” and “disrupting prison order.”
A Prayer for the New Year
A Prayer for the New Year The new year, like a new born child, is placed in our hands as the old year passes away. The days and weeks to come are God’s gift; they carry God’s blessing. As a blessing we welcome them. Our hope for the year ending is that all […]
News of emergency landing comes in two versions
Iranian authorities say a U.S. plane made an emergency landing at Ahwaz Airport in southwestern Iran after experiencing technical difficulties.
Abolfazl Ghadyani: Let us name Dey 9th, 1388 as “The Day of Religious Despotism and Tyranny”!
GhadyaniIn a statement published from Evin prison’s ward 350 on the eve of December 30th, Abolfazl Ghadyani, veteran political activist and senior member the Mujahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization [reformist group not to be confused with the MKO] blasts the government organized demonstrations held on December 30th, 2009 […]
Opposition leaders denied attending funeral of Rahnavard’s father
Zahra Rahnavard was allowed 15 minutes away from her house arrest on Saturday December 29 to visit her father Sadegh Kazemi, who had just passed away at a hospital in Tehran.