Mostafa Daneshjou, detained Gonabadi dervishes’s lawyer after hours of struggling, was hospitalized yesterday morning.
Category: Sufi news
Iran’s rial tumbles once again
The Iranian currency has plunged against the dollar once more, reaching 33,500 rials to the dollar. That constitutes a fall of 3,000 rials since last Monday.
Official’s jailed daughter slams prisons in letter
Faezeh Hashemi, the jailed daughter of the head of Iran’s Expediency Council, has published a letter criticizing the management of the country’s prisons, writing: “They cannot take away the tools of the political prisoner; if their thoughts and their pens could be controlled, Mohammadreza Pahlavi [Iran’s last monarch] would […]
Prosecutor announces probable cause of blogger’s death
The Tehran Prosecutor said on Monday December 24: “The most probable cause of the jailed blogger Sattar Beheshti’s death, is a blow, or blows together with mental stress.”
Top Iranian university among new sanction targets
The EU has imposed sanctions on Iran’s top institution of technology, Sanati Sharif University in Tehran.
A Brief Report on Human Rights Situation in Iran in Azar 1391 [November- December 2012]
Shirin Ebadi, Human Rights Defender and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, in continuation of her monthly reports, has reviewed the human rights situation in Iran in Azar 1391 [November- December 2012].
Iran fighting ‘smart economic war’: Ahmadinejad
Iran is engaged in a “smart economic war” with Western powers whose sanctions against its nuclear programme are hurting some Iranians, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday.
Tougher EU sanctions against Iran come into force
Rigorous new sanctions against Iran’s banking, shipping and industrial sectors took effect on Saturday, as part of the European Union’s effort to force Tehran to scale back its nuclear program.
Seyed Ahmadreza Ahmadipour, Political Prisoner, Transferred to Hospital
Political Prisoner Seyed Ahmadreza Ahmadipour, due to deteriorating health condition was transferred to Beheshti Hospital in Qom.
Jailed lawyer allowed to attend mother’s burial
Jailed Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was permitted by Iranian prison authorities to attend the burial of her mother.