Four Gonabadi dervishes have been arrested yesterday on 19 Esfand 1393 ( March, 10, 2014) in Kawar, a city in Fars province.According to Majzooban Noor, yesterday at noon, four Gonabadi dervishes named Davoud Nasiri, Jafar Ahmadi, Murteza Kangarlou and Masoud Ahmadi have been arrested in the city of Kavar and are now held in […]
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Mostafa Danshjou Sent to Prison Clinic due to Respiratory Attack
A few days ago, Mostafa Daneshjou, in the middle of last night, due to the respiratory attack was sent to the clinic of the prison.Based on the report by Majzooban Noor, Mostafa Daneshjou, the Gonabadi Dervish lawyer and human rights activist, who suffers from the severe asthma and cardiac arrhythmias due to the respiratory […]
Iranian musicians band together against concert meddling
The Iranian music community has launched a campaign, calling on all musicians and music lovers to stand up against the cancellation of concerts and recent restrictions imposed on all forms of music activities. ISKA News reported on a meeting of famous Iranian musicians including Shahram Nazeri, Hooshang Kamkar, Alireza Ghorbani and Salar Aghili. The […]
Dutch MPs Call for Freedom of Human Rights Activists in Iran
“Harry Van Bommel” and “Kees Van der Staaij” foreign affairs spokesmen of socialist and Christian Reformist parties of Dutch Parliament in occasion of the fifth anniversary of the arrests in 2nd March, demanded the release of imprisoned human rights defenders, including Seyed Mehdi Khodaei, Nasoor Naghipoor, Mohammad Hossein Yousefpoor Seifi, Navid Khanjani and Eighan […]
We Won’t Be Silenced: Women’s Demands in Three Episodes
What does March 8 mean for Iranian women? What is their share of the decades of struggle by women’s rights activists for equality? What are the problems and demands of those who live in large and small cities, in villages and more closed communities? From the rights of child custody, divorce and marriage to […]
Several Detainees of Erfane Halghe Have Been Identified
The identities of several other detainees from the 25 February 2015 incident – in which security forces and police crushed the Erfane Halgheh (Interuniversalism Mysticism) followers’ protest in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Court – have been revealed. According to the report of HRANA quoting from the Human Rights Reporters’ Committee; Sajjad Kazemi, Hussein […]
Secretary-General’s March 2015 report on human rights in Iran
Report of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council in March 2015. Read the Report *******International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran – In his interim report on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran […]
FIFA chief criticizes Iran for barring women from sports matches
The head of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, has spoken out against banning women from sports stadiums, urging Iran to end the prohibition of women from entering sports venues. In FIFA’s weekly magazine, Blatter says that when he travelled to Iran in November 2013, he encountered the ban on the presence of women in sports stadiums. […]
Court of Kavar Forms a New File for Salehedin Moradi
The family of Salehedin Moradi, a rights activist of Gonabadi Dervishes, was told by the prosecutor of city Kavar that the arrest sentence of the mentioned dervish in detention center of Information Office so – called No. 100 has been ordered and conducted by this judicial Institution. This official figure mentioned that the charge […]
On the Occasion of Death Anniversary of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh
“There is no better way to govern Iran than democracy and social justice!”Mohammad Mossadegh Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh was born on May 19, 1882. His father, Hedayat Ashtiani, was the Finance Minister under Naser-oddin Shah Qajar, and his mother was a granddaughter of the Crown Prince Abbas Mirza Qajar. After the Constitutional Revolution of 1906, Mohammad […]