The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is due to hold talks today in Tehran with senior officials on the country’s controversial nuclear program.
Category: Sufi news
Student Activist Mohamad Ghafarian Sentenced to 3 1/2 Years In Prison And 70 Lashes
A three and half years imprisonment and seventy lashes sentence was upheld for electrical engineering student at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mohamad Ghaffarian.
Trial of Ahwazi Arabs raises concern
Amnesty International reports that six members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority will go on trial on May 20 amid fears that they will not receive a fair trial and may face the death penalty for the charge of “enmity against God.”
What do imprisoned mothers in Iran fear the most? ‘Being forgotten’
(WNN) Tehran, IRAN: Built in 1971 Evin prison, in Iran’s capital city of Tehran, is a place where incarceration for prisoners brings with it depression, frustration and isolation. Prisoners who are mothers often have a secret, and haunting, fear of ‘being forgotten’ by the children they have left behind at home.
Iran diplomacy gathers pace with surprise IAEA visit
By Simon Sturdee VIENNA (AFP)— The head of the UN atomic agency will visit Iran Monday, the IAEA said in a surprise announcement that raised hopes of a deal on closer cooperation just days ahead of major talks with world powers.
Activist taken to Zanjan Prison
Jailed Iranian human rights activist Nargess Mohammadi has been transferred to Zanjan Prison. The Melli-Mazhabi website reports that Mohammadi, the deputy head of the Centre for Human Rights Defenders of Iran, was transferred to Zanjan Prison from the Evin Prison infirmary in Tehran.
Imprisoned Blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki In Serious Danger Of Losing His Kidneys
According to reports by Kalameh, on Monday May 14th, incarcerated blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki was transferred to Hasheminejad hospital in dire health.
End Education Apartheid
A student group active in defending the rights of those students who are denied higher education has criticized the policies of Iran’s minister of science research and technology Kamran Daneshjoo and declared that Ahmadinejad’s administration is pursuing a second cultural revolution by practicing “educational apartheid.”
Iran’s Coming “Halal” Intranet
For years, the Iranian government has been threatening to pull the plug on the world wide web, sealing the nation and its people off from the rest of the Internet. Officially, Tehran says it wants to create a “halal” Internet, or one free from outside “impurities” or temptations.
Japan bank freezes Iran accounts after court order
By Harumi Ozawa TOKYO (AFP)— A Japanese bank has halted transactions by the Iranian government after a US court ordered a $2.6 billion asset freeze over the 1983 bombing of US barracks in Beirut, a bank spokesman said on Thursday.