Hashemi Rafsanjani’s activist daughter Faezeh told Rooz that she did not view yesterday’s events in the Majlis unrelated to next year’s parliamentary elections. According to her, MPs who know that they don’t have the public vote want to get votes through other means. She believes that the verbal and physical attack of Ali Motahari […]
Category: Sufi news
In Memory of His Holliness Sultan Ali Shah Gonabadi
Hazrat Hajj Sultan Mohammad Gonabadi Sultan Ali ShahRenewer of the Nimatullahi Order in Iran Sufism is the spiritual reality of Islam, even if it was not known as “Sufism” at the inception of Islam. Phenomenologically speaking, it proves to be the essence of Islam, which gives life to it, like the soul gives life […]
This week in human rights in Iran (December 18-January 8)
Freedom of Religion On December 18, IranWire published the transcript of interviews that a Baha’i student conducted with three members of the Majlis. Raha Bushehri, a third-year high school student aware that despite excellent grades, his being Baha’i means that it will be impossible for him to continue his education, contacted the three representatives […]
Judicial Authorities Reject Parole Requests of 70 Political Prisoners
Judicial authorities rejected the request of seventy political and security prisoners, imprisoned in Evin prison to be released earlier. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), a large number of prisoners in Evin prison, including 13 prisoners of ward 350, were imparted that their conditional release requests have been rejected. […]
UN Body Warns Governments about Health Hazards of Jamming Signals
A new United Nations resolution warning member states about their responsibility to protect the health of their citizens against electromagnetic waves, including satellite jamming signals, was approved at the UN’s Telecommunication Union (ITU)’s Plenipotentiary Conference which took place between October 20 and November 7, 2014, in Busan, South Korea (Resolution 176, pg. 277). The […]
MP complains of thwarted speech about house arrests
Two days after Parliament fell into turmoil when Tehran representative Ali Motahari took the stand to speak out against house arrests, Motahari has issued a statement condemning his treatment in Parliament. This comes as a number of MPs announced their plan to hold a demonstration against Motahari following this week’s Friday Mass Prayers. ILNA reports […]
Khabar-on-line rebuked for blog posting about corruption
The Iranian judiciary announced that the Khabar-on-line website has been charged with provoking public anxiety by publishing an article about corruption in the Revolutionary Guards Corps. The Deputy Prosecutor General told the Fars News Agency on January 13 that the Cyber Crimes Supervisory Committee has acted very leniently by merely giving a warning to […]
Iran denounces Charlie Hebdo’s latest depiction of Prophet
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has spoken out against the cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad on the latest cover of Charlie Hebdo, declaring that in the West there is abuse of freedom of speech. The Fars News Agency reports that on Wednesday January 14, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said that Iran firmly condemns any terrorist […]
Official Claims of Smart Internet Filtering Overblown, but Efforts to Monitor Users Grow
Despite recent claims by state officials that the government has developed the ability to selectively block “inappropriate and illegal” content and that smart filtering would be installed on the country’s Internet gateways, and their assertion that they have already implemented such smart filtering on social networks such as Instagram, research by the International Campaign […]
Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh on the State of Human Rights in Iran
Nasrin Sotoudeh, the Iranian lawyer and human rights activist, was jailed in Iran from 2010 to 2013 for the charge of “acting against national security”. During her imprisonment, she went on several hunger strikes to force the authorities to accept her legitimate demands. Her second hunger strike, which lasted 49 days, was aimed at lifting […]