Shortly after an armed raid by security and police forces on Iran Newspaper’s editorial offices today, a journalist present at the scene provided an eyewitness account for the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “Everyone is still covered in white fire extinguisher powder.
Category: Sufi news
Iranian activists condemn military threats against Iran
A group of 110 activists in Iran has issued a statement condemning the military threats against their country.
Euro-MPs urge firms to stop selling Iran censorship tools
The EU parliament urged European companies on Thursday to refrain from selling to technology and services to Iran that could be used by authorities for censorship and surveillance.
EU resolution on Iran, recent breaches of human rights against Minorities and Sufis
insideofiran – Whereas a state-supported defamation campaign against (Shia) Nematullahi Sufis depicting all forms of mysticism as satanic and persecuting Sufi worshippers, is continuing, the most glaring example being the armed attack in Kavar in September 2011, which killed one person and left others seriously injured;
Pro-Reform Newspaper Banned In Iran
The Iranian state news agency IRNA reports that the country’s leading reformist newspaper has been banned for two months for “spreading lies.”
Amir Eslami the Gonabadi Dervishes’s lawyer was sentenced to a bail of 5,000,000,000 Rials
Amir Eslami’s family reported about the bail of 5,000,000,000 Rials for this Gonabadi Dervishes’s Lawyer.
Releasing of two Gonabadi Dervishes in Kavar
Omid Akbari and Mehdi Ghanbari were released on bail yesterday afternoon .
Iranian official’s statement at UN cannot conceal persecution of defence lawyers
Amnesty International – Amnesty International deplores the statement at a UN press conference on 16 November 2011 by Mohammad Javad Larijani, the Secretary General of the Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights, that “[n]o lawyer is in prison because he is a lawyer or he is a defender of human rights.”
Tehran police target internet cafes
The Tehran Police Force has announced its plan to shut down photo studios and internet cafes that “act against social norms and business regulations.”
Critics barred from covering parliamentary news
Reporters who have published critical views of Parliament’s actions are being barred from further access to parliamentary sessions, an Iranian news website reports.