According to reports, political prisoner Reza Jushan was transferred to a solitary cell while in critical condition in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj.
Category: Sufi news
Iran continues to target critical journalists
New York, August 10, 2011–The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about a rise in the number of imprisoned journalists in Iran and the continuing deterioration of their health. In recent days, Iranian authorities increased a prominent journalist’s prison term by two years and arrested a critical journalist who had just finished serving a […]
Photos: Bam Citadel, 8 Years After Quake
Photos by Hamid Sadeghi, Mehr News Agency Arg-e Bam (Bam citadel) was the largest adobe building in the world, located in Bam, a city in the Kerman Province of southeastern Iran. It is listed by UNESCO as part of the World Heritage Site “Bam and its Cultural Landscape.”
Ramadan’s Poems from Moulana Jalal e Din
Ramadan came, but Bairam is with us.The lock came, but the key is with us.
Iran names street after Rachel Corrie
Iran has named a street in central Tehran after Rachel Corrie, an American pro-Palestinian activist who was killed in 2003. Photograph: Denny Sternstein/AP
UK tells Iran happy to talk human rights after riot criticism
By Robin PomeroyTEHRAN (Reuters) – Britain told Iran on Thursday it was happy to discuss its handling of street unrest after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused its police of “savage” aggression against demonstrators.
Another Iranian political prisoner in critical condition
Iranian political prisoner Ghassem Sholeh Saadi is in critically poor health and is being denied medical care, opposition media report.
Martial Arts Expert Leaves Iran Rather Than Train Basij
Iranian martial arts expert Ahmad Fouladizadeh says he has left the country rather than agree to train Basij volunteer paramilitaries and plainclothes police how to neutralize participants in street protests, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports.
Hard-Line Iranian Media Demonize Western ‘Cultural Threat’
The hard-line daily newspapers “Kayhan” and “Resalat” have called for a new round of “media purification” in Iran, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports.
Prison Visit With Sotoudeh Ends In Detention And Physical Abuse of Family
Reza Khandan, husband of imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, talked to International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about his five-hour detention along with his two children and his sister-in-law.