Iran’s judiciary says a jailed Iranian-British woman has officially been charged because of her links to the opposition, not for attending a volleyball match. ISNA news agency quoted on November 18 a statement by the Tehran’s prosecutor’s office as saying Ghoncheh Ghavami was active in opposition protests abroad. It also said Ghavami was in […]
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Ex-Prosecutor ‘Disbarred Over Iran Protester Deaths’
Iranian media report that the country’s supreme court has disbarred a former chief prosecutor of Tehran over his role in the death of at least three jailed antigovernment protesters in 2009. Saeed Mortazavi, an ally of former hard-line conservative President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, was also suspended from public office for five years, reports said on […]
MP slams steady rejection of Rohani’s proposed ministers
Iranian MP Ali Motahari criticized the general resistance to President Rohani’s choices for education minister, saying Parliament cannot dictate the appointment of ministers. In an interview with the Etemad daily on Sunday November 16, Motahari said parliamentarians today want to choose the minister of education, even though the legal procedure is that the administration […]
Viber, Instagram sites to be “cleansed” instead of blocked
After reports by the Iranian administration that the Viber and Instagram websites will not be blocked, despite a push by Iranian hardliners, a member of the Working Group to Determine Criminal Content in Cyber Space has been quoted as saying that the content of these social networking sites will be “cleansed.” ISNA reports that […]
Tehran Hosts Funeral For Popular Iranian Singer
The funeral of Iranian pop star Morteza Pashaei brought thousands of mourners into the streets of Tehran on November 16. Photographs and videos of Pashaei’s funeral showed large crowds of fans crying and holding his portrait while the coffin, draped with the Iranian flag, was carried from the capital’s Vahdat Hall venue toward a […]
By Interference of Security Institutions, a Gonabadi Dervish Was Dismissed from his Job
A Gonabadi Dervish, from Fars province was expelled from Kavar’s Pasargad iron foundry.According to Majzooban Noor, Mr. Salim Pourfarjam, a resident of Kavar county in Fars province who has worked for years at the Kavar’s Pasargad iron foundry, after receiving repeatedly summons from security agencies for interrogation, was fired and removed from work by […]
Dervishes; Serious Threats to Alborz Province
Revolutionary Guard Commander of Alborz province described dervishes as serious threats to security of Alborz province.According to Majzooban Noor, Ali Ostad Hosseini, the Commander of the Imam Hassan Mojtaba Unit (Alborz province) in an interview with a news site, with emphasize on Dervishes, Baha’i s and Satanists who were considered as serious threats to […]
Summons of a Dervish to Gonabad Revolutionary Court for Ambiguous Charge
General and Revolutionary Courts in the city of Gonabad summoned a Gonabadi Dervish to the its first branch on vague charges of “illegal propaganda”.According to Majzooban Noor, Mr. Salman Hosseini Baidokhti had also been previously summoned to the security agencies by unknown persons via telephone. In court summons is not clear what is the […]
JOINT LETTER TO MEMBER STATES OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
To: Member States of the UN General Assembly Your Excellency; We, the undersigned human rights and civil society organizations, write to urge your government to vote in favor of Resolution A/RES/69/L on the promotion and protection of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This vote will take place during the 69th session […]
Iranian pop star Morteza Pashaei dies of cancer
Pashaei, with millions of Persian-speaking fans across the world, passed away in Bahman Hospital on Friday. The 30-year-old had been suffering from stomach cancer for several months. On Tuesday, he was taken out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital after his chemotherapy for the aggressive cancer failed him. The graphic design […]