President Rohani expressed serious concern regarding incidents of acid throwing in Isfahan, ordering the ministries of the interior, intelligence and justice to identify the perpetrators and keep citizens safe. IRNA reports that a cabinet meeting on Thursday October 23 culminated with an announcement of the president’s mission for the three ministries. Massoumeh […]
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Hundreds Of Iranians Protest Acid Attacks
Large crowds numbering in the hundreds have demonstrated in Tehran and Isfahan against several recent acid attacks on women that apparently occurred because they were not properly veiled. Hundreds gathered in front of the parliament building in Tehran on October 22, while eyewitnesses said hundreds came to the Justice Ministry building in Isfahan, the […]
Sotoudeh: Acid Attacks on Women Show “Plan to Promote Virtue” Must Stop
Following a spate of violent attacks on women in Iran, in which unidentified perpetrators have thrown acid in the faces of women in the city of Isfahan for their alleged improper hijab (the Islamic dress code for women), prominent human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that […]
Thousands Of Iranians Protest Acid Attacks
Thousands of Iranians have demonstrated in Tehran and Isfahan against several recent acid attacks against women accused of not being “properly veiled.” Hundreds gathered in front of the parliament building in Tehran, while eyewitnesses said a few thousand came to the Justice Ministry building in Isfahan, the central-western city where the acid attacks took […]
EU Representative: People Have Lost Hope In Rouhani’s Promises
Rooz talked with EU representative Marietje Schaake who recently visited Iran and participated in the award-giving ceremony for Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotudeh. Ms. Schaake said that if the nuclear talks currently underway between Iran and the P5+1 did not result in “an accepted settlement” of the issue, then a serious crisis would […]
Head Of Iran’s Top Clerical Body Dies
The chairman of one of the most powerful institutions in Iran, the Assembly of Experts, has died. Iranian media reported on October 21 that Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani, 83, died of heart failure. He had fallen into a coma in June following a heart attack. President Hassan Rohani announced two days of mourning for Kani, a […]
Sotoudeh Stages Sit-in to Protest Ban on Her Legal Practice
Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh began a sit-in on October 21, 2014, at the Iranian Bar Association in Tehran to protest a ruling that puts a three-year ban on her legal practice, and in protest against the general state of legal representation in Iran. One day before starting the sit-in, in an interview with […]
This week in human rights in Iran (2)
Prisoners’ Rights Journalist Bahman Ahmadi Amooe, who was sentenced to five years and four months for acting against national security, was released from Evin prison on October 4. Jila Bani Yaghoub, his wife and a former imprisoned journalist told the BBC that he was held for an extra two and half days before his […]
Worsening Lung Disease, Mostafa Daneshjou Lost Consciousness
Mostafa Daneshjou, the jailed lawyer of Gonabadi Dervishes, last morning ,Monday, 28th of Mehr 1393 (October 28, 2014) due to the harsh hypothyroid lungs and heart arrhythmia lost his consciousness and was taken to Evin prison infirmary for a few hours and then returned again to ward 8.According to Majzooban Noor, The mentioned Dervish […]
Intelligence Office Summons a Dervish from Baidokht due to Participant in Dervishes Protest Gathering in front of Tehran Prosecutor
The prohibition of travel for Gonabadi Dervish residents of Baidokht to Tehran, frequent summons of Dervishes to the security police via SMS and phone in different cities and also chasing some scholars and influential Dervishes and keeping them under surveillance are absolutely such forms of intimidation and pressure which impose on the followers of […]