Nine of jailed rights activists of Gonabadi Dervishes in prisons of Evin of Tehran and Nezam in Shiraz, in an open statement mentioned their goals and objectives of the collective hunger strike.The vocal and collective hunger strike on September 9, commenced when the officials of the prison intensified extra restrictions on Dervishes again.Although the […]
Category: Sufi news
Booing Islam in Schools
The new document approved by Iran’s Supreme Council on Education is a clear example of what president Hassan Rouhani has called “booing Islam.” Rouhani has rightly said that those who push young women into police vans, who create walls to separate men from women, and who wish to filter everybody in society as a […]
Former editor released after five-year sentence
Iranian political prisoner Mohammad Davari was released on Monday September 8 from Ward 350 of Evin Prison at the end of his five-year prison sentence. The Kaleme opposition website reports that Davari was supposed to be released today, Tuesday September 9, but was instead released on Monday night. Davari was the editor in chief […]
Arash Sadeghi arrested in Tehran
Arash Sadeghi political activist and former political prisoner was arrested by security forces.According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), on the evening of Saturday, 6th September political activist Arash Sadeghi was arrested by security forces in his office located in Azerbaijan Street and was taken to an unknown location. One […]
Minister says ISIS not recruiting in Iran
Iran’s Minister of the Interior said on Monday September 8 that ISIS forces in Iraq have possible plans to “attack Iran” but he added that there have been no cases of ISIS attempting to recruit in Iran. According to ISNA, when asked about the movements of ISIS, Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said on the […]
Case of cholera confirmed in Tehran
Iranian health officials say they have identified a case of cholera infection in Tehran. The announcement indicates that the infected individual is an Afghan national who was sick upon entering Iran. The Mehr News Agency reports that the individual was diagnosed with cholera by doctors and is currently receiving treatment. People who were in […]
Iranian National Front member released from Evin
Hootan Dowlati, a political prisoner in Ward 350 of Evin Prison, was released on Saturday September 6. Kaleme reports that Dowlati, a member of the Iranian National Front political party, has been in jail for the past year and a half without any furloughs. He was arrested in March of 2012 and charged with […]
A cyber activist sentenced to 3 years in prison
Sohail Arabi, a defendant of Cybercrime was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday 3rd September 2014. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Soheil Arabi, cyber activist was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment in total by the Branch 15 of Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided by Judge Salvati with […]
Latest Report on the Condition of the Leaders of the Green Movement ~ Illegal House Arrest Approaches 1300 Days
The following is a summary of the latest report from Kaleme dated Sunday September 1st, 2014 regarding the condition of the Leaders of the Green Movement Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, now under illegal house arrest at their residence on Akhtar Street since February 2011. – More than a year following the election promises […]
A Post Nobody Wants to Fill
In late May of this year news reports confirmed that the political deputy minister of Iran’s Ministry of Interior Kazem Mirvalad had resigned from his post. But with the passage of over three months now nobody has been announced to fill the post. Mirvalad was member of presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi’s election headquarters in […]