According to Jalal Maleki, the spokesman of Iran’s Firefighters Organization, body parts of firefighter Omid Abbasi will be offered to patients in need of transplants. Abbasi died during a mission in north Tehran after saving a girl from a fire in a residential complex.Jalal Maleki told Mehr News that “firefighters received a call informing […]
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I Didn’t See A Need to Summon Those Witnesses,” Says the Kahrizak Judge
The eighth trial session of judges implicated in the Kahrizak Detention Center case was held on Monday, May 13 at Branch 76 of Tehran Penal Court under Judge Siamak Modir Khorasani. As in the previous seven sessions, the court session was held behind closed doors. Saeed Mortazavi, the main suspect charged with “participation in […]
‘Iran’s Lech Walesa’ Says He Left Country After Death Threats
Prominent Iranian leader Mansur Osanlu, who recently fled that country, has told RFE/RL that death threats from inside government security circles drove him out of Iran.Osanlu, who is described by some as “Iran’s Lech Walesa” after the labor leader who helped bring free trade s and, ultimately, democracy to Poland, was speaking by phone […]
“My Sattar Died for Iran”: An Interview with Sattar Beheshti’s Mother
More than six months after the prison death of Sattar Beheshti, a laborer and blogger from Robat Karim (17 miles outside Tehran) who was arrested on November 3, 2012, and died the next day, his mother and sister have not been able to face in court the men who murdered the 35-year-old man under torture […]
The Families of Jailed Hunger Strikers: Our Dear Ones Are Close to Death
The hunger strike of Mehdi Khazali , Kasra Nouri , and Saleh Morady is approaching its 100th day.Up to now all that the families of these prisoners have done, including all appeals to the judicial authorities , to save them, have come to nothing.Moradi’s wife , by referring to her useless meeting with the […]
Deceased Blogger’s Sister Threatened with Death for Challenging Impunity
“Sattar was innocent and he died under torture. The forces entered my mother’s home without a warrant, took him, killed him four days later, and now they tell us to shut up,” Sahar Beheshti, the sister of deceased blogger Sattar Beheshti, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The sister of Sattar […]
Death penalty ‘becoming thing of the past’, says Amnesty
The report highlights an “alarming” rise of executions in Iraq, where numbers almost doubled last year compared to 2011The trend toward abolishing the death penalty continues, despite some countries resuming executions in 2012, Amnesty International says. Executions in India, Japan, Pakistan, and Gambia were disappointing regressions, Amnesty notes. But elsewhere the death penalty was […]
Minister faces further questioning in blogger’s death
After conservative MP Ali Motahari announced that he has not been satisfied with the Interior Minister’s explanations regarding the death of detained blogger Sattar Beheshti, the minister will now face further questioning in Parliament next Tuesday. The Mehr News agency reports that Motahari, who is a member of Parliament’s Culture Commission, said on Saturday […]
Condolence of Majzooban Noor Website for the Death of Dr. Ahmad Sadr Hajj Seyed Javadi
Hou 121 Among all eyes, One is lessBut among all the wise, More than a thousand is less… Dr. Ahmad Sadr Hajj Seyed Javadi, the rare man of the history of Iran’s peoples’ rights died and finally the soil embraced the tired and ailing body of this brave patriot.His divine justice-seeking and high spirit […]
Gonabadi Dervishes, Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nourion on the Verge of Death!
Yesterday 4th Farvardin, 1392( March 24, 2013) imprisoned Gonabadi Dervish in Shiraz’s Adel Abad prison, Kasra Nouri on the sixth day of his dry hunger strike due to extreme weakness collapsed. Jailed Gonabadi Dervishes in Shiraz’s Adel Abad prison, Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nouri after 64 days of hunger strike on liquid diet, have […]