Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is reportedly being prevented from leaving Iran. The Nuremburg International Human Rights Film Festival said on October 2 that Rasoulof had his passport confiscated by the Iranian authorities when he entered Iran on September 19, preventing him from returning to Germany as planned. The filmmaker, who lives and works in […]
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Iran To Consider Resuming Flights To U.S.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has ordered aviation authorities to study the possibility of resuming direct flights between Iran and the United States for the first time in more than three decades. Iranian news agencies on September 30 quoted presidential adviser Akbar Torkan as saying Rohani wanted to study the option of resuming flights in […]
Amnesty International: Six Kurds may face execution soon
The Iranian authorities must urgently halt the execution of six men on death row in Ghezel Hesar Prison near Tehran. Two of them have been transferred to solitary confinement today sparking fears they are at imminent risk of execution Amnesty International said. Hamed Ahmadi and Sedigh Mohammadi are among six Sunni Muslim men from […]
Weekly report on Human Right Violation in Iran (September 2013)
Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Iran 1. In the case of death of Sattar Beheshti, Gity Pourfazel has stated that there is going to be a first-degree murder sentence issued and that she is going to objected to this. In addition she said: the reason for this deliberate first degree murder is because […]
Iran, U.S. Preparing For Highest-Level Contact In Years
The United States and Iran are preparing for what could be their highest-level contact in six years. Officials say Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif is expected to join U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for a meeting on September 26 with their counterparts from Britain, China, France, Germany, and Russia at the United […]
Facebook and Twitter Blocked Again in Iran After Respite
Internet users in Iran lost access Tuesday to Facebook and Twitter, a day after they were surprised to find that they could get on the sites without having to evade a government’s firewall that had blocked direct access to the Web sites for years. Iranian officials said that a technical glitch resulted in the […]
Summoning Of Green Movement Activists To Prison Continues, 3 Activists Were Summoned To Prison
Summoning Of Green Movement Activists To Prison Continues.1- Mehdi Doulati Daraabad Green Movement and online activist Mehdi Doulati Daraabad reported to Ward 350 to start serving his five years imprisonment sentence. Doulati Daraabad was arrested in a raid on his parents home by the Intelligence Ministry’s agents in February 2012 and was taken to […]
On the Occasion of Birthday of our 8th Imam, Hazrat Imam Raza (A.S.)
Here are some sayings of the Imam (pbuh): A person asked Imam Redha (p): “who are the best of the servants?” He replied: “Those who get happy when they perform a good deed & whenever they do a bad and evil work, they ask forgiveness from Allah. And whenever they are given any […]
Weekly report on Human Right Violation in Iran (Sep 2013)
Reactions to the violation of Human Rights in Iran 1. Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been refused medical leave by the prosecutor handling his case. On the 10th September, his father, Ahmad Ronaghi Maleki, requested help from Ahmad Shaheed, who is the United Nation Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, claiming that Hossein’s life […]
Where is Arash Sadeghi? Amid Controversy Fate Of Arash Sadeghi Remains Uncertain
Allameh Tabatabaei university student activist Arash Sadeghi was first arrested July 09, 2009, during the suppression of post-2009 presidential election events. He was released without being charged after 50 days in solitary confinement . Sadeghi was re-arrested December 2009 after the mass street protests of Ashura. He was later released on March 16, 2010. […]