During today’s Gonabadi Dervishes protest, the protesting women were attacked and beaten with batons by security forces, resulting in a number of injuries. The injured women were arrested among the other protesters arrested today and were taken to Evin prison. Gonabadi Dervishes news site, Majzooban Noor reports 250 people were arrested during the last […]
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Protesters beaten, arrested at gathering for jailed dervishes
Islamic Republic security forces beat and arrested protesters at a gathering of Gonabadi Dervishes and the families of jailed Dervishes in front of the Tehran Prosecutor’s Office. The Majzooban-e Noor website reports that more than 80 women and at least 200 men were arrested at the event. Gonabadi Dervishes had announced that they planned […]
Gonabadi Dervishes Were Arrested and Beaten by Security Forces
Up to now, more than 500 Gonabadi Dervishes who are on hunger strike have been arrested by special forces units during a peaceful protest today on on Saturday, Esfand, the 17th (February, the 3rd). The Detained Dervishes were transferred to Police stations No.113 in Tehran’s Bazar where they are being interrogated.According to Majzooban Noor […]
Retired IRGC Commander arrested And Moved To Vakil Abad Prison
Political activist, retired IRGC Commander , former city of Mashshad deputy mayor and television program director, Hossein Farzin, was summoned by the Revolutionary Court, arrested and then moved to Mashad’s Vakil Abad prison for the implementation of his 15 month imprisonment and the 20 lashes sentence. According to the report of Human Rights Activists […]
Iranian activist Mohammad Nurizad attacked and arrested, but not silenced
Journalists and film-maker beaten then detained by security forces as he protested outside intelligence ministry in Tehran Members of Iran’s intelligence services have beaten up and temporarily detained a prominent journalist and film-maker critical of the authorities’ treatment of the opposition. Mohammad Nurizad, 61, was protesting in front of the Iranian intelligence ministry in […]
Amid Calls for Tehran Mayor’s Resignation for Negligence, Two Firefighters Arrested Instead
Iranian citizens and politicians are calling for the Tehran mayor’s resignation in relation to the thwarted rescue efforts in the January 19 Tehran fire that left two women dead after firefighting equipment failed. This week two firefighters who had attempted to rescue the women were taken into custody, though the judicial basis for their arrest […]
Four Christian Converts Arrested in Karaj on New Year’s Eve
Plainclothes officers arrested four Christian converts in a village outside of Tehran on Tuesday, December 31, 2013, a source close to Iran’s Christian converts told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Sara Rahiminejad, Majid Sheidaee, Mostafa Nadri, and George Issaian were violently arrested at the latter’s home in Fardis village of Karaj, […]
Eight Netizens Arrested While Iran Contemplates Unblocking Facebook and Twitter
High-ranking Iranian officials are openly using Facebook and Twitter, but for the general user population in Iran, access to these social networks continues to be blocked. According to a Kerman Province Judiciary statement, the Prosecutor for the General and Revolutionary Courts of Rafsanjan said yesterday that eight individuals have been arrested recently for publishing […]
Qaderi kasanzani Dervishes arrested in Alborz Province
Following the recent attacks of the security forces on “Qaderi kasanzani Dervishes,” about fifteen of them were arrested.According to the report of the Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), last week, plainclothes security officers attacked to a house as it was used as Tekiyeh in Hassan Abad in Karaj. An informed source […]
A 16 years old blogger arrested in Boushehr
Darius Pour Said, chairman of the FETA Police in Boushehr province, announced the arrest of a 16 years old blogger.According to a report by ISNA, the chief of FETA police of Boushehr province said the teen, whose name was not released, has been arrested on charge of “the act of publishing and promoting vulgarity […]