Kurdistan security forces seize over 60,000 satellite dishes and arrest 1,900 people for watching satellite channels.
Tag: Iranian
Jailed reformist wants Iranian leader to resign
Jailed reformist Abolfazl Ghadiyani has called on Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Kahmenei to step down from his all-powerful position for the sake of the system.
5 girls under 10 years of age married in southern Iranian province
The head of the General Department for Registration of Documents said that five girls under 10 year of age were married in the Province of Hormozgan.
General Assembly Condemns Iranian Regime’s Abuses
The UN General Assembly has approved a resolution denouncing the serious human rights abuses occurring in the Islamic Republic of Iran.In a decisive vote, the United Nations General Assembly has approved a resolution denouncing the serious human rights abuses occurring in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Roudaki Samarqandi Iranian Poet
Abu Abdollah Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki[1] (Persian: ابوعبدالله جعفر ابن محمد رودکی, Tajik: Абӯабдуллоҳ Ҷаъфар Ибни Муҳаммад, entitledآدم الشعرا Ādam ul-Shoara or Adam of Poets), also written as Rudagi (858 – ca. 941), was a Persian poet, and is regarded as the first great literary genius of the Modern Persian, who composed poems in […]
Iranian Christian Journalist Discusses Government Campaign to Target Protestants
The Farsi Christian News Network is an organization comprised of Iranian journalists disseminating information about Christians in Iran.
Idle staff surf the net in London’s Iranian banks
LONDON (Reuters) – If it were not for the light blue Persian-lettered sign outside, you might mistake Bank Saderat for just another foreign bank operating in the City of London financial centre.
Iranian advocacy council: “For the 6th consecutive year, student activists are banned from pursuing higher education”
The Advocacy Council for the Right to Education’s Declaration on *Starred StudentsFor the sixth consecutive year, [Iranian authorities] have barred students from pursuing higher education.
“Starred” student activist endures more abuse in gruesome Iranian prison
Starred student activist Zia Nabavi is illegally held in prison exile. In Iran, a starred student is banned from pursuing higher education because he or she spoke out against educational discrimination, a practice denied by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Iranian prisoners held in appalling conditions
The transfer of political prisoner Saeed Saleki to Dezfool Prison has brought the attention of human rights activists to the prison’s dire conditions.