Bread shortages in Western Azerbaijan Province have heightened in the past week Fars news agency reports. The report indicates that protests have been especially evident in the city of Naghadeh. Similar shortages have also been reported in cities such as Piranshahr, Takab and Boukan. Fars removed this news item from its website only hours […]
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Remembering Hazrat Shah Nematollah Wali on the Occasion of his Birthday and Death
Sayyid Nūruddīn Kermānī Shāh Ne’matollāh was one of the most influential and prominent Persian Sufi Masters. He was born in Aleppo, Syria, in 1330 CE. He was a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. His father, Mīr ‘Abdullāh was a Sufi Master. He passed his spirituality on to his son, who later became a Sufi […]
As Elections Approach, Iran Remains Silent on Arrests of Journalists
Ali Ghazali (left), managing editor of Baztab Emrooz website, and Foad Sadeghi (right), its founder, have both been arrested but not publicly charged, and Iranian authorities have released no information about their status. Authorities Must Respect Due Process and End Escalating Crackdown Iranian officials should break their silence about the status of Baztab Emrooz’s managing […]
Electoral Campaigns, Interesting, Dicey and Unfair
Are journalists and official media allowed to work for presidential election campaigns? Is it an internationally accepted trend before elections or is it just an Iranian trend? Khabarnegaran.info asked a number of journalists about their opinion on this subject. Simultaneous Campaign and Media News? In less than a month to the election, presidential candidates […]
Journalism after prison More independence, less workplace
How do Iranian journalists deal with journalism after they are released from prisons? How does imprisonment affect their views as journalists? Does it make them conservative or courageous? Do prisons change their perspectives as journalists? Khabarnegaran.info asked these questions from journalists who were recently released from prisons. Independent Journalists Ignore Imprisonment of Iranian journalists […]
Five Years Imprisonment For Mahmoud Beheshti The Former Spokesperson Of Iran Teachers Union
Recently retired former spokesperson of Iran Teachers Union, Mahmoud Beheshti, who is currently out on 150 Million Tomans bail announced: “Yesterday Judge Salavati (head of Tehran Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court) handed down my sentence as follows: Four years imprisonment on charges of assembly and collusion against national security, one year on charges […]
Canada freezes trade with Iran over nuclear program, human rights
Canada will freeze all remaining trade with Iran to protest the Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and its human rights record, Foreign Minister John Baird said on Wednesday. Canada, which has had increasingly poor relations with Iran for more than a decade, had already imposed a series of trade sanctions. In 2012, bilateral trade was worth […]
UN experts concerned at barring of women presidential candidates and freedom restrictions
GENEVA (29 May 2013) – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts today warned that unreasonable limitations placed on the right of Iranian citizens to stand for Presidential office, discrimination against women candidates for elections and ongoing restrictions on freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly, constitute a serious violations of rights […]
Weekly report on Human Right Violation in Iran (26/05/2013)
Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Iran1. As a result of city officers using bulldozers to demolish the houses of seven Arabic citizens in the Shelang-Abad area of Ahvaz, two men, named Shahrokh Zamaani and Khaled Hardaani have been on hunger strike since Saturday the 18th of May in order to show their […]
Reformist slams Supreme Leader’s “absolute monarchy”
Political prisoner Mostafa Tajzadeh, a top reformist figure, announced in a letter from jail that the establishment has left no alternative for reformists but to boycott the elections. Tajzadeh writes that the disqualification of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Esfandiar Rahim Mashai and other volunteers for the presidential race has simply “left the road open for […]