Iran said on Thursday a blogger who died while in police custody may have lost his life as a result of a form of shock, the official IRNA news agency reported, adding that investigations were not yet concluded.
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A Brief Report on Human Rights Situation in Iran in Aban 1391 [October- November 2012]
Shirin Ebadi, Human Rights Defender and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, in continuation of her monthly reports, has reviewed the human rights situation in Iran in Aban 1391 [October- November 2012].
Wife of imprisoned lawyer sentenced to one year in prison
Wife of imprisoned lawyer and member of Defenders of Human Rights Center sentenced to one year in prison and banned from leaving Iran.
Dialogue on the situation in Iran and the tricks of the regime concerning Europe
In a dialogue setting between the New Flemish Alliance (NVA) and members of the International Organization to preserve Human Rights in Iran inside the Belgian Parliament there was the intensive talk about the massive Human Rights violations of the regime.
UN nuclear chief says Iran standoff ‘worrying’
The standoff on Iran’s nuclear programme is worrying, the head of the UN atomic watchdog said Monday, but stressed that work for a diplomatic solution should continue.
Iran faces shortages of medical supplies, infant formula
The head of the Iranian Association of Pharmacists says the price of medical products has risen by 245 percent, and infant formula and medical drugs for special diseases are in short supply at Iranian pharmacies.
Iran Deputies To Mull Draft Law Restricting Women’s Right To Travel
Lawmakers in Iran are preparing to consider legislation that may drastically alter an adult woman’s ability to obtain a passport and travel outside the country.
UN Calls For Iran Blogger Death Investigation
A group of United Nations experts have urged Iran to undertake an independent investigation into the death in custody of Iranian blogger Sattar Beheshti.
Sanctions’ ill effects
The Disappearance of Lifesaving Drugs On Vali Asr Street, in a lower-income district of southwest Tehran, a 30-year-old man storms out of a pharmacy. Arash, a bachelor with long hair and a substantial mustache, lives with his father, for whose heart medicine he has been searching fruitlessly.
Iran postpones second round of subsidy cuts
An Iranian lawmaker says the country’s parliament has postponed the implementation of a second round of subsidy cuts until 2013 over fears of stoking already rampant inflation.