Kasra Nouri 22 years old and Dervish rights activist who is currently being held in Shiraz’s Adel Abad prison, was sentenced to four years and four months in prison by the lower court.Mrs. Sedigheh Khalili, a Gonabadi Dervish and close family member of him, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that […]
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Members of the Association to Defend Child Laborers visit with Behnam and Nima Ebrahimzadeh
On April 22nd, a number of child laborers along with members of the Association to Defend Child Laborers visited labor activist Behnam Ebrahimzadeh and his hospitalized son Nima at Mahak Hospital in Tehran. According to CHRR, members of the association and a number of child laborers from the Nemat Abad area went to the […]
Presidential election to put regime’s claims to the test, says Tajzadeh
The coming weeks will determine whether Iran’s ruling elite, including its leader, are committed to defending the people’s right to shape their own destiny, says a top reformist figure currently behind bars. In his most recent piece, which was published by the Norooz website, Mostafa Tajzadeh, a prominent pro-reform figure in the country, discussed […]
Iranian Activist Flees Iran, Says ‘Civil Society Is In A State Of Desperation’
Well-known Iranian human rights activist Kouhyar Goudarzi — who had been banned from his studies, jailed a number of times, and sentenced to five years in prison — recently fled Iran. Goudarzi, a member and former head of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, was honored while behind bars with the National Press Club’s […]
Teransfer of Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad to Bandar Abbas’s Central Prison/Setting Bail at 130 Million Toman
Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, was transferred to the central prison of southern city of Bandar Abbas yesterday on 5 Ordibehesht 1392( April 25, 2013) and his bail was set in the amount of 130 million toman.According to Majzooban Noor, Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, Gonabadi Dervish and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website who was […]
Kasra Nouri Sentenced to Four Years and Four Months in Prison
Kasra Nouri, Gonabadi Dervish and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website, was sentenced to four years and four months in prison.According to Majzooban Noor, Kasra Nouri was sentenced last week at Branch 3 of Shiraz’s Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Rashidi to four years and four months imprisonment on charges of […]
Accused of Waging “Soft War,” Christian Pastor Beaten in Iran’s Evin Prison
Christian pastor Saeed Abedini was conducting a routine visit to the non-profit orphanage his family helped to start in Rasht when Iranian security forces arrested him and seized his passport in July 2012. Five months later, Iranian courts convicted him of “undermining national security,” accusing him and other Christian converts of waging a “soft […]
Hanover, Paris, Stockholm, Granada – Freedom for Nasrin and Dervishes
Last Sunday evening, 21April, members of the International Organization to Preserve Human Rights in Iran met at the main station in Hanover, playing music on a Persian frame drum Daf along with violin and loudly demanded the release of Nasrin Sotoudeh and the dervishes internet personnel and laywers, imprisoned in Evin prison in Tehran, […]
Detention of Gonabadi Dervish, Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad in The City of Bandar Abbas
Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, Gonabadi Dervish and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website , arrested at his own home in the city of Bndar Abbas this morning on Saturday, 31 Farvardin 1392 ( April 20, 2013).According to Majzooban Noor, around 6 o’clock in the morning, security forces and plain-clothes entered to the house […]
Fariborz Raisdana released from prison
Prominent economic analyst Fariborz Dana was released from prison. According to CHRR, Fariborz Raisdana, imprisoned economic analyst, former university professor and member of the Iranian Writers’ Association, was released on April 15th after serving his prison term. On December 21, 2010, Raisdana was arrested following his criticism of the “targeted subsidies initiative” calling it a […]