Zakaria Ghaderi, the professor of political science of Kerman Azad University, has been deprived of lecturing, by the pressure of the university security. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Dr. Zakaria Ghaderi says that the discussed subjects in his classes and his papers, are the reason of this decision. […]
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Reporters Without Borders Unblocks Banned News Websites
Media advocacy watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it is unblocking access to nine news websites in an effort to combat online censorship by governments that violate human rights. RSF said the move, dubbed Operation Collateral Freedom and launched on March 12 to mark the World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, will make the sites available […]
Six Sunni Kurdish prisoners banned from having visitors
Mokhtar Rahimi, Shahram Ahmadi, Kaveh Vaisi, Kaveh Sharifi, Taleb Maleki and Behrouz Shanhnazari, six of Sunni prisoners in ward 350 of Evin prison have been banned from being visited by their families since four months ago. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), these prisoners who are sentenced […]
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.
On Hunger Strike, Incarcerated Attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh Has Been Banned From Visits For Three Weeks
Incarcerated rights attorney, Nasrin Sotoudeh has been banned from visits for three weeks by Evin prison’s Disciplinary Board.
Actors who don’t comply with dress code banned from travel, says judiciary
GVF — The spokesman for the Iranian judiciary has announced that Iranian actors who do not fully comply with the dress code for women (hijab) will be barred from leaving the country.
Nasrin Sotoudeh’s 13-year Old Daughter Banned From Foreign Travel
A security court in Tehran has ruled to ban foreign travel for human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, and her daughter, Mehraveh Khandan, 13. Reza and Mehraveh Khandan each received a ruling and summons notice from Branch Two of Tehran’s Shahid Moghaddas Court, located next to Evin Prison, which is dedicated […]
Banned from buying iPads? Apple vendors in Iran scoff at sanctions
Vendors of Apple products in Iran on Saturday scoffed at U.S. media reports that the consumer technology giant was banning U.S. sales to customers of Iranian background, pointing out that iPads and iPhones are widely available in Tehran.
Hunger Striker Mohamad Sedigh Kaboudvand Transferred to Evin Clinic And Banned From Phone Calls
Mohamad Sedigh Kaboudvand, founder of the Kurdistan Defense of Human Rights Organization, who launched a hunger strike 12 days ago, has been transferred to the medical clinic in Evin prison in poor health, and has been banned from phone calls for some days.
Iranian cell-phone carrier obtained banned U.S. tech
A fast-growing Iranian mobile-phone network managed to obtain sophisticated U.S. computer equipment despite sanctions that prohibit sales of American technology to Iran, interviews and documents show.