Tragic news about the deaths of wife and mother of an exiled political prisoner on their way back from visiting him in Masjed-e Soleyman Prison has shocked Iranians worldwide. Nahid Rahmani, mother, and Ziba Sadeghzadeh, wife, of Amir Reza (Payman) Arefi, were on their way back from their monthly trip to Masjed-e-Soleyman (500 miles […]
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Two Kurds die of self-immolation
Two followers of Ahl-e Haqq in Kurdistan set themselves on fire in protest to the persecution of another member of this group. Ahl-e Haqq is a religious minority whose members are mostly ethnic Kurds. According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), on June 4, 2013, Hassan Razavi set himself on […]
26 Die In Iranian Bus Accident
A passenger bus carrying female students has overturned in southwestern Iran, killing 26 of those aboard.
Prisoners of Conscience Could Die In Iranian Government Jails
Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), its Iranian affiliate (the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights) and Reporters Without Borders firmly condemn the inhuman treatment that human rights activists, journalists, netizens and other prisoners of conscience are receiving in Iran’s jails.