A 65-year-old new Christian convert has been summoned to serve a one-year prison sentence and her friends and family are asking for heavenly help
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Iranian political figures in jail for corruption
Hossein Fereidoun, the younger brother and confidant of President Hassan Rouhani was jailed on Wednesday October 16 after the Court of Appeal in Tehran sentenced him to five years in jail on the first of October
Wife of detained Iranian journalist says IRGC kidnapped Ruhollah in Iraq
New details emerged on Thursday about the mysterious detention of dissident Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam
Arrest of Telegram channel operator shocked Iranians
The arrest of an operator of a popular Telegram channel on Oct. 14 shocked many Iranian dissidents abroad. Rohollah Zam, the administrator of Amad News, was residing in France as a political refugee when the
Russian journalist says she will never go back to Iran again
Nobody can imagine how I loved Iran, but I will never go back to the country, says a Russian journalist who was detained October 2 after arriving in Iran
UK parliament conference weighs human rights violations in Iran
British Parliamentarians on Thursday condemned human rights abuses by the government of Iran. The lawmakers were joined by a delegation of the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
New director of Evin Prison begins with denial of political prisoners rights
The appointment of Gholamreza Ziaei, former director of two disreputable prisons in Iran, as the new chief of Evin Prison on July 27, 2019, has been followed by unlawful restrictions against political prisoners
IRGC will spin the case of kidnapped whistleblower
Authorities in Tehran have lined up to hail the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ (IRGC) fearsome Intelligence Organization for kidnapping an Iranian journalist in Iraq. But the story is not just a simple intrigue of neutralizing an opponent
Khomeinist regime is a misogynist system
On Sunday, October 13th, human rights organizations inside Iran released a statement signed by 17 female political prisoners condemning the regime’s “oppression of women, and its inhumane and unjust behavior
Iran will block Iranians access to google play app store
A judicial order to block Google Play in Iran, which would deny millions of Iranians access to the world’s largest app store for Android devices, has been issued but not yet implemented
Hossein Fereydoun accuses IRGC of eavesdropping on president’s office
After surrendering to serve his five-year term in prison, the younger brother of Iran’s president, Hossein Fereydoun claimed in a statement October 16 that the judge had convicted him based on eavesdropping on the presidential office
