In a heinous crime on April 5, 2017, a seriously ill prisoner was hanged in Esfahan prison. Houshang Servati was executed while two days earlier, after his transfer to solitary confinement, had suffered a heart attack. He ...
A little over a month before Iranians head to the polls on May 19, 2017, Judiciary Chief Sadegh Larijani has warned that a repeat of the protests against the disputed result of the 2009 presidential election would ...
Music producers Mehdi and Hossein Rajabian returned to Evin Prison in Tehran on April 4, 2017 after their request for an extension of their seven-day temporary leave was denied by the judiciary, an informed source told the ...
According to the director of the Task Force to Modernize Tehran Province’s Schools, there are nearly 1000 worn-out, unsafe schools in the province, accounting for 25-30 percent of the educational space.
An additional 91 days were added to civil rights activist Atena Daemi’s seven-year prison sentence for her peaceful activism. The sentence was issued to Daemi and her two sisters after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) responded ...
Separate but not equal isn’t the tagline of this weekend’s upcoming marathon in Tehran, but it could be. On Wednesday, race organizers confirmed to the Associated Press that while the men get to enjoy an outdoor course ...
According to reports, jailed civil activist Atena Daemi and her two sisters Aniseh and Hanieh have been sentenced to prison and suspended prison for “insulting the officers on duty.”
The political prisoner, Ebrahim Firouzi went on hunger strike in Gohardasht (Western-Tehran) Prison for two days in order to support the release of the political prisoners Rasoul Hardani and Shahram
Speakers at a conference held in the United Nations European Headquarters in Geneva by the international Radical Party condemned widespread human rights violations and increasing executions in Iran, and discussed the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners ...
Five Baha’is were arrested at their homes in the city of Isfahan on March 28, 2017, Simin Fahandej, the faith’s spokesperson at the United Nations in Geneva confirmed to the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).
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