Seven workers of the Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Mill in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan, southwest Iran, were each sentenced to eight months suspended prison sentence, and thirty lashes, the Haft Tapeh workers independent social media channel
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Iran regime using torture and executions to defy human rights
More than a dozen political prisoners in Iran recently launched a hunger strike to protest the unspeakable conditions under which they have been living since their incarceration for civil-rights activities
Amnesty raises alarm over fate of Iranian rights defender tortured in prison
Amnesty International says the Iranian authorities continue to deny imprisoned human rights activist Arash Sadeghi access to urgent medical treatment, further putting his life at risk
Iranian soldiers took away drinking water from sailors of siezed ship
It is almost a month since the British tanker Stena Impero has been seized by Iran and the family of Dijo Pappachan, one of the sailors on board, continue to wait for their son’s return. Though Dijo’s family in Kochi has been able to communicate with him over the phone
Mazyar Ebrahimi was tortured in Iran to confess of being an Israeli spy
A former Iranian business says he was tortured into confessing on Iranian TV to being an Israeli spy – a crime that carries the death penalty
Defense attorney in Iran complaining of torture threatened with arrest
An independent labor union in Iran reports that the defense attorney of a jailed activist, who has complained about torture in prison, has been threatened with arrest on Saturday, August 10
Iran sentences 7 people to hand and finger amputation and flogging
Iran sentenced seven people charged with robbery to hand amputation, finger amputation, and flogging in Tehran
Javad Zarif smiles for cameras while regime tortures dissidents
With his neatly trimmed beard, wide smile and receding white hair (never covered by a turban), Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, is widely viewed in the Western media as the moderate face of his regime. The reality is somewhat different
Canadian resident escapes Iran after 11 years in prison
A web designer escaped Iran to Canada after spending 11 years in prison for creating a program that allows users to upload photos to the internet
Iranian human rights lawyer sentenced to 30 years and 111 lashes
A Revolutionary Court in Tehran has upheld a 30-year prison sentence against Amirsalar Davoudi a human rights lawyer and defender of several political activists
Iranian prisoner flogged 100 times for drinking alcohol and insulting Islam
The flogging of Kurdish singer and prisoner of conscience Peyman Mirzazadeh 100 times demonstrates the shocking brutality of Iran’s justice system, said Amnesty International
