15 Dec, 2017 Two executions in Khoy and Shiraz in Iran A 36-year-old man was publicly hanged on December 14, in Khoy, in East Azerbaijan Province, according to the state-run IRIB news agency....
14 Dec, 2017 After burn victims denied compensation because they are girls A lawyer in Iran is speaking out about sexism in the country’s legal code after the families of two children who died in a fire at an ...
29 Nov, 2017 Political prisoners slapped with new charges for engaging in peaceful protest Three prisoners in Iran’s Rajaee Shahr Prison are facing new charges for participating in a mass protest at the prison in August 2017...
22 Nov, 2017 Intelligence ministry pressures two sunni Rouhani campaign managers to halt peaceful advocacy efforts Within the course of the same week, two Sunni Muslim politicians were warned by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry to stop advocating for Sunni Muslims rights,
21 Nov, 2017 After being beaten by Rajaee Shahr Guards prisoner transferred to other prison Three political prisoners serving life sentences have been transferred from Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran, to Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province, 444 ...
08 Nov, 2017 13-year-old killed under torture for carrying 20 liters of gasoline in Iran Revolutionary Guards Brigadier General Hossein Zolfaghari, deputy interior minister in Rouhani’s cabinet, has described news about the slaughter of impoverished porters in Iran as "misleading."
02 Nov, 2017 Map targets the mass graves of victims of 1988 massacre in Iran In the summer of 1988, in response to a fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini immediately following Iran’s announcement that it had agreed to a cease-fire in the ...
01 Nov, 2017 Rights activists call on political prisoner Mohammad Nazari to end hunger strike More than 700 Iranian political and civil rights activists have called on one of Iran’s longest serving political prisoners to end his life-threatening hunger strike...
31 Oct, 2017 Crisis of student Kolbars in Iran A member of the Iranian regime's parliament, referring to what he calls “Crisis of Student Kolbar (Porters)”, said that 75,000 people in Iran...
12 Oct, 2017 Leftist poet missing after intelligence ministry raided his home Children’s rights advocate and leftist poet Omid Aghdami has been missing since October 5, 2017, two days after he tweeted that Intelligence Ministry
07 Oct, 2017 Exiled members of Sufi Gonabadi Dervish order told to repent or serve life in prison The sentences of a lifetime in exile issued against Mohammad Ali Shamshirzan and Hamid Arayesh of the Sufi order in Iran known as Gonabadi Dervishes...
