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On the anniversary of the university attack by security forces (18 Tir), a group from the Mourning Mothers visited the home of imprisoned student activist Majid Tavakoli to share their…

Women’s and children’s rights activist Maryam Zia was summoned to the ourt on Sunday July 4 and was tried although despite the absence of the prosecutor’s representative. She was tried…

A 43-year-old Iranian woman will not be stoned to death after an international campaign launched by her children. It is unclear whether the authorities have lifted the death sentence for…

Tehran, Jul. 08 – Tensions increased at Tehran’s grand Bazaar on Wednesday after a respected merchant was stabbed to death, allegedly by pro-government supporters, on the second day of a…

Salman Sima, an Azad University activist who was detained on June 12, 2010 for the second time since last year, was released from prison on Monday July 5, 2010. According…

Shahnaz Ranjbar, a Baha’i resident of Qaem Shahr in Mazandaran province was released on bail on 27 June 2010. According to Khabar-Navard weblog, she had been arrested on June 7,…

There is no information as to the alleged charges. According to the Mokrian News Agency, Asadi was detained on Monday, June 28th in Karaj. He had been sentenced to exile…

Parvin Tajik, Abdolreza Tajik’s sister said that since Mr. Tajik’s arrest on 12 June 12 2010, they have no information about where and why he was arrested or where he…

Some residents of Tehran-Sar and Ekbatan townships in west Tehran have this week received leaflets in their mailboxes from pro-democracy activists urging them to take part in anti-government protests to…

According to his attorney, Malihi was charged with participating in illegal gatherings and anti- regime propaganda.  Malihi and Dadkhah presented their final defense to the judge in the 28th branch…

“In the Summer of 2003 my father went to the city of Kazerun to visit a relative who was ill. On the way back, two soldiers and two other people…

The 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court has sentenced Farzad Eslami to one year of imprisonment for engaging in anti-regime propaganda by participating in the illegal gathering at the University…

Committee of Human Rights Reporters – According to the announcement made by the parents of Mohammad Reza Haddadi, a young man who was charged and arrested at the age of…

The Guardian – In response to revelations of abuse and killing at Kahrizak detention centre, Tehran has resorted to punishing scapegoat. Faced with undeniable evidence of a scandal, one solution…

Officials of Special Clerics Court have threatened to exile dissident cleric Ayatollah Boroujerdi to a remote and abandoned location lacking any type of communication means. RAHANA- The current threat came…

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a sweeping new package of sanctions on Iran, aiming to force Tehran to halt its suspected nuclear weapons program by…

The physicians in Orumieh prison went on strike today in protest to their working conditions. The physicians are protesting months of non payment of their wages and the lack of…

Arash Sadeghi, a political activist and student was sentenced to six years in prison and seventy-four lashings. Arash Sadeghi attended Alameh Tabatabai University where he was a member of the…

Archive photo of Neda Agha Soltan’s mother with a picture of daughter Report regarding the gathering of the Mourning Mothers with the mother of Neda Agha Soltan On Wednesday afternoon,…

Although forty days have passed since the executions of Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heydariyan, Farhad Vakili, Shirin Alam-Hooli and Mehdi Eslamiyan family members are still uncertain of where their bodies have…

TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday branded new sanctions slapped on Tehran as “confused acts” which showed the helplessness of world powers in dealing with…