Human Rights
The Iranian national soccer team qualified for the World Cup in Brazil in 2014. Iranians, celebrating World Cup soccer qualification after a 1-0 win over South Korea, broke into political chants, shouting “Ya Hossein! Mir Hossein (Mousavi)!” Special units attacked people celebrating the victory in Rasht…
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Women not allowed to attend national soccer team World Cup qualifying celebration in Tehran’s Azadi stadium. The public relations department of the Iranian Football Federation published a statement that reads, “In this ceremony, only men are allowed to be present and the women who like the…
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Close to 200 political activists published a letter in which they announced that disturbing rumors had been circulating about the condition of Arash Sadeghi, who had started a hunger strike “because he had been beaten by security agents.” In the blogosphere there was even more disturbing…
Read More →Student activist Ibrahim Askari, who is studying for his master’s degree in Tehran was suspended from studies at the orders of the Intelligence Ministry. Despite repeated requests, no explanation for the decision could be obtained. …
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Toward the end of Rouhani’s press conference, a man in the crowd chanted, “Mr. Rouhani remembers Mir Hossein (Mousavi – Green leader under house arrest for more than two years). He must be present (on the political scene).” It was the first time that Mousavi’s name…
Read More →The revolutionary court in Shiraz imposed a 3.8 year sentence on each of the four Christian converts charged with disseminating Christianity, association with Christian organizations overseas, anti-regime propaganda and harming national security. The four are Mojataba Saeed Alaaladin Hossein, Mohammad Reza Faroutaei, Vahid Hakani and Homayoun…
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The prisoner, Rosita Vatakaei, who is serving a five-year prison sentence for her faith, requires emergency surgery, but the Prosecutor General and intelligence headquarters is preventing her from receiving medical treatment. …
Read More →“Significant production decline” at the Iran automobile plants has “imposed harsh work and income conditions on thousands of workers at this great Iranian automobile manufacturing company.” Among the conditions, the website lists elimination of shift work, elimination of Friday and holiday bonus payments and grants, delayed…
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Alireza Ja’faripur, head of the labor union at the Taban Textile plant in Yazd, said that some 40 workers at the plant have not received their wages “for three consecutive months due to financial problems at the factory.” Ja’faripur added that the number of workers at…
Read More →Mohammad Reza Khosrawi Sabad Jani, brother of Oualem Reza Khosrawi, a political prisoner sentenced to death, was arrested last Thursday by internal security forces. No information has been released as to the cause of his arrest or on his whereabouts. Oualem Reza was sentenced to death…
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Prisoners reported that the bodies of Mohammad Danaei and Javad Abu-Ali, who were subjected to physical and mental torture, showed signs of torture. The report further revealed that only Javad Abu-Ali managed to meet with his lawyer, which was also attended by security officials who protested…
Read More →The five are Salehi, Mahmoudi, Abdalli, Kashevaraz and Yazdi Menash. The five are accused of actions that harm national security and were transferred to Wing 209 of Evin Prison following their arrest. …
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Reporters Without Borders condemns an increase in the Iranian government’s harassment of Iranian journalists in the final days before the June 14th presidential elections and the restrictions imposed on the few foreign journalists allowed into Iran to cover the upcoming elections…
Read More →Ahl-e Haqq is considered the largest religious minority in Iran that is not officially recognized by the regime and does not enjoy civil privileges. Hassan self-immolated in front of the Hamedan Province municipality to protest the harm inflicted on members of his community in Hamedan Prison….
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Student activist from Tabriz University, Amir Chamani, was lashed 40 times in a sentence imposed on him despite having completed serving a nine-month prison sentence over five months ago….
Read More →The journalist, Hesamoldin Eslamlu, was taken to Kerman Prison on his arrest, but there is no information about where he is being held. In October 2012, some of the journal’s editorial committee members were arrested on charges of anti-regime propaganda and insulting senior officials on Facebook….
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Mohammad Sadegh (Arash) Honarvar Shojaei Khoee has been accused of insulting the honor of the Founder of the Revolution in a press interview while on leave from prison, of anti-regime propaganda and of violating an order forbidding him to wear clerical clothing….
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Hadi Ghaemi, Executive Director of the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, said that If there was any doubt that the Iranian regime planned “to engineer” the upcoming presidential elections to make sure a regime favorite ends up in office, “It has now become crystal clear…….
Read More →Security forces conducted a search of Azad’s home and confiscated her personal effects. According to her relatives, no official information has been released as to her whereabouts, but she is believed to be held in Wing 209 of Evin Prison. 54-year-old Fatma was a political prisoner…
Read More →In the previous elections, Amin Batani was a member of the Mousavi election campaign and was imprisoned for ten days. …
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