by Mohammadreza Sardari Figures at various levels of the Islamic Republic continue to react to the release of audio files involving conversations between the late dissident cleric Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri and top gove ment figures regarding the “death committee” in charge of the mass executio...

by: Ehsan Mehrabi It has now been established that Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) Supreme Leader has absolute jurisdiction over the release of the three opposition leaders who have been under house arrest since February 2011. Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and Zahra Rahnavard are the leader of ...

Shahram Amiri, the Iranian nuclear scientist who disappeared from Iran in 2009, later on claiming that he was kidnapped, tortured and bribed to cooperate with the CIA on revealing Iranian nuclear secrets was covertly executed in Iran. Shahram Amiri recived a hero’s welcome upon retu to Iran in 2010 ...

by: Ehsan Mehrabi On 2 Aug 2016 a number of Su i prisoners in Rejaishahr Prison in Karaj were hanged for charges ranging from acting against national security, propaganda against the regime, membership in Salafai groups, corruption on earth and enmity against God. The executions triggered Ehsan Mehr...

by: Ehsan Mehrabi On 2 Aug 2016 a number of Su i prisoners in Rejaishahr Prison in Karaj were hanged for charges ranging from acting against national security, propaganda against the regime, membership in Salafai groups, corruption on earth and enmity against God. The executions triggered Ehsan Mehr...

In 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) executed at least 4000 political prisoners. IRI has never acknowledged these executions, nor provided any information as to how many prisoners were killed. Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri On 9 Aug 2016, the house of ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a high-...

Shahram Amiri, the Iranian nuclear scientist who disappeared from Iran in 2009, later on claiming that he was kidnapped, tortured and bribed to cooperate with the CIA on revealing Iranian nuclear secrets was covertly executed in Iran. Shahram Amiri recived a hero’s welcome upon retu to Iran in 2010 ...

Molavi Abdolhamid, the leader of the Baluchi Su i minority in Zahedan province in Iran has raised his conce about the execution of 20 Su i religious activists. Molavi Abdolhamid On 5 Aug, Abdolhamid, the Su i Friday prayer Imam of city of Zahidan in southe Iran, said that the recent execution of Su ...

The Inte ational Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has called upon the Iranian authorities to release the names of the Su i Kurds executed in Iran on 2 Aug 2016. Su i prisoners pray in Rajai Shahr prison, many of them have been executed now Iran is withholding the names of Su i prisoners who were ha...

Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the United Nation commissioner for human rights on 5 August condemned the execution of 20 Su i Kurds in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj Tehran. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has said there are “serious doubts about the fai ess of the trials”. 20 people were executed in Iran this week for ...

Iran’s Cyber Police in Weste Azerbaijan reports that in the past four months 192 individuals were arrested for cyber crime charges. Security forces officer, Colonel Hassan KourehBolaghi told reporters that currently the majority of cyber crimes are related to activities in social media. ISNA reports...

by Assad Binakhahi

Riot control guards have raided prison ward 4 associated with Su i prisoners on death row in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj, Iran. The riot control police known as the Black Guards then cuffed 30 Su i prisoners and transferred them to an undisclosed location. Rajai Shahr Prison where 36 Su i prisoners ...

By Azam Bahrami The Iranian constitution has concrete language prohibiting any form of development detrimental to the country’s environment. However, the large scale water transfer projects considered by the gove ment as remedies to the ongoing water shortage vows in various regions of the country h...

By: Hirad Toloui “Stupid and incompetent doctors destroyed and killed such a dear treasure. They should be prosecuted…I am infuriated; murders are among us,” Daryoosh Mehrjui, veteran Iranian filmmaker spoke into the microphone at the funeral of late Abbas Kiarostami in Lavasan. Mehrjui’s statements...

The head of the judiciary for Damavand municipality has a ounced that more than 50 young Iranian women and men have been arrested in raiding of a mixed-gender party in Ab-e Sard region. Damavand is a rural mountainous area northeast of the Iranian capital, Tehran, where Tehranians go to relax, hike ...

By Siamak Ghaderi* Prison work for inmates in Iran is a chance to briefly escape the inexorable walls that prescribe their daily lives for years on end or perhaps for the rest of their lives. However, prison workers have become slaves in ventures solely aimed at replenishing the pockets of prison of...

by: Assad Binakhahi

Two Iranian-Kurdish porters carrying loads across the Chalderan border were killed and three others severely injured by Islamic Republic security forces last week. Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) has identified the two deceased porters as Borhan Alam Houlo and Mostafa Mehrpour. Porters (k...

By Reza Jozani