After Iran’s Supreme Leader appealed to the public to take part in the elections even if they oppose the regime, now the ultra-conservative and extremist figures of the establishment are saying widespread participation in the elections is “the strategy of the country’s enemies to engineer the outcom...

The Evin Memorial Campaign is an initiative supported by Radio Zamaneh to build a monument in words and preserve the memories of those who suffered in and through Evin Prison. The campaign is also in defiance of those who perpetrated those sufferings and are now pla ing to clear away every trace of ...

The trial of Issa Saharkhiz, Ehsan Mazandarani and another jou alist, who were arrested last November by the Revolutionary Guards in the course of a state operation to “combat infiltrators”, is set for March 6. Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabayi, the lawyer for the jou alists, reported that he received the...

February 21, 2016 at 3:18 am Head of Khuzestan Public Health a ounced emergency conditions in Ahwaz due to heavy pollution and all citizens are recommended to stay at home. On Saturday February 20 Shokrollah Salmanzadeh told ISNA that dust particles in Khuzestan air have put the cities under wa ing....

Eighteen Iranian activists have been sentenced to 91 days in jail and 74 lashes for participating in a peaceful protest in November that the court saw as “disturbing the public peace”. The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reports that the flogging sentences for 16 of the activists have bee...

The Reformists Supreme Council of election policy has released a list of 62 candidates it is endorsing in the Assembly of Experts election. On Friday February 19, the council website Game Dovom published the list of candidates from 27 Iranian provinces. The list does not yet include any representati...

Mohammad Ajami, director of Foreign Immigrants Affairs in Khorasan Razavi, has a ounced that the province is home to 20,000 undocumented children bo of unregistered marriages between Iranian women and foreign nationals. The Ghanoon daily quoted Ajami on Friday February 19 saying 20,000 children bo t...

More than half of the population of Sistan-Baluchistan Province lives in villages, and close to 95 percent of these villages do not have infrastructure for clean drinking water. The director of Rural Water and Wastewater in the province, Alireza Narooyi, said on Tuesday February 16 that more than 1,...

February 20, 2016 at 3:14 am Fifteen activists in Saqez have reportedly been arrested in the past week for undisclosed reasons. Zamaneh has been informed that 10 of the detainees have been released but the other five still remain in custody. Fatih Dündari, Saman Pashaii, Farshad Darai, Nader Majidia...

Behzad Kiani

Attacks against detractors of the Guardian Council have escalated, with Tehran’s Friday Mass Imam referring to critics of the council and its role in the elections as British agents. Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi said on Friday February 19 that participation in the elections is a means of “protecting reli...

A speaking event for reformist figures Ali Shakourirad and Faezeh Hashemi at Shiraz University was reportedly cancelled due to pressure from extremists. Shiraz University The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reports that the Cultural and Political Society of Shiraz University has filed a c...

Aliasghar Honarmand, Hossein Nozari, Ehsan Paknejad and Abbas Vahedi, the administrators of the Narenji (orange) website, have reportedly been transferred to Kerman prison. The Inte ational Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reports that the four bloggers were transferred to Kerman Prison on Wednesda...

Jailed Iranian jou alist Issa Saharkhiz, who had stopped eating in protest of his treatment in prison, has reportedly ended his hunger strike. The jou alist’s son, Mehdi Saharkhiz, wrote on his Facebook page that his father had ended his strike after “prison authorities offered him a series of promi...

The following is a contribution from Shirin Ebadi Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate and human rights activist to Evin Memorial Campaign , a campaign launched with the support of Radio Zamaneh to build a monument in words to remember those who suffered in and through this prison, and in reaction to Tehran...

Iran’s Supreme Leader, speaking on Wednesday February 17, less than 10 days before the election, condemned criticism directed at the Guardian Council and wa ed against “infiltration of the elections by the enemy” and “attacking the Guardian Council”. Ayatollah Khamenei stated that “attacking the Gua...

The Kerman gove or says the drying out of the Jazmurian Wetlands is posing serious danger to millions of lives. The Mehr News Agency reported on Wednesday February 17 that the dried-out Jazmurian wetlands has become the source of 25 percent of dust particles plaguing various Iranian cities and causi...

Atena Daemi, an Iranian political activist who has been in Evin Prison’s women’s ward for over a year, was released today on bail of 700 million toumans. Atena Daemi The Kaleme website reports that 27-year-old Daemi was released on Monday February 15. She was arrested in September of 2013 by Revolut...

February 16, 2016 at 3:58 pm Iran’s deputy interior minister on security says it has arrested a group of “election disruptors” in the easte part of the country. The Tasnim website reports the ministry spokesman made the a ouncement on Tuesday February 16, saying: “Elements trying to disrupt the elec...

Nikan Khosravi and Arash Ilkhani, two members of the musical group Confess who were arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, have now been released. The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reports that Khosravi and Ilkhani were arrested in November and were held in solitary confinement for th...