Iran Human Rights

Labour activist wins temporary prison leave

Iran Focus: Reza Shahabi, a member of the Board of Directors Tehran’s Bus Drivers Syndicate, who had gone on a hunger strike 23...

Iran to hang dissidents on bogus charges

Iran Focus: Friday prayer leader of the northwestern town of Marivan has gone to Tehran to prevent the prosecutor general and the...

Iran lawmakers find cyber police guilty of blogger death: Mehr

Bloomberg: Iran’s parliament said the Tehran branch of the cyber police unit is responsible for the death in detention of a blogger who...

Iran designing software for controlled social media access

AFP: Iran is designing "intelligent software" that would give citizens restricted and controlled access to banned social networking sites, local media on...

Activist stages hunger strike in prison

Iran Focus: Reza Shahabi, a member of the Board of Directors Tehran’s Bus Drivers Syndicate, has staged a hunger strike in prison for...

Blogger’s death stirs political hornet’s nest in Iran

Reuters: Like many of his peers, the 35-year-old laborer was devout and lived at home with his mother. But his life changed when he...

US ‘aware’ of report of jailed pastor in Iran

AP: The U.S. State Department says it is in contact with the family of a man described by activists as an Iranian-American Christian...

U.N. condemns rights abuses in Iran, North Korea and Syria

Reuters: The U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea, Iran and Syria on Thursday for widespread human rights abuses and all three countries...

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Iran’s Regime Executes Abbas Akbari Feyzabadi, One of the Protesters of the January Uprising

Mizan News Agency, affiliated with the judiciary of the Iranian regime, reported early Monday, May 25, on the execution...

Rising Dairy Prices Send New Shock to Lives of People in Iran

The state-run Hamshahri newspaper published a report on May 23 regarding a new wave of price increases in dairy...

Italian Parliament Conference Condemns Executions in Iran, Voices Support for NCRI

Italian lawmakers and human rights advocates gathered at the Italian Parliament on May 21 for a conference with Maryam...

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More Than 300 Global Figures Urge UN Action Over Rising Executions in Iran

A coalition of more than 300 international legal experts,...

Iran’s ‘No to Execution Tuesdays’ campaign marks 121st week

The “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign entered its 121st...

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EU, China talk over how, not if, to sanction Iran

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