Iran Focus: Strasbourg, Jan. 14 After a debate in which a number of Euro-MPs spoke out against the terror-tag placed upon the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), the European Parliament yesterday adopted a resolution on Iran calling for a review of the European Union’s list of terrorist organisations.
European Parliament adopts Iran resolution to review EU terror list
Human Rights Watch annual report condemns violations in Iran
Iran Focus: Paris, Jan. 14 – In its annual report on human rights practices around the globe Human Rights Watch said that “basic human rights in Iran, especially freedom of expression and opinion, deteriorated in 2004”. “Torture and ill-treatment in detention, including indefinite solitary confinement, are used routinely to punish dissidents
Abuses are carried out by what Iranians call ‘parallel institutions’: …
Human Rights Watch annual report condemns violations in Iran
Iran Focus: Paris, Jan. 14 – In its annual report on human rights practices around the globe Human Rights Watch said that “basic human rights in Iran, especially freedom of expression and opinion, deteriorated in 2004”. “Torture and ill-treatment in detention, including indefinite solitary confinement, are used routinely to punish dissidents
Abuses are carried out by what Iranians call ‘parallel institutions’: …
Nearly 1,500 guns rounded up in western Iran province in past 9 months
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 14 Some 1,459 guns have been confiscated over the past nine months in Kermanshah province (western Iran), according to the province’s chief of State Security Forces (SSF). “The confiscated weapons along with those caught smuggling them have been apprehended and will be …
Nearly 1,500 guns rounded up in western Iran province in past 9 months
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 14 Some 1,459 guns have been confiscated over the past nine months in Kermanshah province (western Iran), according to the province’s chief of State Security Forces (SSF). “The confiscated weapons along with those caught smuggling them have been apprehended and will be …
50,000 drug addicts rounded up in Iran capital in past 9 months
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 14 – More than 50,000 people have been arrested in Greater Tehran in the past nine months, according to the head of the Office to Combat Narcotics in Greater Tehran. “A large proportion of those in custody, who comprise people from different sectors of society, are between 25 and 30 years of age”, Major Ghodratollah Mahmoudi said in an interview with a state-run news agency
on Wednesday.
50,000 drug addicts rounded up in Iran capital in past 9 months
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 14 – More than 50,000 people have been arrested in Greater Tehran in the past nine months, according to the head of the Office to Combat Narcotics in Greater Tehran. “A large proportion of those in custody, who comprise people from different sectors of society, are between 25 and 30 years of age”, Major Ghodratollah Mahmoudi said in an interview with a state-run news agency
on Wednesday.
150,000 drug addicts in northeast Iran city
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 13 – There are at least 150,000 drug addicts in the city of Mashad (northeast Iran), according to the head of the city’s Central Medical Bureau.
“According to recent statistics there are 150,000 drug addicts
at present in Mashad”, Rajab Hedayatnia said.
150,000 drug addicts in northeast Iran city
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 13 – There are at least 150,000 drug addicts in the city of Mashad (northeast Iran), according to the head of the city’s Central Medical Bureau.
“According to recent statistics there are 150,000 drug addicts
at present in Mashad”, Rajab Hedayatnia said.
Iran Al-Qaeda link arrested in Kuwait: Radio
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 13 – An Iranian agent was arrested in Kuwait in connection with the latest spate of Al-Qaeda-related attacks in the Middle East. Sawa Radio reported that the unnamed individual was arrested by Kuwaiti security forces after recent intelligence implicated him as a cell in communication with the Al-Qaeda network with prior information on the attacks in Saudi Arabia.
