HRANA News Agency – Since more than a month and a half ago, the diet which “includes cheese for breakfast, only rice for lunch, soup for dinner” has been served in Tabriz prison. This meal plan has been served under the pretext of repairing the kitchen by officials of the prison while most inmates could not afford to buy food …

Iran Human Rights -A prisoner was reportedly hanged at Khorramabad Central Prison (Lorestan province, western Iran) on Tuesday June 6. A prisoner identified as Homayoun  Toolabi was reportedly hanged at Khorramabad Prison on murder charges. According to close sources, the execution was carried out on the morning of Tuesday June 6, and the prisoner was held in prison for six …

CHRI—The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) strongly condemns the terrorist attacks in Tehran on June 7 that took the lives of at least 13 people and left 41 people injured. While addressing the people’s legitimate security concerns, we urge the Iranian authorities to avoid violating the citizenry’s civil and political rights. “Despite the threat Iran is facing, the …

  CHRI- Ailing political activist Hengameh Shahidi, who has been on hunger strike in Evin Prison since March 16, 2017 to protest her detention without charge, is being subjected to renewed interrogations by security agents, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. “She was first in Ward 209 where she was interrogated by Intelligence Ministry agents,” said a …

CHRI -Imprisoned music producers Mehdi Rajabian and his brother Hossein Rajabian refused to return to Evin Prison after the judiciary denied Mehdi Rajabian’s request to extend the brief medical furlough they were granted, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. An informed source told CHRI that the Rajabians —both serving three year prison sentences—were granted a four-day …

Al-monitor – A UN-devised global education agenda known as Education 2030 proved to be one of the biggest challenges for incumbent Hassan Rouhani in Iran’s May 19 presidential election. Just 12 days before the polls, on May 7, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei criticized Rouhani’s Cabinet for quietly adopting the measure and said, “It is the Islamic Republic here! Here Islam is …

Al-monitor – Iranians experienced almost six hours of terror on June 7, as terrorists attacked two important sites in the capital of Tehran, which has not seen major bombings since the post-revolutionary violence of the 1980s. AUTHOR Rohollah Faghihi At 10:15 a.m. local time, four terrorists disguised as women tried to enter the parliament building through the special gate for …

PayvandNews – An official in Doha says Qatar has started talks with Iran and Turkey to secure food and water supplies after its biggest regional suppliers – Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – cut trade and diplomatic ties with the country earlier this week.  “We are in talks with Turkey and Iran and other countries,” Reuters quoted the …

VOA – The Islamic State group claimed a pair of attacks Wednesday on Iran’s parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, which have killed two security guards and wounded more than 30 people, with the siege at the legislature still underway. It marks the first attack in Iran claimed by the extremist group, which is at war with Iranian-backed …

CHRI –  Esmail Abdi ended his hunger strike on June 6, 2017 after a “positive” meeting in Evin Prison, according to a statement posted by the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association (ITTA) on its Telegram channel. The statement said the meeting took place between Abdi, his lawyer Amir Salar Davoudi, assistant prosecutor Hajimoradi (first name unknown), two members of the ITTA’s board of directors …