CHRI – Sepideh Moradi Sarvestani, a follower of the Sufi Gonabadi Dervish order, was expelled from Tehran’s Tarbiat Modares University on February 3, 2018, for refusing to formally pledge not to engage in activities deemed unacceptable by officials.
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25 Legal Experts Urge Iranian Official to Address “Public Archive” of Abuses Against Baha’is
CHRI – Twenty-five professors, lawyers and judges from around the world have called on the head of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, Mohammad Javad Larijani, to address documented human rights violations against members of the Baha’i faith in Iran compiled on a newly launched website. “The persecution of the Bahá’ís by the Islamic Republic of Iran demonstrates a breach of …
Read More »The IRGC’s Power Delusions Could Spell Catastrophe For Iran
RFL/RE – A deputy commander for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) has boasted that Iran is capable of a military confrontation with its archenemy, the United States.
Read More »‘Resistance Economy’ Means Prosperity for Few, Poverty for Many
RFL/RE – “Resistance economy” has re-emerged in Iranian official rhetoric following the wave of unrest that swept the country in late December 2017 and early January this year.
Read More »Israel says Iran and Syria ‘playing with fire,’ warns Hezbollah must withdraw
Al-Arabia – Israel’s military said Saturday Iran and Syria were “playing with fire” but that it was not seeking an escalation after a confrontation resulted in large-scale Israeli air strikes in Syria.
Read More »Israeli fighter jet shot down after striking Iranian targets in Syria
Al-Arabia – Syrian air forces shot down an Israeli F-16 fighter jet after Israel intercepted an Iranian drone launched from Syria on Saturday, Syrian and Israeli forces confirmed.
Read More »Increasing Pressure on Sunni Prisoners in Rajai Shahr Prison
HRANA News Agency – A large group of Sunni prisoners who have been arrested and sentenced to imprisonment for religious beliefs and activities, are held at Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj. Recently, some of non-Iranian prisoners who have been accused of joining the ISIL were transferred to this prison and were added to the Sunni prisoners. The tension between these …
Read More »Iran Executions: At Least One Prisoner Hanged in Rajai-Shahr Prison
Iran Human Rights – At least one prisoner was hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison on murder charges.
Read More »Thousands of Undocumented Iranians Denied Affordable Kerosene In Winter Months
CHRI – Tens of thousands of people living in poverty in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province are being denied heating oil in the cold winter months because they lack identification papers, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned.
Read More »Two Female Political Prisoners To Begin Refusing Food and Water Over Sudden Transfer to New Prison
CHRI – Imprisoned civil rights activists Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee and Atena Daemi have pledged to escalate their week-long hunger strike into a dry one unless they are returned from Gharchak Prison to the Women’s Ward of Evin Prison by February 10, 2018.
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