IOPHR – In a newly issued statement by the members of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, Amnesty International and Karolniska Institute addressed to the Iranian Ambassador in Sweden, the Iranian government is requested to quash the death sentence issued against Dr Djalali and to grant him an unconditional release.
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Fourteen Senators Call On Trump To Toughen Sanctions On Iran
RFL/RE -Fourteen United States senators, led by Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Todd Young (R-IN), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, are asking President Donald Trump to impose tough new sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran for its ballistic missile program.
Read More »Iran, U.S. Trade Plunges In First Year Of Trump Presidency
RFL/RE – Trade between the U.S. and Iran declined significantly during first year of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Read More »Labor Activist Receives Short Reprieve After Stroke In Prison
RFL/RE – A day after dozens of prominent lawyers in Iran called for the immediate release of labor rights activist Reza Shahabi from prison, he was freed on bail for five days.
Read More »Iran MP Says There Is No Footage Of Protester Committing Suicide
Iran-hrm – Despite regime’s claims, member of parliament Alireza Rahimi has revealed there is no footage of Sina Ghanbari committing suicide in Evin prison.
Read More »Iran: Prison Officials Refuse Medical Treatment For Sick Prisoner
Iran-hrm – Ardebil central prison authorities have refused to send a sick prisoner to the infirmary or a health centre since the end of his hunger strike.
Read More »U.S. ‘Holding Iran To Account’ For Ailing Prisoner’s Health
RFL/RE – The United States says it is holding Iran responsible for the health of an 81-year-old Iranian-American man who was sent back to prison this week following a short medical leave.
Read More »Iranian Ayatollah’s visit to Israel-Lebanon border with Hezbollah causes uproar
Al-Arabia – A picture has surfaced showing a famous Iranian Ayatollah, al-Sayyed Ebrahim Raisi, who is also a member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts and is expected to be Ali Khamenei’s successor, visiting the border between Israel and southern Lebanon on a military tour. In the picture, Raisi, 58, is surrounded by Hezbollah military commanders and Iranian officers whose faces …
Read More »79th Number of Peace Line Monthly Was Published
HRANA News Agency – In the special case of the seventy-ninth issue of the “Peace Line Monthly, titled “Non-Regulatory Custodian”, the growing power of the Basij forces and its impact on society have been discussed.
Read More »Iran: Three activists on hunger strike after violent prison transfer
Amnesty – The Iranian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release human rights activists Atena Daemi, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee and her husband Arash Sadeghi, Amnesty International said today, amid reports all three have begun a hunger strike to protest the unlawful transfer of Atena Daemi and Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee to the dangerous Shahr-e Rey prison in Varamin outside Tehran. Shahr-e Rey …
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