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Month: March 2018

Iran’s Basij Force attack students protesting imprisonment of classmates

Al-Arabia - Basij militias affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards attacked students who gathered in the campus of Amirkabir University…

Iranian opposition newspaper shares statistics on recent protests

Al-Arabia - An Iranian opposition newspaper shared “an unpublished report” sent by Interior Minister Abdel Ridha Rahmani to President Hassan…

Iran sentences unnamed British-Iranian to six years for spying

Al-Arabia - An unnamed British-Iranian national has been sentenced to six years in prison on spying charges, the official news…

11 Killed in Private Turkish Plane Crashes in Iran

VOA - All 11 people aboard a private Turkish jet died Sunday after the jet crashed into a mountainside and…

IRAN: ENTRENCHED HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES MUST END

Amnesty - Oral statement at the 37th session of the UN Human Rights Council (26 February - 23 March 2017).…

Iran’s poorest citizens still waiting for some semblance of parity after 39 years

Al-Monitor - When the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran took place, its overriding objective was social justice achieved through helping…

Russia says Iran to become Eurasian Economic Union member in May

PayvandNews - Russia says Iran could join an emerging economic bloc that it leads as early as May in a…

Iran: 60 Partygoers Detained In A Night Party In Mashhad

Iran-HRM - The State police raided a night party, arresting 60 people including 22 young men and 38 women in…

Hunger Striking Political Prisoner Golrokh Iraee In Critical Health

Iran-HRM - Detained civil rights activist, Golrokh Iraee, who is kept in Qarchak prison in Varamin, is still on hunger strike after…

Man Publicly Flogged In Southern Iran

Iran-HRM -A man was publicly flogged outside a hospital in Sirjan, in Kerman Province, southern Iran. The news was published…