Iran-HRM – Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said in the 30th Council of the Deputy Heads of Courts that 150 indictments were issued for defendants charged with participating in the recent unrest. He also said that 10 sentences were issued by Tehran Revolutionary Court branches. “The prison sentences range from one to five years of prison and the other cases …

Iran -HRM -A detained Kurd student from Kermanshah, Saied Eqbali, who was arrested by security forces on February 1 in his home in Kermanshah is under pressure by security institutions to make forced confessions.

Iran-HRM – The Deputy Prosecutor of the Khorasan Razavi Public and Revolutionary Court, Judge Hasan Heidari, said that a divorced couple who were members of dissident groups and had lit fire to a mosque were arrested.

RFL/RE – A top U.S. military commander expressed the Pentagon’s continued support for Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers, hours after the announced departure of U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, a top defender of the deal in the U.S. administration.

RFL/RE – Iran on March 13 jailed Hamid Baghai, a vice president under former hard-liner Mahmud Ahmadinejad, following his conviction for corruption, Iranian media reports said.

Al-Arabia – Hezbollah on Tuesday denied Farda News’ report quoting the party’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah as saying that the guardianship of the Islamic jurist (Vilayat-e Faqih) is above the Lebanese constitution and it’s mandatory to implement its orders.

VOA – It is unclear how Mike Pompeo becoming U.S. secretary of state may affect the Iran nuclear deal.

IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS – The 10th annual report on the death penalty in Iran by Iran Human Rights (IHR) and ECPM shows that in 2017 at least 517 people were executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This number is comparable with the execution figures in 2016 and confirms the relative reduction in the use of the death penalty compared …

CHRI – The family of a man who died in police custody in Iran intends to sue judicial authorities for burying him without their permission the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. Their attorney, Arash Keykhosravi, told CHRI that Mohammad Raji’s body was transferred by ambulance from Tehran 242 miles south to Aligoudarz, in Lorestan Province, where …

CHRI – JOINT PUBLIC STATEMENT The Iranian authorities should end their cruel campaign of harassment and intimidation against the families of detainees who have died in detention under suspicious circumstances, Amnesty International, the Centre for Human Rights in Iran, Human Rights Watch and Justice for Iran said today.