Iran-HRM – On the 43rd day of his hunger strike which has turned dry since three days ago, political prisoner Soheil Arabi is in critical conditions and his life is in danger.

Iran-HRM – On the morning of Wednesday March 7, the death sentence for a Kurd man from Sivan in Ilam was carried out in the Central Ilam Prison. He was identified as 22-year-old Ayoub Babakhani. Ayoub was sentenced to death three years ago on charges of murdering a person close to him.

RFL/RE – Several women who had attempted to gather in Tehran to mark International Women’s Day have been detained, reports said. Women’s rights activists had announced that they would stage a peaceful protest outside the Labor Ministry in the Iranian capital on March 8 to call for more rights. “On this one day, out of an entire year, we as …

RFL/RE – The widow of an Iranian-Canadian environmentalist who died in a Tehran prison last month in disputed circumstances has been prevented from leaving the country, her two sons have said.

RFL/RE – Pakistan, Iran, and nations in the Middle East are among the countries that are least likely to have job opportunities for women, resulting in high rates of female unemployment there, the United Nations has found.

RFL/RE – An Iranian woman who removed her Islamic head scarf on a Tehran street has been sentenced to two years in prison, local media report.

VOA – A magnitude 5.4 earthquake hit southeast Iran on Wednesday evening, state media said. The epicenter of the earthquake was about 14 km (9 miles) away from the town of Kahnooj in Kerman province, state media reported. There were no immediate reports of any dead or injured, or any property damage. Two teams from the local chapter of the …

CHRI – Death Sentence Struck Down Twice by Supreme Court Mohammad Ali Taheri, the founder of a mystical Shiite spiritual group in Iran, has been sentenced to five years in prison for a second time, this time for the charge of “corruption on earth,” his lawyer Zeinab Taheri told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). “Since Mr. Taheri …

CHRI – Sadegh Zibakalam, a Tehran-based reformist political analyst and academic known for his criticisms of Iranian state policies, has been fined for telling a foreign newspaper that the majority of Iranians do not support the Islamic Republic.

Al-Monitor – Iran continues to face obstacles in silencing its armed opponents in Iraqi Kurdistan, where authorities recently offered Tehran assurances to prevent Iranian Kurdish militants from causing tension with Tehran. At 4 p.m. March 1 in Binaslawa town just outside Erbil, Salah Rahmani, a veteran peshmerga forces commander with the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), got into his …