HRWF  – Since 20th February 2018, Dr Noorali Tabandeh, the head spiritual leader of the Gonabadi Sufi order in Iran with approximately 10 million followers, has been under house arrest. This was revealed by himself during a short video clip. In this short video recording dated 6th March he sends his greeting to the Dervishes and Muslims and the people …

Radiofarda – One week after the Rouhani administration announced the government-imposed rate of 42,000 rials against every US dollar, chaos and ambiguity in Iran’s foreign exchange market continue. In an attempt to control the free fall, the Rouhani administration announced an imposed rate of 42,000 rials to the U.S. dollar April 10, in addition to other protective measures. Some street …

Iran-HRM – According to reports, a Tehran appeals court sentenced three men identified as Alireza Tavakoli, Mohammad Mehdi Zamanzadeh and Mohammad Mohajer for expressing their beliefs on Facebook and Telegram to five years of prison on charges of acting against national security and blasphemy. A source close to these three internet activists said that they had been detained in Evin …

Iran-HRM – At around 3 am, on Sunday April 15, agents of the Intelligence Agency raided farmers’ home in Khorasgan in Isfahan and detained a number of them. Reports indicate that 10 farmers were detained during the raid. According to a source a number of those arrested were identified by the police for only being present in the Khorasgan area …

Iran-HRM – Reports indicate that a Baluch man identified as Nasir Jat who had filmed security force trying to take a bribe from a gasoline tanker driver was arrested on Tuesday April 10. The man had also filmed the violent arrest of the driver by the police.

Iran-HRM -According to reports, the car of a Kurd merchant from Marivan, identified as Rahman Jamshidi from Seif Alia Village, overturned after he was chased by government military forces. He was severely injured as a result. The Kurd merchant passed away on April 14 after a few days of hospitalization due to the severity of his injuries.

Iran-HRM – Detained civil rights activist Atena Daemi, who was detained last February was illegally sent to Qarchak Prison along with political prisoner Golrokh Iraee. Daemi went on a hunger strike to protest the transfer. She is now suffering from medical ailments due to prison conditions and pressure. A neurologist has diagnosed her condition as poor but judicial officials prevent …

RFL/RE – Meeting in Luxembourg, EU foreign ministers strongly defended the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers and declined to impose new sanctions against Iran over its role in the Syrian conflict.

AL-Arabia – Three “terrorists” and three members of the Iranian security forces were killed during night-time clashes along Iran’s border with Pakistan, state news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday. “At 0130 this morning (2100 GMT Monday], a terrorist group from Pakistan attacked” a police post in the border area of Mirjaveh, around 75 kilometres southeast of Zahedan, the capital of …

HRANA News Agency – At the request of a number of human rights defenders, Atena Daemi has stopped her hunger strike after 13 days, 6 days of which were dry hunger strike. However, Glorokh Iraei has announced that she would stop her dry hunger strike (not drinking fluids), but would continue her hunger strike by drinking water. According to the …