Iran-HRM – Only two days remain before Sepanta Niknam is dismissed from the Yazd City Council for being Zoroastrian. However, the Expediency Council remains silent about this issue. The first meeting of the Expediency Council will be held after the Nowruz holiday two days after his dismissal. Therefore, under the excuse of Nowruz holidays, the case has been announced as …

Iran-HRM – Zeinab Jalalian, a Kurd political prisoner who has been sentenced to life in prison and is detained in Khoy Prison, has lost the ability to eat for the past few days due to a digestive problem. Her medicine strike has also led to her deteriorating health. According to a close source, due to the fact that she was …

HRM – According to reports, on the morning of Sunday March 4, a prisoner charged with murder was hanged in Maragheh Prison. The prisoner was identified as Jalil Khademi. Khademi was detained in 2014 and was from the town of Marand in East Azarbaijan Province.

RFL/RE – Syria and its ally Russia have accused Israel of staging an overnight missile strike on a Syrian military air base, as tension rises amid international outrage over a suspected chemical attack that left dozens of people dead in the rebel-held town of Douma outside Damascus.

RFL/RE – Iranian President Hassan Rohani has warned that Washington “will regret it” if the United States violates a 2015 deal between Tehran and global powers to curb Iran’s nuclear program. “We will not be the first to violate the accord but they should definitely know that they will regret it if they violate it,” Rohani said at a conference …

VOA – U.S. President Donald Trump has blamed his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and Russia, as well Iran, for enabling an alleged poisonous attack in Syria late Saturday. Syrian activists and medical sources say at least 40 people have died. The suspected chlorine attack came during a government offensive to retake rebel-held areas near Damascus after the collapse of a …

HRANA News Agency – Mohammad Nazari, a political prisoner in Orumieh prison, suffers from gallbladder disease. He had been sent to hospital with prosecutor’s permission in recent days, but he has been transferred to prison for recurrence of illness and the diagnosis of doctors said that he should undergo a surgery.

HRANA News Agency – Mohammad Reza Sobhkhiz, prisoner in Tabriz central prison, has been on hunger strike for over twenty days. He is held in ward 12 of Tabriz central prison since 8 years ago because general criminal offenses. Mohammad Reza Sobhkhiz is deprived of his freedom despite the end of his impressment due to repayments and the private plaintiff. The …

Radiozamaneh – Head of Iranian Parliament’s Women’s Faction reports that their faction has been investigating the protests against compulsory hijab in Iran that started as of December 2017. She added that sessions to review these protests, where a number of sociologists as well as representatives of the judiciary and the executive branch will be in attending are underway. Parvaneh Salahshouri …

CHRI – A popular exhibition by the Louvre Museum in Paris at the National Museum of Iran has come under criticism because it is inaccessible to people living with disabilities.