Iran-HRM – Eleven detainees of the nationwide uprising in Dec. 2017-Jan. 2018 of Arak city’s Shazand region were put on trial on May 14, 2018 at branch 102 of Arak’s penal court.

During past few days, branch one of Kalat Naderi penal court in Khorasan Razavi Province (east of Iran) has sentenced Alireza Sepahi Laeen, a Kurd writer and poet to receive 74 lashes for “offending the officials.”

RFL/RE – A violent protest in the city of Kazeroon in southwestern Iran has left at least one person dead and six others injured, Iranian media report. Esmail Tabadar, the governor of the province of Fars, where Kazeroon is located, confirmed the death of one protester in a May 17 interview with the semiofficial ISNA news agency. Tabadar said that …

RFL/RE – French energy giant Total has joined other major European companies in saying they will exit Iran unless U.S. sanctions are waived, casting a shadow over efforts by European leaders to salvage the Iran nuclear deal. EU leaders at a summit in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia late on May 16 reaffirmed their commitment to trying to keep the …

Al-Arabia – US President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the Iran nuclear deal may have pleased most in the Gulf region but it is beginning to have an impact further afield – more precisely in India and to some extent in Pakistan.

Al-Arabia – After months of speculations, finally President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear dealformally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

CHRI – The Mother of a Toddler Has Been Serving a Five-Year Prison Sentence Since 2016 Already serving a five-year prison sentence on trumped-up espionage charges in Tehran’s Evin Prison, Iranian British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is now facing the prospect of more time behind bars.

CHRI – State-funded publishers at Iran’s May 2018 Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) were permitted to offer dozens of books disparaging the Baha’i faith, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. 

CHRI -Iran is facing a looming deadline to present its response to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) a year after the UN body gave the Iranian government three recommendations for upholding and protecting the rights of the country’s disabilities community.

Al-Monitor – President Donald Trump’s May 8 decision to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has caused international debate on Iran to be mostly focused on the implications of the US move — including the future of the nuclear deal. Yet given the recent and ongoing developments in Syria amid Iran’s active involvement there, the potential of …