RFL/RE – A detained British-Iranian aid worker jailed in Iran is to face a second trial on new security charges, the Tehran Revolutionary Court’s head Musa Ghazanfarabadi was quoted as saying on May 26.
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Sufi Bus Driver on Death Row in Iran Denies Killing Policemen in Audio File Released by Lawyer
CHRI – Mohammad Salas’ Attorney Zeynab Taheri Summoned to Court to Face Charges The lawyer of Tehran-based death row prisoner Mohammad Salas has released an audio file in which he denies driving the bus that killed three policemen in Tehran in February 2018.
Read More »Vigilante Groups Disrupt Reformist Party Congress In Tehran
Radiofarda – Vigilante groups in Tehran have disrupted reformist National Trust Party congress Friday, May 25, to prevent the reinstating of Mehdi Karroubi, as the party’s leader.
Read More »Bipartisan Amendment Rules Out Strike On Iran Without Congressional Authorization
Radiofarda – A bipartisan amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act passed by the House of Representatives on Thursday May 24, stated Congress’s position that no law exists which gives the US president the power to launch a military strike against Iran.
Read More »Civil Activist Summoned To The Culture & Media Court
Iran-HRM – Based on a subpoena received by Mehrdad Garivani on May 16, 2018, he must go to branch 2 of interrogation office of Culture & Media Court in five days to offer his last defense. He refused and announced: “I believe that a government that is based on theft, corruption and treason towards its people has no right to …
Read More »Defensless Border Porter Shot And Dead By Agents
Iran-HRM – A young border porter from Urmia was killed when Iran’s armed forces shot at him on Sunday morning, May 20, 2018. He is identified as Maysam Karim Ali, 27 and father of three girls.
Read More »NAJA Confronts Café Nets Using Anti-Filters
Iran-HRM – Mehdi Mir-Mehdi the head of Tehran’s Computer Techs Guild Union cited the increase in use of anti-filters during these days and said: “The new chief of site-police of NAJA has notified the union about the regulations of prohibition of using VPN and anti-filters in café nets.”
Read More »Young Baluch Men Killed In Rock-Throwing Attack By The State Police
Iran-HRM – The state police threw stones at a vehicle on Friday morning which caused a car crash, leaving two young Baluch men killed in Lirdof village in Hormozgan Province (southern Iran).
Read More »Iran Environmental Activists Sentenced To 18 Months Behind Bars
Iran-HRM – Hamed Sepehri and Jafar Ebrahimi, two environmental activists from Bukan, northwest Iran, were sentenced to 18 months behind bars in the Urmia court on May 5th, on charges of “spreading propaganda against the state.”
Read More »Trump Says China’s ZTE Given A Reprieve Over Iran Sanctions Violations
RFL/RE – The U.S. government has reached a deal to put Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corp back in business after penalties imposed over Iran sanctions violations forced the company to shut down operations, U.S. officials and congressional aides said.
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