Iran-HRM – Baluch rapper Imad Bijarzai, known as “Shah Baluch”, transferred to the section one of the Zahedan Central Prison. There was no news about him for about one month.

Iran-HRM – A prominent lawyer in Iran Nasrin Sotoudeh faced a new charge for her peaceful anti-death penalty activities with the “LEGAM” Campaign (Step by step for abolition of the death penalty). Speaking to the state-run Iran Students News Agency (ISNA), her husband Reza Khandan said, the judiciary summoned Nasrin Sotoudeh to the second Branch of the Evin Court. “They …

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – HRANA has obtained verified audio excerpts of conversations between Iranian Parliament member Salman Khodadadi and the women whom he allegedly sexually abused. The conversations are in the Turkic/Azeri language (the video includes a Persian translation), HRANA has provided an English translation below:

Iran Human Rights –  A prisoner was executed at Mashhad Prison on murder charges. According to a report by Khorasan Newspaper, on the morning of Monday, July 16, a prisoner was executed at Mashhad Prison. The prisoner, identified as GholamAli, 41, was convicted of murder during a fight at a wedding. According to the source, the prisoner was on the …

Iran Human Rights –  On July 2, a prisoner named Vahid Moradi was murdered during a gang fight in ward 1 of Rajai Shahr Prison. Following the incident, seven prisoners were taken to the police station for investigation. 

CHRI – Ramin and Mehran Seyed-Emami have sued Iran’s state-run TV, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), for slandering their father Kavous Seyed-Emami, who died under suspicious circumstances in Tehran’s Evin Prison in February 2018.

Al-Monitor – Alexander Lavrentiev, President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy for Syria, traveled to Tehran July 18 to update the Iranians on the results of the much-publicized summit between the American and Russian presidents in Helsinki earlier in the week. Lavrentiev reportedly met for two hours with Saeed Irvanii, deputy for foreign policy and international security of the Supreme National Security …

Radiofarda – Tehran’s prosecutor Jafari Dolatabad says verdicts have been issued against 258 Iranian dervishes of the Gonabadi order, state-run news agency IRNA reported July 17.

Radiofarda – A U.S. delegation of Treasury and State Department officials will meet Turkish authorities on Friday to discuss sanctions targeting Iran, an official from Turkey’s foreign ministry said.

Radiofarda – US Ambassador Nikki Haley on Wednesday described the Human Rights Council as the “greatest failure” of the United Nations as she defended the US decision to quit the UN body.