Iran-HRM – Disturbing video showing being flogged in public on July 24, 2018, has obtained from inside Iran.

Iran-HRM – Two women from Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish religious minority, Elham Ahmadi and Sedigheh Safabakht, have been sentenced each to five years in jail by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. They have been detained since 20 February following the violent dispersal of a protest held by Gonabadi Derivshes in Tehran.

RFL/RE – The United States is not after regime change in Iran, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has said.

Iran Human Rights – Out of four prisoners who were transferred to the solitary confinement on July 25 for execution, at least one was executed at Urmia Central Prison on drug-related charges. The execution of one prisoner was stopped, and there is no information regarding the fate of the two other prisoners yet.

Iran Human Rights – At least two prisoners were transferred to the solitary confinement in order to be executed on drug-related charges. Some sources stated that the number of the prisoners was four.

CHRI – Rap artist Shah Baloch, real name Emad Bijarzehi, has been detained in the southeastern Iranian port city of Chabahar without counsel since June 20, 2018, for singing about state oppression against ethnic Baluchis in Sistan and Baluchistan Province.

Radiofrada – The head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Commander-in-Chief Mohammad Ali Jafari, says, “Weaknesses and threats originating from inside Iran are more serious than threats from abroad.”

Radiofarda – The latest official statistics show that 19 million Iranian homeless live in slums on the outskirts of major cities. The figure comes from a recent report released by the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development. Ministry head Abbas Akhoundi has cited the figure of 19 million urban homeless in the past, a number that represents nearly 24 percent …

Radiofrada – A group of Republican senators on Thursday warned European nations not to try to flout U.S. sanctions on Iran that will soon be re-imposed after President Donald Trump withdrew from a landmark nuclear accord.

Iran-HRM – The Leading Human Rights Violators in Iran’s Rajaei Shahr Prison Rajaei Shahr Prison, located in the city of Karaj, is among the most deplorable prisons in Iran. According to Iran’s Prisons Organization, Rajaei Shahr is intended to hold detainees convicted of violent crimes. Despite this, for years the Iranian authorities have been using Rajaei Shahr to exile prisoners …