Where Is Your Kid? Iranians On Social Media Target Nepotism
RFL/RE - A newly launched social media campaign is pressuring Iranian officials to come clean about potential privileges their children…
Month: August 2018
Tehran Official: ‘Tsunami’ of Poverty Bearing Down on Iran
VOA - A municipal leader in the Iranian capital, Tehran, has issued a stark warning about Iran's economic problems, saying…
Death Row Prisoner Denied Medical Care in Sanandaj
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)- Gholamreza (Shoresh) Morovati, imprisoned in Sanandaj Central Prison, has been denied access to medical care…
Three Reports of Misconduct toward Political Prisoners in Urmia
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Last week, HRANA received three confirmed reports of misconduct to three political prisoners in…
Mother of Detained Activist Hears Her Son Being Beaten Over the Phone
CHRI - “Why is a Lonely, Elderly Mother Being Targeted Like This?” The mother of Farhad Meysami, a civil rights activist who has been…
Imprisoned Iranian Activist Rushed to Hospital, Husband Calls For Her Release
CHRI - Prominent Rights Defender Has Lost 16 Pounds in Short Time Span The husband of prominent Iranian political prisoner Narges…
Rouhani’s Telecom Minister Has Not Fulfilled Most of the Nine Pledges He Made Since Starting His Post
CHRI - Since Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi was approved by Iran’s Parliament as the minister of Information and Communications Technology…
Vets Unable To Save Asiatic Cheetah Cub Injured In Car Crash In Semnan, Iran
PayvandNews - The Asiatic cheetah cub which had been injured on August 7 in a car crash on Abbasabad-Mayami road,…
Iran Rights Advocate Spy Sentence Unlawful: Defense Team
Radiofarda - Lawyers for Iran's award-winning human rights advocate Nasrin Sotoudeh said Wednesday that her five-year sentence on spying charges…
Iran Minister Shocked By $250 Billion Of Import Requests
Radiofarda - Iran’s Minister of Industry, Mines and Business says, fluctuations in the local forex market in the past four…