HRW – This week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations’ Court, held hearings on a case Iran has brought against the United States. Iran is arguing that because the US withdrew from the nuclear agreement and is unilaterally imposing economic sanctions, the US has violated the terms of the 1955 Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights, known …

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Last week, Arash Sadeghi, civil rights activist detained in Rajai Shahr Prison, was transferred to a hospital to undergo medical testing after he was recently diagnosed with a bone tumor. The test results have shown that he is suffering from a malignant tumor by the name of chondrosarcoma, a close source told HRANA.

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Three Baluchi political prisoners exiled to the northwestern city of Ardabil wrote an open letter in critique of the Iranian authorities and to raise public awareness about the plight of their people.

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)- On Wednesday, August 29, 2018, Great Tehran Penitentiary guards used batons, electrical shock, and tear gas to break up a sit-in of *Dervish prisoners that had been in effect in Ward 3 since June 13th.

Iran Human Rights – Today the three lawyers of Ramin Hossein Panahi, death-row prisoner, reported that he went on a hunger strike and sewed his lips and warned about the risk of him being executed in the next few days. Iran Human Rights calls on the international community to react immediately and try to stop and annul the death sentence …

Iran Human Rights – On August 20, Iranian state-run media, IRIB, broadcast the confessions of two young men named Mohammad Ostadqader and Houshmand Alipour, 24 and 25 years old, both confessing to conducting an armed operation in Iran. 

Al-Monitor – After making an unannounced trip to Turkey, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted on Aug. 29, “Just finished fruitful consultations with Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu and President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan on bilateral relations and regional cooperation in the face of malign US behavior. Off to Pakistan tomorrow to meet with new leadership. Our neighbors our priority.” The tweet was …

Al-Monitor – The Iranian government is trying to address the issue of uneven economic development, which is most obvious in border regions, by creating more economic free zones. In pursuit of this aim, a bill proposing the establishment of eight new economic-industrial free zones and 12 special economic zones (SEZ) was submitted to parliament in 2016. The text was just approved by lawmakers Aug. 29 after the number of SEZ was increased to 69 earlier this …

PayvandNews – A prominent U.S. human rights activist and the international attorney of Iranian-U.S. dual citizens Baquer and Siamak Namazi has linked his clients’ case to the Iran-U.S. Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights.

IranHRM – The status of two young women arrested during the recent protests in Tehran has remained in limbo in the Qarchak Prison of Varamin.