Al-Arabia – A 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook southeastern Iran on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, Iranian state television reported.
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More Than A Thousand Arrests, NCRI Calls For Urgent Action To Release Prisoners
Iran-HRM – At least 1,000 protesters including PMOI supporters were arrested during the demonstrations in August, Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said.
Read More »Fears of Bloodbath in Syria’s Idlib as Russia, Turkey and Iran Meet
VOA – The leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran are scheduled to meet Friday in Tehran under the so-called Astana format to discuss the fate of the Syrian province of Idlib, the last rebel-held area of the country.
Read More »Urgent: Kurdish Political Prisoners in Imminent Danger of Execution
IRAN HUMAN RIGHT – Reports from Iran indicate that the Kurdish political prisoners Zanyar and Loghman Moradi are in imminent danger of execution. They have been transferred to the solitary confinements and their families have been asked to visit them today.
Read More »Prisoners in Iranian Baluchestan Brutally Tortured by IRGC Intelligence Unit
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – At the hands of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp’s Saravan Intelligence Unit, at least seven detainees have recently been subjected to torture.
Read More »Authorities deny familial visit between cancer-afflicted prisoner of conscience and his detained wife
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Arash Sadeghi and Golrokh Iraee, a husband-wife pair of civil rights activists currently serving time in separate prisons, have been denied the right to see each other despite Sadeghi’s recent diagnosis of chondrosarcoma.
Read More »Judiciary Bodies Withhold News of at Least Eight Executions
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – At least eight death row prisoners in Karaj’s Rajai Shahr Prison were executed in the early morning hours of Wednesday, September 5, 2018.
Read More »Welfare Reps Presence Required at Job Interviews for People with Disabilities
CHRI – New Requirement Meant to Address Employment Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities
Read More »Tehran summit to end Syrian war, says Iran media
Al-Monitor – The upcoming battle in Syria in the province of Idlib has been described as the last major battle between the Syrian government and opposition forces. With approximately 3 million residents in the rural area and home to opposition groups, some of which have relocated to the province after having struck a deal with the government, Idlib will determine …
Read More »Attack on Rouhani exposes deep crack among Iranian conservatives
Al-Monitor – New cracks are starting to appear in Iran’s conservative and religious establishment. The past two weeks or so have seen several prominent clerics voicing harsh criticism at Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi, a key ideologist and theoretician of the hard-line camp during the last two decades.
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