Al-Arabia – Lebanon, which is crumbling as an Arab state and as a party with an Arab role, has become a place where the leaders of the security and military apparatus have turned into stars with the help of the security identity strengthened by Hezbollah. This identity has not been solidified in terms of confronting external dangers but in terms …

Al-Arabia – In a speech marking the 55th anniversary of the October 14 revolution, Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi stressed that he would never allow fighting between the southerners.

Iran-HRM – Eleven months after the devastating earthquake in November 2017, 30% of tenants in the quake-stricken areas continue to live on the streets, the mayor of Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran’s western province of Kermanshah admitted.

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Ebrahim Firouzi, held at Rajaie Shahr Prison, has been denied adequate medical access despite severe toothache. He has been imprisoned since 2014 without a single day of leave.

Iran-HRM -Iranian Activists call for abolition of the death penalty in Iran

Iran-HRM – The lives of multiple political prisoners are currently in danger as Iranian authorities are deliberately denying them adequate medical access. The authorities have a have a track record of denying prisoners medication, as a form of punishment. Political prisoners Majid Asadi, Arash Sadeqi, Hassan Sadeqi, Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi and Mohammad Habibi are among those denied treatment.

RFL/RE – Iranian President Hassan Rohani says the United States is seeking regime change in Tehran.

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)- Security forces in Tabriz arrested Azerbaijani activist Mohammad Abdolmohammad-Zadeh Namrour on Wednesday, October 10, 2018, and transferred him to an undisclosed location.

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Azerbaijani activist Abbas Lasani’s public dissent with the Iranian judicial system continued this week with his spurning, via open letter, of a second court subpoena that he decries as illegitimate. “I will not abide by the rule of tyranny, and thus I express my protest and rebellion against this illegal process, and against your …

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – After a month of interrogations, six citizens arrested by security agents in the city of Izeh on September 8th have been accused of “contact with the ‘Mahdaviat’ religious group” and transferred to Izeh prison in the southwestern province of Khuzestan.