Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – The Appellate Court of Tehran Province Branch 36 will convene October 25, 2018, to review the case of Mohammad Habibi, a teacher and union activist imprisoned since May 2018 for commemorating national teachers’ week.

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)- Authorities are botching the post-op course of imprisoned civil rights activist Arash Sadeghi, who underwent surgery for bone cancer on September 12th.

Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA) – As they make it past the two-week mark, Iranian trucker strikes look nowhere near relenting, and authorities are taking notice.

Shabtabnews – Numerous Iranian personalities and activists in various social, civil, economic, cultural, legal fields,  and human rights activists and civil rights activists, journalists,  jurists and thinkers, and political prisoners and their families, and women’s rights activists all have expressed concern about the health of Dr. Noor Ali Tabandeh and they have called for the ending of his illegal and inhuman …

Radiofarda – Nearly 280,000 have been killed and more than four million injured in car accidents in over a decade in Iran, says the Islamic Republic’s traffic police chief.

Radiofarda – The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to witness a rise in the amount of seized opium and opiates such as heroin or morphine, owing largely to its locationon the Golden Crescent, a drug pathway leading fromAfghanistan and Pakistan through Iran to Europeanmarkets.

Iran-HRM – Iran’s intelligence and security forces have rounded up and detained hundreds in Ahvaz, Khoramshahr, Sosangerd, and Abadan, in what appears to be an escalating crackdown in Iran’s Khuzestan province, following an attack on a military parade in the provincial capital, Ahvaz.

RFL/RE – The Iranian parliament has approved a bill aimed at bringing Iran’s laws in line with international standards and allowing the country to join the UN convention against the funding of terrorism, or CFT.

gatestoneinstitute.org – “The government often uses it [the charge of ‘acting against national security’] against converts instead of the charge of apostasy… in an attempt to avoid international scrutiny.” — Morning Star News, July 13, 2017.

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Judge Mehdi Shams of Sarab Revolutionary Court in East Azerbaijan Province has overruled Sahand Ma’ali’s objection to his 10-month prison sentence ruled in absentia.