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Month: November 2018

Iran Says 5 Abducted Guards, Freed In Pakistan, Return Home

Radiofarda - Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps said five of the 12 border guards kidnapped last month by a separatist group…

Iran’s VP confirms organized crime funds enter banking system

Al-Arabia - The Iranian Vice President for Legal Affairs Laya Joneydi confirmed that funds collected from “organized crime” are integrated…

Iran’s ‘cyber attacks’ against US can cause damage, experts warn

Al-Arabia - As the United States completes its withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, security analysts warn of more frequent…

Women Political Prisoner Atena Daemi Summoned To Prosecutor’s Office

Iran-HRM - Atena Daemi held at the women’s ward of Evin Prison was verbally notified on November 13, 2018, by…

Iran Accuses 5 Activists Held in Labor Protest of Security Offenses

VOA - Five Iranian activists detained in southern Iran for participating in a two-week-long labor protest have been put under…

Iran: Mounting Crackdown on Teachers, Labor Activists

HRW  – Iranian authorities have increased targeting of teachers and labor activists in recent weeks for organizing and conducting peaceful protests, Human…

Conditional release of Iranian Human Rights Lawyer After 8 Years in Prison

Iran Human Right (IHR) - Prominent human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani was released earlier today after spending 8 years in…

Iran Executions: Three Men Hanged in Public- IHR Warns About a New Wave of Execution in the Coming Weeks

Iran Human Rights - Three prisoners were hanged in public at Iranian city of Shiraz this morning. Several children were…

Second Peaceful Teachers’ Strike in Iran Met With Arrests, Summons and Threats

CHRI - Iranian security and judicial authorities responded to the second round of peaceful teachers’ rights strikes by arresting and…

Iranian pension funds on brink absent major reforms

Al-Monitor - Successive Iranian administrations have in past decades, to various degrees, shown a tendency toward populist policies. This has…