Month: December 2018

Detained Protester Reportedly Tortured as Iranian Sugar Mill Workers Demand Unpaid Wages

CHRI - Detained labor activist Esmail Bakhshi was hospitalized after being tortured under interrogation, according to Iranian labor sources. (more…)

CHRI - An Iranian Appeals Court upheld a one-year prison sentence against Kiumars Eslami for his alleged separatist “pan-Turkish” activities,…

CHRI - Dozens of conservation practitioners and scholars, including renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, have issued an impassioned defense of eight…

CHRI - Davoudi Eighth Human Rights Attorney to Be Jailed in Iran in Last Six Months (more…)

CHRI - An unknown number of university academics, including a dual national, who allegedly researched state population policies have been…

Al-Monitor - Smuggling in general and fuel smuggling in particular have continuously undermined the Iranian economy for a long time.…

Radiofarda - Iran is facing "chronic challenges" that existed long before US sanctions were reimposed, the influential parliament speaker Ali…

Radiofarda - Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi has advised the French government and police “to be self-restrained” in dealing…

Radiofarda - Iran's Economic Coordination Council has forecast a more than 50 percent decline in the country's oil sales in…

Radiofarda - Iran backs U.N.-sponsored Yemen peace talks, Iranian state TV reported on Monday, saying Tehran was ready to help…