Iran-HRM – The workers of the Ilam Petrochemical Plant were sentenced to prison and lashes on after being charged with “disrupting public order and peace” on October 14 by the 104th Branch of the Ilam Penal Court.

RFL/RE – Iranian security forces have detained 10 people suspected of links to a recent suicide attack in the country’s southeast, police say.

HRNA – The following is an overview of human rights violations in Iran on December 8th, 2018 based on the information compiled and verified by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRNA).

Iran Human Rights (IHR) –  12 prisoners were hanged at Kerman Central Prison Thursday morning.

CHRI – Detained labor activists Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh Gholian were beaten during interrogations at the Intelligence Ministry’s detention center in the Iranian city of Shush, Khuzestan Province, according to relatives who visited them on December 4, 2018.

PayvandNews – Iran’ men’s and women’s futsal teams have been nominated for the best national team in the world. The Iranian outfits won the AFC Futsal Championship and are vying with eight other teams to win the UMBRO Futsal Award 2018.

Radiofarda – Iran’s influential Guardian Council (GC) has pressed charges against Tehran’s outspoken MP, Mahmoud Sadeghi, who has accused the council of “financial corruption”, GC’s spokesman disclosed on Friday, December 6.

Al-Arabia – The State Department is warning the life of an imprisoned Iranian human rights activist is in imminent danger.

Iran-HRM – Asal Mohammadi, a labor activist and a student at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Azad University of Tehran, was arrested at her home by security forces on Tuesday, December 4, 2018, and transferred to Branch One of the Prosecutor’s Office in Evin Prison. 

Iran-HRM – Hengameh Vahedian, daughter of rights’ activist, Abbas Vahedian, addressed the European Union representatives and Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, Mr. Javaid Rehman, regarding her father who have been imprisoned since October 11.