Amnesty – A series of videos shared on social media in recent weeks have shed light on the daily harassment and violent attacks women in Iran face at the hands of morality police and pro-government vigilantes seeking to enforce the country’s forced hijab (veiling) laws, said Amnesty International. The videos show members of the public or plain-clothes morality police aggressively confronting or attacking …
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Iran: Shocking 33-year prison term and 148 lashes for women’s rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh
Amnesty – The sentencing of prominent Iranian human rights lawyer and women’s rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh to 33 years in prison and 148 lashes in a new case against her is an outrageous injustice, said Amnesty International today. The sentence, reported on her husband Reza Khandan’s Facebook page on 11 March, brings her total sentence after two grossly unfair trials …
Read More »Record corruption scandal puts spotlight on Iranians in Iran, US
Al-Monitor – Shortly after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s call on officials to uproot corruption, the Iranian judiciary announced perhaps the largest embezzlement case in the country’s history involving some 6.6 billion euros ($7.4 billion). Similar to other major embezzlement scandals in recent years — such as the one centered on businessman Babak Zanjani, who is now awaiting execution — the current case relates …
Read More »Iranian human rights lawyer Sotoudeh said to receive 38 years in prison
Al-Monitor – Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to 38 years in prison and will receive 148 lashes, according to her husband, Reza Khandan. Khandan posted on Facebook that Sotoudeh was sentenced in two separate cases — the first one resulting in a five-year prison sentence and the second in a 33-year sentence. There had been conflicting reports about her case. Iranian …
Read More »Do clothes make the woman? An Iranian artist’s search for identity
Al-Monitor – “Which of these faces is the real me as an Iranian woman?” That is the question the Berlin-based artist Mona Hakimi-Schueler posed more than a decade ago with a series of self-portraits depicting her in 20 different outfits ranging from a sundress to a chador. The paintings were inspired by debates in Germany over whether female teachers should be allowed to wear headscarves in classrooms. “I used to …
Read More »Iran finishes second at Sabre World Cup
PayvandNews – Iran finished in second place at the International Fencing Federation (FIE) men’s Sabre World Cup in Padua, Italy on Sunday.View image on Twitter FIE✔@FIE_fencing Korea won Iran in the final of men’s team sabre world cup in Padua went to Italy || #worldcup #fencing134:48 PM – Mar 10, 2019See FIE’s other TweetsTwitter Ads info and privacy Team Melli, …
Read More »Iran Issues Verdict On Detained U.S. veteran
Radiofarda – A verdict has been issued in the court case of a US navy veteran arrested in Iran last year on security and other charges, the official news agency IRNA reported Monday. “This case has both private and public plaintiffs… There are security charges in the case,” Gholamali Sadeghi, prosecutor for the city of Mashad, told IRNA, without disclosing …
Read More »Billionaire Iranian Football Sponsor On Trial For Financial Corruption
Radiofarda – The prosecutor in the corruption trial of a super-rich sponsor of major Iranian football (soccer) clubs, says one of the suspects in the case had opened 242 bank accounts within a day in his 8-year-old son’s name, Iranian news agencies reported. Hossein Hedayati an Iranian billionaire sponsor of football in court for corruption, , March 04, 2019. At …
Read More »Soleimani Receives Iran’s Highest Military Medal From Khamenei
Radiofarda – IRGC Qods Force Commander Qassem Soleimani has received Iran’s most prestigious medal of honor, the Order of Zulfiqar. Fars news agency reported on Sunday March 10 that The Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has awarded the medal but did not say when was Soleimani decorated. Soleimani is the first Iranian commander to receive the Order of …
Read More »Activists Lambast Khamenei For Appointing Controversial Judge
Radiofarda – More than 100 Iranian civil and political activists have described the appointment of hardline cleric Ebrahim Raeesi as Iran’s Judiciary Chief a sign of Islamic Republic Leader Ali Khamenei’s obstinacy and lack of respect for public opinion. The activists characterized Khamenei’s behavior as “rewarding criminals, aggravating the sad condition of the family members of the victims” of mass …
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