payvand.com : Nooshin Jafari’s Supporters Push Back Against Social Media Smear Campaign  Several members of Iran’s film industry have spoken out against the detention of Nooshin Jafari, a film and theater photographer, who has been detained at an undisclosed location in Tehran since August 4, 2019. The authorities have meanwhile refused to provide information about her to her family since …

voanews.com : A group of UN human rights experts on Friday called for the immediate release of three Iranian women given long jail terms for protesting laws compelling women to wear veils.  The trio were charged after a video posted online showed them handing out flowers on Tehran’s metro on March 8, International Women’s Day, according to a statement co-signed …

Al Arabiya : The US Justice Department unveiled a warrant on Friday for the seizure of the Iranian oil supertanker Grace 1, one day after a Gibraltar judge allowed the release of the detained vessel. The warrant says the vessel, all the oil aboard and $995,000 are subject to forfeiture based on violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act …

rferl.org : An Iranian supertanker seized six weeks ago by Gibraltar is being renamed and reflagged as it prepares to sail after the British overseas territory said it was free to leave. Jalil Eslami, deputy head of Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization, said on state television on August 16 that the Grace 1, which has been held by Gibraltar since …

rferl.org : Iranian human rights lawyer Guity Pourfazel wants to see change in her country and believes Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei should step down and the ruling clerical establishment be replaced with a democratic system. Pourfazel is one of 14 women activists in Iran who have publicly called for Khamenei to resign and for a new political system to …

rferl.org : The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Iran says there were “increasing restrictions” last year on rights to freedom of expression, liberty, and a fair trial in the country and he assailed Tehran for its high number of executions, including of at least seven children.Javaid Rehman’s comments came in a report — titled Situation Of Human Rights …

rferl.org : Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Iran on August 16 to release women detained for allegedly dressing as men to circumvent a ban on women attending football matches. Reports say six women have been detained since August 12, including Zahra Khoshnavaz, a prominent advocate for ending the ban on women attending public sporting events, and Forough Alaei, an …

radiofarda – Gibraltar media is reporting that the government has decided to release the Grace 1 Iranian supertanker after receiving formal written assurances from the government in Tehran that it would not discharge its cargo in Syria. “On that basis, Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Fabian Picardo has decided to lift the detention order and allow the ship to sail,” the the …

Radiofarda – A conservative news website in Iran published the leaked contents of a contract between the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and a private company, charging that the Ministry has outsourced book censorship. A copy of the contract leaked to social media on Monday, August 12, has gone viral, embarrassing Ministry officials. Every book needs to receive …

Radiofarda – Fourteen workers of the Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Industrial complex in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan, southwest Iran, stood trial on Wednesday, August 14, reports say. The workers are prosecuted for attending a one-hour protest gathering on May 9, to demand their rights, the independent labor union of the complex says. At the court, the fourteen responded to their …