Iran Human Rights (IHR) –  According to Article 156 of the Iranian Constitution: “The Judiciary shall be an independent power that protects individual and social rights”. However, Article 157 of the Constitution undermines the impartiality and independence of the judiciary and states: “The Head of the Judiciary is directly appointed and supervised by the Supreme Leader”, who under the Constitution is the Head of …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – At least six prisoners on death row for drug-related charges, were transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions in Urmia Central Prison hours ago. The families of the prisoners gathered in protest outside the prison after paying their last visits. According to Iran Human Rights, at least six male men were transferred to …

shabtabnews – In a statement IOPHR urged immediate Action by government Bosnia Herzegovina to Protect the Life of Mr. Amir Labbaf . Mr. Amir Labbaf, is an Iranian asylum seeker based in the Sadr camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been on a hunger strike since the 28th March in order to protest the lack of security and medical care …

gatestoneinstitute.org – “The Biden administration appears to be using loopholes when dealing with the Iranian regime. I am again asking direct, yes or no questions on the United States’ involvement in facilitating a South Korean ransom payment to Iran. If the Biden administration is involved in transferring funds to Iran, Congress and the American people must be informed. Biden administration …

RFL/RE – Iran’s Foreign Ministry rejects any “step-by-step” lifting of sanctions imposed against it, the state-funded Press TV quoted the ministry’s spokesman as saying on April 3. “The definitive policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran is the lifting of all U.S. sanctions,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in an interview with Press TV. U.S. State Department deputy spokeswoman …

VOA – As Iran marks the 42nd anniversary of a referendum that helped to solidify its 1979 Islamic Revolution, there is growing talk inside and outside the country of a need for another referendum to spur change, but little agreement about who should conduct such a vote and how. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s first Islamist supreme leader who seized power …

Iran-HRM – Rashed Torkamani who was injured by the state forces in a southern Iranian port, was arrested after referring to a hospital for his wounds. The intelligence agents arrested Rashed Torkamani yesterday when he was leaving a hospital in Bandar Abbas and transferred him to an unknown location. Marine forces in the town of Sirik opened fire on Baluch fuel carriers …

Iran-HRM – More than a month after the protests in Saravan over the killing of Baluch fuel traders, the fate of at least 16 Baluch citizens arrested and their families are worried about their conditions. Some of those arrested have been taken to the detention centers in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan and Baluchistan Province, while the whereabouts of a …

Al-Monitor – In part as a result of the Biden administration’s shifting policies toward Iran and Washington’s decision to temporarily freeze and review weapons sales to Saudi Arabia over the Yemeni war, Ankara is aiming to turn Saudi Arabia’s growing international isolation to Turkey’s advantage. Some Syrian opposition sources claim Turkey might transfer Syrian fighters to Yemen to fight alongside the Saudi-led coalition against …

Iran-HRM – On the eve of the Persian new year, many political prisoners and dissidents were not only denied Nowruz leave, but they were exposed to additional pressure. Several political prisoners including peaceful activists and dissidents were sent to remote prisons as a form of additional punishment in the middle of their prison terms.   Iranian judicial authorities, while putting …