Iran: Prisoner Executed for Rape
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - A prisoner sentenced to death on rape charges, has been executed in Mashhad Central Prison.…
Month: May 2021
Raisi, Larijani likely top candidates for Iran’s presidential election
Al-Monitor - Iran’s Guardian Council held its second meeting May 19 to review the qualifications of 592 candidates who registered to…
IAEA says talks with Iran continue as monitoring deal set to expire
Reuters - The U.N. nuclear watchdog is still in talks with Iran on how to proceed with a three-month monitoring…
Mohammad Davoudzadeh Loloei, a Terror Plot and Lessons Europe Learned
Iranwire - On September 28, 2018, reporters across Europe’s Scandinavian countries filed an urgent dispatch: “In an operation unprecedented since…
Translator Fired for Reporting Brother’s Torture by Basij
Iranwire - Roozbeh Piri, a translator and civil rights activist in Tabriz, has been fined for publishing a post on…
Corpses on the Snow: Journalist Remembers Khomeini’s Blessing for 1979 Execution
Iranwire - On Saturday, May 15, IranWire published an audio file related to the shooting of four former generals of the Pahlavi…
Iran arrests 16 Ahwazi Arabs including elderly mother of slain protester
Iran-HRM - Iran arrests 16 Ahwazi Arabs including elderly mother of slain protester Iranian authorities have embarked on a wave…
For Iran’s Lawyers, Defending Dissidents Is Getting Dangerous (Commentary Published in World Politics Review)
CHRI - In 1985, my parents were taken to court in Tehran by a tenant who was trying to stop…
As Iran’s election campaign picks up, boycott gains momentum as well
Al-Monitor - Over 230 dissidents and civil society activists in Iran have called on fellow citizens to boycott the country's…
Bahrain probes $1.3bn Iranian money laundering network
arabnews - Bahrain’s attorney general said that public prosecutors had uncovered a $1.3 billion money laundering racket linked to officials…