Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Houshang Amirzadeh was executed for drug-related charges in Qazvin Central Prison. Mokhtar Sadeghi was returned to the general ward after obtaining an extension in his case. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Qazvin Central Prison on 8 June. His identity has been established as Houshang Amirzadeh who was …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Kambiz Barzekar and Malek Baluch Mahani, two Baluch men sentenced to death for drug-related charges in the same case, were executed in Kerman Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two Baluch men were executed in Kerman Central Prison on 6 June. Their identities have been established as 28-year-old Kambiz Barzekar (photo) …

VOA – Iran has changed government workers’ office hours in the summer to try to reduce energy consumption, but media reports say some employees are unhappy with the early start. The new working hours for the next three months, from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m., came into effect this week. They are intended to address problems the country faces during …

VOA – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is set to take off this weekend for a tour to Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, state media reported Wednesday. Raisi’s tour of “friendly countries” begins Sunday and aims to raise Iran’s “level of economic, political and scientific cooperation” with the three U.S.-sanctioned Latin American nations, the IRNA state news agency said. Iran and Venezuela …

RFL/RE – Billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist Richard Branson has called for Iranian authorities to release popular rapper Toomaj Salehi, whose health has reportedly deteriorated since he was arrested during Tehran’s clampdown on nationwide anti-government protests in October. “As his life hangs in the balance after 8 months+ of imprisonment and torture, we all must give our voice to him and …

Iranwire – Authorities in Tehran have put up banners in the streets showing what officials described as the Islamic Republic’s first domestically produced hypersonic ballistic missile and with Arabic and Hebrew captions reading “400 seconds…to Tel Aviv.”  The banners appeared in the Iranian capital after commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unveiled a new missile named Fattah, or …

Iranwire – She is one of the thousands of Iranians who were arrested during last year’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests and held for an extended period of time in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. In an interview with IranWire, she described the dehumanizing body searches that the protesters were subjected to in Ward 209. This young woman, who wished not to …

Iranwire – The Criminal Court of Tehran has handed down a 10-day prison sentence to renowned Iranian actor Shaghayegh Dehghan for “appearing in public streets without wearing a religious hijab,” or headscarf. Dehghan chose to pay a fine of 15 million rials ($30) instead of serving the prison term. Her lawyer, Kaveh Rad, said that the case was initiated by …

Iranwire – Nahid Taghavi, a 68-year-old German-Iranian national who has been arbitrarily detained in Tehran’s Evin prison for nearly 20 months has severe medical conditions that are putting her life in danger. A fellow inmate, prominent rights activist Narges Mohammadi, on June 4 raised alarm over Taghavi’s fate, saying the prisoner of conscience suffers excruciating pain and can “barely get …

Iranwire – A large crowd of mourners attended the funeral of Mansureh Sagvand, a former member of Iran’s police force who resigned in protest against the suppression of protesters. The ceremony took place on June 6 in the village of Rig Sefid, near the western city of Khorramabad, amid widespread reactions among Iranian social media users regarding her suspicious death. …