X

Human rights

Twitter Campain in support of Nasrin Sotoudeh

eaworldview-The health of political prisoner and human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh (pictured), who is on hunger strike in Iran’s Evin…

Iranian Father Jailed For Nine Years For Beheading Teenage Daughter In ‘Honor’ Killing

RFL/RE - An Iranian man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for beheading his 14-year-old daughter with an…

Dervish Activists Reject Iran Official’s Claim Their Banishment to Poor Areas Is Not Deliberate

VOA - Activists of Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish religious minority who have been forced to live far from home after release…

Elderly Political Prisoner Arzhang Davoudi Held Incommunicado in SE Iran Prison

Iran-HRM - Years after sending political prisoner Arzhang Davoudi to exile in the prisons of Zabol and Zahedan, in Sistan…

Police Chief Denies Firing Shotgun Pellets At Protesting Villagers In Iran

Radiofarda - The Police Commander of Ahwaz, the capital of oil-rich Khuzestan Province, on Wednesday denied reports and evidence that…

Iranian musician Mehdi Rajabian arrested for working with women

BBC - Iranian musician Mehdi Rajabian says he is facing trial for working with female singers and dancers. The 30-year-old,…

China Buys Turkey’s Silence on Uyghur Oppression

thediplomat.com - While the United States has imposed sanctions on Chinese officials and companies complicit in the abuse of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities,…

Iran Lawmakers Aim To Fully Ban All ‘Foreign’ Messaging Apps

Radiofarda - Dozens of lawmakers in Iran have signed a motion to replace foreign messaging apps with domestically produced ones.…

Britain Waiting For US Permission To Pay Multi-Million Debt To Iran, Lawyers Of Jailed British Citizen Allege

Radiofarda - The lawyers of jailed British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe are alleging that the UK government has stalled payment of…

Tehran Council Member Says COVID-19 Killed More Than 10,000 In Capital

Radiofarda - A member of the Tehran City Council said on Sunday that Tehran’s COVID-19 death toll has risen to…