Regional Iranian Officials Order Strict Dress Code For Female Public Workers
RFL/RE - Iranian media say the governorate of the central city of Qom has issued a directive mandating female employees…
Human rights
Another Kolbar Killed by Border Forces in Western Iran
Iranwire - Iranian border forces have shot dead a transborder porter, or kolbar, in the western province of Kurdistan, according to…
Home Searches, Threats, Imprisonment: Baha’is in Iran Face Intensified Persecution
Iranwire - The Baha’i International Community (BIC) has denounced an “escalation and intensification” of the Iranian government’s “policy of systematic…
Baluch Fereydoun Nasirinejad Executed in Jiroft
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) - Fereydoun Nasirinejad, a Baluch man on death row for drug-related charges, was executed in Jiroft…
Ali Majidi Executed in Qazvin
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) - Ali Majidi, a man sentenced to death for murder, was executed in Qazvin Central Prison.…
4 Men Secretly Executed for Drug Charges in Birjand
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) - Four men including three Baluch minorities were secretly executed in Birjand Central Prison. According to…
Iran’s Infamous Chain Murders – in the Words of One of its Survivors
Iranwire - A quarter a century ago, in the fall of 1998, a series of murders rocked Iranian society. Iran…
Iranian Political Prisoner’s Phone Call Cut Off After He Mentioned “Torture”
Iranwire - The wife of Iranian political prisoner Yashar Tabrizi has denounced the abrupt termination of a phone call with…
Two Kurdish Sunni Clerics Arrested in Iran
Iranwire - Iranian security forces have arrested two Kurdish Sunni clerics in the northwestern district of Bukan, as the country’s…
Report: 122 Prisoners Executed in Iran in November
VOA - A new report by a human rights group which closely follows how many prisoners are executed in Iran…