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Iranian Police Shut Down 800 Stores Selling ‘Inappropriate’ Clothing
RFL/RE – Iranian media reported that police have shut down more than 800 clothing stores across the country for selling “unconventional and inappropriate” attire — believed to mean Western-style outfits and women’s clothing that doesn’t meet strict Islamic requirements. The reports on September 5 said the raids took place over a 10-day span after authorities first sent official warnings to …
Read More »Unidentified Prisoner Hanged in Northwestern Iran for Murder
Iranhr.net – An unidentified 22-year-old prisoner was hanged on murder charges in Ardabil Central Prison. The death sentence for an unidentified 22-year-old prisoner, who was charged with the murder of a physician, was reportedly carried out at Ardabil Central Prison on the morning of Saturday September 3. Iranian state-run news agency Mizan confirmed the execution, quoting Nasser Atabati, Ardabil’s public …
Read More »Labor Activists Put on Trial After Hundreds of Workers Protest Unpaid Wages
Iranhumanrights.org – Labor activists Jafar Azimzadeh and Shapour Ehsani-Rad have been put on trial for allegedly inciting workers to strike. The first day of their trial was held on August 29, 2016 at Branch 101 of the Second Criminal Court in the city of Saveh, 76 miles southwest of Tehran. “This case doesn’t have any legal foundation,” an informed source …
Read More »Prominent Activist Freed In Iran
RFL/RE – Prominent student activist and women’s rights advocate Bahareh Hedayat has been released in Iran after spending more than six years in jail, her husband says. Amin Ahmadian,announced Hedayat’s release in a post on Instagram where he said he couldn’t believe that she was finally free. Hedayat was among scores of activists, intellectuals, and reformist figures who were arrested …
Read More »Families of Executed Sunni Prisoners; Targets of Authorities’ Harassments
HRANA News Agency – After mass execution of at least 20 Sunni prisoners in Rajaei Shahr on August 1st, some of their family members were witnessed they are buried, now these families are stuck in a disturbing game and left in bewilderment. Some officials in Behsht-e-Zahra (cemetery) told these families who went to request for some service related to the …
Read More »Written Warning of Attorney General of Golestan Province to the Media
HRANA News Agency – Attorney general of Golesatan province warned editors of news and social websites about “discriminatory and irresponsible” context and emphasized that if such case is being identified, these media will be banned and they will face the consequences. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Seyed Mostafa Haghi, general attorney of common and …
Read More »Amanj Vaisi; Death Row Juvenile Offender in Marivan Prison
HRANA News Agency – Amanj Vaisi, juvenile offender who was arrested and sentenced to death on charge of murder when was 15, is still being held in prison in Marivan after 10 years in the shadow of death. He is not a child any more. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Amanj Vaisi was born …
Read More »No human rights rapporteur warranted on Iran: Official
PayvandNews – A senior Iranian official slams as unjustified and invalid the appointment of any UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights “The Islamic Republic of Iran has always maintained a fundamental stance on the appointment of a special rapporteur with a country mandate,” Mohammad Javad Larijani, the secretary of …
Read More »Iran’s Security Establishment is Targeting the Students of an Imprisoned Spiritual Leader
Iranhumanrights.org – Vahid Pourtahmasb is the fifth student of Mohammad Ali Taheri to have been arrested since 2015. Another student of imprisoned spiritual group leader Mohammad Ali Taheri has been arrested, this time in northern Iran. Vahid Pourtahmasb was arrested on August 19, 2016 by the Sarallah Headquarters of the Revolutionary Guards in the city of Babol, 128 miles north …
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