Radiofarda – Iranian state TV January 19 aired prison confessions of two labor activists and a civil activist who were arrested in November during labor protests in southwestern, oil-rich Khuzestan province.
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A Daily Overview of Human Rights Violations in Iran for January 19, 2019
HRANA – The following is an overview of human rights violations in Iran on January 19th, 2019 based on the information compiled and verified by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
Read More »Defense Lawyer Mostafa Tork Hamedani Sentenced to Six Months Imprisonment in Iran
CHRI – Human rights attorney Mostafa Tork Hamedani has been sentenced to six months imprisonment in Iran for allegedly slandering a former prosecutor, his lawyer Peyman Haj Mahmoud Attar announced on January 15, 2019.
Read More »Four Independent News Journalists Arrested in Iran in Less Than a Month
CHRI – Former political prisoner Ali (Amir) Amirgholi has become the fourth journalist working for the Gamindependent online news outlet to be arrested in Iran in recent weeks.
Read More »Four Political Activists Interrogated And One Arrested In Iran
Radiofarda – Reports from Iran say that four political activists in the town of Songhor were taken to the intelligence ministry and questioned for their activities in cyberspace and one of them was arrested.
Read More »British-Iranian Woman Nazanin Zaghari Pressured To Spy For Iran, Husband Reveals
Iran-HRM – Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British woman imprisoned in Tehran on espionage charges, started a hunger strike in protest against being denied access to medical care as well as pressure from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard interrogators to spy on UK for the Iranian regime.
Read More »Cruel, Not Unusual: Iran Prosecutor Backs Off Hint Of Fewer ‘Divine’ Amputations
RFL/RE – Iran’s chief prosecutor has tried to walk back his own suggestion that the country’s courts sometimes avoid amputations or controversial punishments when sentencing criminals due to UN human rights criticisms.
Read More »A Daily Overview of Human Rights Violations in Iran for January 18, 2019
HRANA – The following is an overview of human rights violations in Iran on January 18th, 2019 based on the information compiled and verified by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
Read More »Satirist Keyomars Marzban to Be Tried in Iran Under Hardline Judge Salavati
CHRI -Iranian satirist Keyomars Marzban, who has been detained in Iran since August 2018, is due to face trial for the charges of “propaganda against the state” and “insulting the sacred” at Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran presided by Judge Abolqasem Salavati.
Read More »Evin Prison Repeatedly Blocking Nasrin Sotoudeh From Seeing Her Children
CHRI – Defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh continues to be denied family visits in Iran’s Evin Prison where she has been held on trumped-up national security charges since June 2018, this time under the pretense of having a “small scissor” in her cell, which is allowed in the prison’s Women’s Ward.
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