Iran Human Rights – One prisoner was executed at Saravan Prison on murder charges.
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Iran Executions: Man Hanged in Public
Iran Human Rights – A man who was sentenced to death on the charge of harassing and murdering a 13-year-old teenager was hanged in public in Marvdasht.
Read More »Iran Executions and the Cycle of Violence: Victim’s Brother Murdered in Retaliation for the Execution of the Murderer
Iran Human Rights – After the execution of one of his relatives, a 38-year-old man stabbed the victim’s brother to death in retaliation. Many social science experts believe that Qisas leads to an increase in violence in a society.
Read More »January Protests: Third Day of Hunger Strike for Prisoner Mahin-Taj Ahmadpour
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Mahin-Taj Ahmadpour, a political prisoner being held at Nashtaroud Prison of Tunekabon, has been on hunger strike for three days.
Read More »Five Shirazi Baha’is Sentenced to Exile in Absentia
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – In the absence of both the defendants and their attorneys, Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz has sentenced five of its Baha’i citizens –Farhad Sarafraz, Shahram Mansour, Vahid Dana, Saeid Abedi, and Adib Haghpajouh– to one year in prison and one year in exile each.
Read More »Death Row Juvenile Offender Stages Hunger Strike from Solitary Confinement
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Bahauldin Ghasemzadeh, a juvenile offender sentenced to be executed in Urmia Prison who was physically assaulted and transferred to a solitary cell on September 11th, has started a hunger strike in protest.
Read More »Three More Deaths in Urmia Prison Attributed to Medical Neglect
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)- Urmia central prisoners Gholamreza Tubaragh Ghaleh, Reza Malek Rezaie, and Sajjad Jamali Fard have died due to authorities’ refusal to arrange for appropriate medical treatment, joining a dismal trend of detainee deaths related to medical neglect.
Read More »Number of Barred Baha’i Students Increases on 2018 National University Entrance Exam
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – A large number of Baha’i students who participated in the 2018 National University Entrance Exam, known as “Konkur,” have had their applications flagged “deficiency on file” on the National Organization for Educational Testing website, a known harbinger of educational aspirations dead in the water.
Read More »Iranian Kurdish shopkeepers strike against executions, missile attacks
Al-Arabia – Iranian Kurdish shopkeepers on Wednesday began state-wide strike against the executions of Kurdish activists and the bombing of opposition parties in neighboring states.
Read More »Let My Daughter See Her Sick Father, Pleads Narges Mohammadi’s Mother
CHRI – The mother of imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has urged Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi to allow the ailing political prisoner to go on furlough (temporary leave) so she can visit her ailing father and receive medical treatment.
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