Thursday , 28 March 2024

Latest news

Iran: Prisoner of conscience flogged 100 times for ‘drinking alcohol and insulting Islam’

Amnesty – The flogging of Kurdish singer and prisoner of conscience Peyman Mirzazadeh 100 times demonstrates the shocking brutality of Iran’s justice system, said Amnesty International. Peyman Mirzazadeh had been sentenced to two years in prison and 100 lashes after being convicted of “drinking alcohol” and “insulting Islamic sanctities”. The flogging was carried out on 28 July and left him …

Read More »

Iran: 55 Years Imprisonment for Three Women Rights Activists

Iran Human Rights (IHR)- Iranian civil activists Yasaman Aryani, Monireh Arabshahi and Mojan Keshavarz, have been sentenced to long prison terms by Branch 28 of the Islamic Revolutionary Courts. They are all held in Qarchak (Gharchak) Prison. They were transferred to the court on July 31, 2019, to receive the verdict without the presence of their lawyers.  Each of the …

Read More »

Iran Executions: Man Hanged at Rajai-Shahr Prison

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner was hanged for murder charged at the Iranian city of Karaj’s Rajai-Shahr prison Wednesday.  According to IHR sources, on the morning of Wednesday, July 31, a man was hanged at Rajai-Shahr prison. IHR could identify him as Mohammad Ghodrati who was 30 at the time of the execution. He was recently transferred from …

Read More »

Why attempts to reform budget structure might hit a dead end in Iran

Al-Monitor – Iran’s Planning and Budget Organization is seeking to reduce the government budget’s direct dependence on oil revenues. Budget deficits, foreign exchange reserve imbalances and extra liquidity were cited in a recent report by the organization as major factors damaging the Iranian economy over the years. The US maximum pressure campaign on Iran’s economy has drastically reduced the country’s foreign exchange earnings from …

Read More »

Iran draws a record 600,000 medical travelers in four months

PayvandNews – Iran hosted a record high of nearly 600,000 medical travelers during the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-July 21), nearly equal to the figure for the whole past year (March 2018-19), according to an Iranian association for the health tourism promotion. Iranian medical tour company: AriaMedTour People from the Persian Gulf littoral states, Iraq …

Read More »
0