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HRW – Iran’s judiciary is dramatically increasing the costs of peaceful dissent in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today. Since July 31, 2019 alone, revolutionary courts have sentenced at least 13 activists to prison sentences of more than a decade for peaceful dissent. “Again and again, Iranian revolutionary court judges have been ensuring that anyone who dares challenge the authorities will …

CHRI —Less than a year after workers’ rights activists in southwestern Iran publicized evidence that Intelligence Ministry agents had tortured detainees, those same activists and four independent journalists who covered their cases have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms. “The sentences are an indicator that newly appointed Judiciary Chief Ehrabim Raisi intends to prolong his predecessor’s reign of repression by punishing peaceful …

Al-Monitor – As part of its efforts to pressure to Europe to secure financial transactions for sale of its oil in order to evade US sanctions, Iran has taken the third step of incrementally reducing its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. The agreement is also known as the Joint Comprehensive …

PayvandNews – Iran national basketball team advanced to the 2020 Olympic Games after beating the Philippines in the 2019 FIBA World Cup classification round on Sunday. FIBA✔@FIBA @IranBasketball return to the @Olympics for the first time since 2008 in Beijing! #Tokyo2020 http://go.fiba.basketball/NGR_IRI_Tokyo2020 … 1682:10 AM – Sep 9, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacy46 people are talking about this In the match …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare has praised as “timely” the decision of the country’s chief judge to look into unusually harsh sentences announced last week against several labor activists. Ebrahim Raeesi the head of Iran’s conservative Judiciary has personally stepped in and ordered a review of jail terms as high as 20 years for labor …