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RFL/RE – Iran has called Turkey’s claims that Tehran’s allies are violating a cease-fire in Syria as “unconstructive,” accusing Syrian rebels of breaking the truce. “The current cease-fire in Syria has been violated repeatedly by the antigovernment armed opposition groups,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said on January 5. Ghasemi called on Turkey to take measures to deal with such …

Al-Arabia – The chief prosecutor of Tehran has revealed that there are as many as 70 spies serving sentences in the Iranian capital’s prisons, far more than what had been estimated. The 70 convicts had “offered intelligence to enemies in various fields including atomic, military, political, social and cultural,” Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said, quoted by the Mizan Online news website. …

Iran Human Rights – Seven prisoners were executed on drug related charges in northern Iran. Four prisoners were reportedly executed at Karaj Central Prison (northern Iran) and three prisoners were reportedly executed at Karaj’s Ghezel Hesar Prison (northern Iran). All seven prisoners were sentenced to death on drug related charges. According to close sources, on Wednesday January 4, the execution …

Amnesty – The Iranian authorities must immediately transfer Arash Sadeghi, an imprisoned human rights defender who ended his 71-day hunger strike yesterday, to hospital so that he can receive the urgent specialized medical care he requires, Amnesty International said today. Arash Sadeghi went on hunger strike in October 2016 in protest at the imprisonment of his wife, the writer and …

Iranhumanrights.org – Public Pressure Forces Iran’s Judiciary to Retreat From Hardline Stance “The [Tehran] Assistant Prosecutor Mr. Hajilou accepted that my case was wrongfully handled, but said it would take time for it to be reviewed,” Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee told the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran on the first day of her temporary leave from Evin Prison on January …