Children’s rights advocate and leftist poet Omid Aghdami has been missing since October 5, 2017. A confidential source close to the activist claimed his phone and online connections with his friends have been cut off and that they’re worried …
Iranian Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has vowed to block “anti-revolutionary channels” on the Telegram messaging application after the popular Amad News channel reported that a state official’s daughter was arrested for spying, the Center …
Around 459,000 lost their lives in traffic accidents and more than 4.5 million people were injured in Iran within less than two decades since 1999, Radio Farda reports quoting Iran’s police chief Taghi Mehri. Iran’s police chief …
The radical ideology of Ruhollah Khomeini lives on through Iran’s present Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, who has strengthened his hold on the Iranian people through the use of a repressive internal security apparatus. Unemployment and …
An appeals court has upheld a five-year prison sentence handed down to a former member of the Iranian nuclear negotiation team found guilty of espionage, Press TV reports. In August 2016, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, Iran’s Judiciary spokesman, …
The Iranian Education department in Al-Ahwaz has officially given the opportunity to hire 2,000 teachers from Lur tribes, that underwent a very short training and will be employed, Ahwazi Center for Human Rights reports. “In …
Ahwazi activists have been circulating a footage video through social media, revealing of the brutal torture carried out by the Iranian occupation security forces against Ahwazi detainees in prisons centre in recent days, Al Arabiya reports. …
A young woman banned from the Iranian national chess team for allegedly attending an international competition without wearing an Islamic headscarf, joined the U.S. team, Washington Post reports quoting an Iranian news agency. The semi-official …
Imprisoned teacher’s rights activist Mahmoud Beheshti-Langroudi is sentenced to 14 years in prison after the confirmation of his latest prison sentence, his son told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Langroudi is currently …
Iranian activists have been sharing a video showing a taxi driver in the city of Isfahan punishing his wife by driving at full speed while she held on to car’s windshield, Al Arabiya reports. The …
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