An unnamed Iranian intelligence official was quoted by state media as saying on Wednesday that two German diplomats were arrested during anti-government protests on the Shiite holy day of Ashura on 27 December. The report did not specify whether the two diplomats were still in detention. “Two German diplomats using the fictitious names ‘Jögi and [...]
Iran on Wednesday publicly hanged a man convicted of murdering a top judiciary official in the central city of Esfahan. The man, identified as Jamshid Hadian, 51, was executed in front of an Esfahan court house, the same place where the murder took place, the official IRNA news agency reported. Hadian shot to death Ahmadreza [...]
Wednesday marked the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp – a day which the United Nations designated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. More than one million people were murdered at Auschwitz, most of whom were Jews. The death camp, in modern-day Poland, was liberated by Soviet soldiers on 27 January [...]
The Salt Lake City-based chemical firm Huntsman announced on Tuesday that it was cutting off all sales to Iran due to concern over the Iranian government’s crackdown on protests following last June’s presidential election. “While such sales have been done in full compliance with U.S. law, it was determined that the small amount of business [...]
Iran Ministry of Intelligence accused a senior aide of disputing candidate of the presidential elections, MirHosein Mousavi, of “espionage.” They also announced that during Ashura Day events, on December 27, they also arrested two German diplomats. In a press conference, a deputy of the Ministry told reporters that one of Mr. Mousavi’s advisers was in [...]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke out against what he called the “spirit of dictatorship” in the country’s judiciary after his chosen head of IRNA State News Agency was prosecuted and sentenced to imprisonment this week. Yesterday in the introduction ceremony for Alli Akbar Javanfekr, the new head of IRNA, Ahmadinejad said: “According to the law if Imam [...]
BY Maziar Razi Open letter to the workers of Venezuela on Hugo Chávez’s support for Ahmadinejad Honourable workers of Venezuela, The Revolutionary Marxists of Iran are aware of your achievements as part of the Bolivarian Movement and have always supported this movement against the widespread lies and the open and covert interference of imperialism. In [...]
Koohyar Goodarzi, journalist and human rights activist, has reportedly been transferred from solitary confinement to a 3-person cell in Ward 209 of Evin prison. Goodarzi has been detained since December 20, 2009. He has been charged with ‘Moharebeh’ (fighting against God and State), ‘anti-regime propaganda’, and ‘participation in illegal gatherings’. Goodarzi has recently been seen [...]
Committee of Human Rights Reporters- According to reports, the whereabouts of Seyed Hossein Ahmadian is unknown. Mr. Ahmadian, Chair of the Popular Committee for Mir-Hossein Mousavi’s campaign, was detained in September and imprisoned at ward 209 of Evin prison. He was scheduled to undergo kidney surgery last Saturday. Mr. Ahmadian’s family have released the following [...]
Morad Mokhtari, a convert from Islam to Christianity, testifies about the persecution he suffered in Iran after he converted in 1988. The interview was conducted by the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center in Connecticut, USA on December 3, 2009. www.iranhrdc.org