Hrana News – Sunday, April 18, 2010, two prisoners were beaten to death in the Section 9 and 11 of Urumieh prison by the Special Prison Guards. According to Hrana Reporters, yesterday noon time, a non-political prisoner named “Iraj Ghamangiz” was killed by the prison guards. Accordingly, Sunday afternoon, other prisoners upon being informed of [...]

Hrana News- Arash Sadeghi, a student of Alameh Tabatabayi University sentenced to 3 years imprisonment. According to one of Arash Sadeghi’s friends, his three year prison term that was issued by Judge Maghisseh of the Revolutionary Court Branch 28 while charges were related to his activities at Amir Kabir University and protesting against the burial [...]

Hrana News – On Thursday 15th of April, 2010, following the Security Forces shooting in the border area of Marivan City, two citizens named “khabat” from the village”Razav” in the vacinity of Sarvabad City and “Kiomars” from “Sanandaj City”, were killed. According to Hrana Reporters, Kiomars was seriously wounded due to the shootings of the [...]

Milad Fadayi, a human rights and student activist of Azad University was sentenced to one year imprisonment from a lower court. According to Bamdad News, the one year sentence have been given to Fadayi while he has already spent 4 mos in temporary detention since his arrest and the prosecution have not given consent in [...]

Mostafa Tajzadeh, Davoud Soleimani and Mohsen Mirdamadi have been charged with participation in protests, conspiracy against national security and propaganda against the regime based on articles 500 and 610 of Islamic law. They have been sentenced to total of 6 year imprisonment and have been deprived from participating in press and parties for 10 years [...]

Security and police forces arrested 25 male and female fan of Tractorsazi soccer team on Friday April 16th and released them after few hours interrogating. According to Savlan Sasy, during the soccer game between Tractorsazi and Perspolise of Tehran on Friday April 16th, police forces attacked female fans of this team who had gathered on [...]

While the public figures and Human Rights Organizations are protesting the arrests of families which is considered a hostage situation, reports of “Rooz” is telling of the death penalty for a family’s five members who were detained during Ashura. On the other hand, “Rooz” have been informed of the falsified scenarios being designed by the [...]

Families of detainees go to Evin prison every night, tirelessly, to pursue the freedom of their loved ones. They continue with their gatherings to attain information from prison officers. According to Support Committee of families of detainees and those who have been killed, family of one of the prisoners stated their son is their only [...]

In new series of issuing charges against student activists, disciplinary committee of Kurdistan University issued charges against many student activists. Based on these orders; several of student activists, in complete disbelief, are facing deprivation from education. According to Student News, following is the list of these students: Mohammad Hamidi Rasoul Hosaini Mehdi Kahbor (from graduate [...]

Mojtaba Samienezhad Blocking countries west borders without any economic complementary plan has been going on for years. It has only worsened the bad economic situation at Kurdish regions and has led to killing more people living on the borders. In 2006, government adopted “borders blocking plan” in Azarbaijan Gharbi in the operational form of Nasr, [...]