Bahareh Hedayat sentenced to 9 1/2 years and Milad Asadi to 7 years imprisonment Rahana: Revolutionary Court Branch 28 presided by Juge Maghisseh condemned Bahareh Hedayat to nine and a half years imprisonment. Charges brought on Bahareh were propaganda against the regime through interviews with foreign media, insulting the leader and the president, disrupting public [...]
By Lindsey Hilsum Exclusive: While Iran reacts to the latest UN draft sanctions aimed at their nuclear programme a former Iranian diplomat tells Lindsey Hilsum about the regime’s “divide and rule” tactics used in its dealings with the West. Earlier this month I went to Oslo to meet the most senior Iranian diplomat to known to [...]
By Fereshteh Ghaazi The trial of human rights activist Shiva Nazar-Ahari will begin in Tehran on May 23rd 2010. This activist who has been behind bars for 11 months, continues to be held in Evin’s solitary confinement Ward 209 with another cellmate. Rooz spoke with Shiva’s mother, Shahrzad Kariman, about her daughter’s situation and living [...]
by Sepanta Parhaam “Sales of these plastic [police] batons have been high for seven or eight months now and we’ve sold scores,” reports one of the vendors for military clothing on Imam Khomeini Street at the intersection with Sepah Street. These shops, whose customers were until a few months ago soldiers and young officers, were located [...]
An Iranian man convicted in France of killing an exiled former Iranian prime minister soon after that country’s Islamic revolution has arrived in Tehran following his release by French authorities. Ali Vakili Rad arrived in the Iranian capital late on May 18, just hours after a French court ordered his release from prison. He had [...]
HRANA – Physical condition of Kaveh Kurd Moghaddam, a political prisoner held in Orumie prison is said to be very critical. Based on Hrana reporters, Kaveh Moghaddam whom was arrested in 2008 (1387) by First Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Orumieh on charges of “acting against national security” has been sentenced to three years [...]
Bahman Khodadai, leftie student’s fate remains unknown There is no news or information available on fate or captivity place of Bahman Khodadai, leftie student of Isfahan University. According to Student News, this student activist of Isfahan university and member of “freedom and equality seeker” was summoned to information office of Isfahan on May 8th. He [...]
4 student activists from Science and Technology University have been expelled based on orders issued by disciplinary committee. These students have been charged with “acting against national security”, “agitation”, “disobeying law”, “stimulating and leading student protests prior and post election” and “holding memorial ceremony for Kianoosh Asa (one of the student killed during post election [...]
RAHANA – In the lead-up to the one year anniversary of the 2009 disputed presidential election and the ensuing protests, Kazem Rezaei, Abdoljalil Rezaei, Hamdollah Namjou, Esmaeil Jalilvand, and Younes MirHosseini, five well-known student activists in Shiraz University have been expelled. The five student activists were expelled despite the fact that Mollabashi, the Deputy in [...]
According to Jaras, visits for female political detainees in the women’s ward of Evin prison have been cancelled for this week after a mourning session was held by the prisoners for executed cellmate Shirin Alam Hooli. Female political prisoners in Evin are allowed to have in-person visits once every month. Kurdish female prisoner Shirin Alam [...]