RAHANA: Ali Akbar Baghani whom is suffering from a serious illness has been in detention for over 60 days. Two week have passed since the last contact Mr. Baghani had with his family. Daneshjoo news reports, during the past two week he has been not been allowed any visitors or phone call for unknown reasons [...]
Leaders of the G8 countries will discuss two of the world’s nuclear trouble spots, Iran and North Korea, when they meet Saturday morning in Huntsville, Ont. “The nuclear activities of both Iran and North Korea are of serious concern,” the Canadian government says on its G8 website. Western countries fear Iran is developing nuclear weapons, [...]
Hrana News – Farzad Kamangar’s mother, the teacher who was executed, in a message to all the conscious people who have shown sympathy during these trying times to her family, was thankful. According to Hrana Reporters, she added in her message that following the execution of five of the selected children of this nation on [...]
A group of families of Iran’s post-election detainees complained to Tehran Prosecutor General about the “short length of allowed visits and the ill behaviour of some of the prison officials” at Karaj’s RejaiShahr Prison. The letter which was signed by the families of Massoud Bastani, Ahmad Zeidabadi, Issa Saharkhiz, Davoud Soleymani, Rasoul Bedaqi, Mehdi Mahmoudian, [...]
Secretary General of International Conference on Support for Palestinian Intifada, Hossein Sheikholeslam announced today that the Iranian aid ship will not go to Gaza. IRNA reports that the aid ship was first scheduled to leave for Gaza on June 24, but Israeli restrictions caused it to be postponed to Sunday June 27. However, currently the [...]
Mojataba Saminejad RAHANA- On Wednesday June 23rd, 2010 at around 5:30pm Zoya Samadi, Mansour Osanloo’s (Head of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran & Suburbs Bus Company) daughter in law was leaving work to go home. Samadi was brutally accosted by agents from the Ministry of Intelligence at the Tarasht metro station when she stepped [...]
RAHANA: Baha’i citizens of village of Ivel in Mazandaran, had turned in a complaint referred to Kiashahr county court on June 22 which was pronounced illegal after being looked at. They had also referred to the county seat for the governor ain Sari and General Court of Kiasar and police station which neither had any [...]
RAHANA- Sara Mahboubi, Baha’i student and resident of Sari who has been deprived of continuing her education, was arrested this morning after visiting the Intelligence Ministry in the city of Sari. It has been reported that security forces originally arrived at Sara Mahboubi’s house at 12:00pm on Saturday, June 19, 2010 with the goal to [...]
RAHANA- Mohammad Ashrafi, a member of the Committee to Establish Free Labor Organization in Iran was summoned by phone to the the Interrogation Branch #3 at the Revolutionary Court and asked to appear immediately in order to discuss the case filed against him on February 11, 2010. Upon presenting himself to this office on Tuesday, [...]
HRHI- Afshin Ighani has been sentenced to 4 years and 3 months in prison on charge of forming groups intending to disrupt the national security. According to Baha’i Community portal, this verdict has been issued while any type of Baha’i-related activity is illegal and thus has no aim besides disrupting the national security; therefore, the [...]