The United States has released its 2010 report on human trafficking in the world, citing both progress and persistent challenges in the fight against modern-day slavery. The survey offers assessments of 177 countries along with recommendations for combating forced labor, involuntary domestic servitude, sex slavery, and other forms of bondage resulting from human trafficking. Nineteen [...]

Rahana: Yesterday, Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, a Labor Activist, have contacted his brother in Oshnovieh from Evin Prisons’ Clinic and informed him of his arrest by the Security Forces in Tehran on June 12, 2010. Per the reports of Socialist Students Site, during his arrest, he was terribly beaten in prison and as a result ended up [...]

Sara Khademi, Student activist deprived from Education Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Sara Kahdemi, sociology student of Mazandaran University has been deprived from continuing with her education in master’s level.  She was summoned to assessment office via a phone call on last day of choosing major and she got denied after long interrogation by [...]

NEW YORK — The trial of seven Baha’i leaders imprisoned for more than two years in Iran seems to have come to a conclusion after three days of successive court hearings. The seven appeared in Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran on the morning of Saturday, 12 June and returned to Evin Prison shortly after [...]

Deputy Commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards reacted to the fourth set of UN sanctions, which shows a large focus on blacklisting Revolutionary Guards organizations, saying they are not “worried” about them. “The economical existence of the Revolutionary Guards is not based on interaction with the big world powers and it is only the outside world [...]

RAHANA- Kamran Asa, Hamid-Reza Mosaibian and Ashkan Mosaibian had been transferred to Dizel-Abad prison in Kermanshah a few days ago. According to RAHANA’s reporter, Kamran Asa, brother of Kianoosh Asa, an IUST student who was shot dead by the police forces during post-election protests in June 2009, was arrested on May 31, 2010 for the [...]

On the anniversary of attack on University dormitory known as “University BLVD” Tehran University students attempted to rally in front of technical school of Tehran University. Besed on RAHANA’s report more than 500 students gathered to protest on the anniversary of the attack which killed 5 students and wounded dozens. clashes have been reported between [...]

Reporters for Human Rights Committee – By introducing themselves as “Finance officers” xix Security Force officers entered the house of Ghavameldding Sabetiyan, a Baha’i citizen residing in Sari. Their house was searched and some of their belongings were confiscated. On Wednesday, June 9, at 2:30 pm, six officers in plain clothes entered the home of [...]

RAHANA: Behzad Heidari has been in custody of security forces since June 12. Daneshjoo News reports, Behzad Heidari, a former member of the General Council of the Islamic Association at Amir Kabir University and an engineering student of shipbuilding at the same university was arrested during the protests held for the election anniversary. His whereabouts [...]

Rahana reports: Based on the order of Tehran’s Prosecutor, all families of political prisoners can only visit their loved ones by phone or in visitation booths (behind glass windows and phone conversations) from now on. Per Kalameh Reports, although regular prisoners are allowed to have in person visitation with their families but political prisoners will [...]