Iranian authorities have executed two individuals for drug trafficking. The first execution took place on July 20 in the city of Shiravan. This individual who’s name has not been revealed was convicted on smuggling 989 grams of Crystal meth. The second prisoner who’s name has not been revealed either was executed in the City of [...]

Not long after Sara Mahbubi’s release from prison Mr Ghavamelddin Sabetiyan, a Baha’i member of Student Rights Activist Organization has been arrested. RAHANA reports, Mr Sabetiyan was arrested on July 18 2010. Based on confirmed news he was arrested at his family home in the city of Sari, and along with his arrest several religious [...]

Ministry Committee has adopted new bylaws under which the executive agencies must refrain from employing individuals whom have drugs, alcohol and tobacco addiction. It is said this bylaw was passed for better management of state laws, demanding physical and mental health examine of all individuals applying for new positions. According to the bylaw management can [...]

The detained head of Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand, has probably suffered a stroke in prison, Iranian human rights groups and his family report. Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand, the founder of Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, was arrested by Islamic Republic security forces on June 2007. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, he [...]

Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi condemned the “savage treatment” of the families of political detainees by the Islamic Republic government, which according to him did not even exist before the Revolution. Saham News website reports that today in a visit with Mansour Osanloo’s family, Karroubi said: “The savage treatment of people and their families these [...]

Issa Saharkhiz, former head of Iran’s Press Supervisory Board accused Iran’s Supreme Leader of “remaining silent in the face of detainee torture” and announced his intention to press charges against the leader. Khodnevis website reports that Saharkhiz was put on trial behind closed doors today at the branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court. According to [...]

Iranian Queer Organization – IRQO Monday, July 12 2010 Following a dispute between two families on 2008 Ebrahim Hamidi’s execution orders was issued for the third time last week in the city of Tabriz, Azarbijan, Mohamad Mustafaei, lawyer of juveniles sentenced to execution reported in his letter to the public. Mr. Mustafaei published a report at the [...]

At least 20 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in two suicide bombings outside a mosque in south-eastern Iran. Members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards were among those who died when the blast struck outside the main mosque in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchistan province, IRNA state news agency reported. “The first explosion [...]

Dr Sohrab Behdad is the coauthor with Farhad Nomani of Class and Labor in Iran: Did the Revolution Matter? (Syracuse University Press, 2006). Below is the translation of an interview with him conducted by Ms. Mahindokht Mesbah of the Persian Language Deutsche Welle Radio on June 16, 2010 DW: The subject of our interview is [...]

Islamic Republic authorities refuse to release Shiva Nazar-Ahari and Kouhyar Goudarzi, two members of Human Rights Reporters, after 200 days in prison. The two activists were arrested in December on their way to Qom to attend the funeral of dissident cleric Ayatollah Montazeri, and have been in Evin Prison since. Shiva Nazar-Ahari was also arrested [...]