Ramin Mehmanparast, spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry described Lula da Silva’s offer of asylum to the woman sentenced to stoning in Iran “a Western conspiracy to interfere in international relations of countries.” Over two weeks ago, Lula da Silva urged Mahmoud Ahmadienjad to allow Brazil to offer asylum to Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani whose sentence of [...]

Iranian political prisoner, Issa Saharkhiz has filed an official complaint with the US Federal Court against Nokia Siemens and its subsidiaries, Saharkhiz’s attorney reported. Saharkhiz, who was arrested last July in the aftermath of the disputed presidential elections of Iran which led to widespread protests against alleged vote fraud, has filed his complaint in protest [...]

By Amin Sabeti There have been a variety of controversies over filtering, the extent of which was intensified following the Iranian disputed election, since the past year. This time on, at the end of each season, there will be some news briefs about the latest circumstances of filtering in Iran published in form of seasonal [...]

Zahra Rahnavard said today that while the Iranian government condemns Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, “it treats people worse than Saddam.” At the threshold of the twentieth anniversary of the release of Iran/Iraq eight-year war POWs , Zahra Rahnavard said: “The current oppressive Islamic Republic government should repent and stop oppressing people,” Kaleme [...]

Families of prisoners, who ended their hunger strike at Iran’s Evin Prison, were once more barred from visiting their kin. Kaleme website reports that the families of the 16 political prisoners who had recently gone on a hunger strike, staged a protest today Monday for being once more denied the right to visit their loved [...]

The Gold Bazzar in Mashad went on strike protesting the armed attack in this market, killing three people. In this attack 3 people identified as Reza Khojasteh Toossi, Hessam Barniyayi and Mojtaba Nasserara were killed. Also yesterday, another armed robbery in Kerman St. left 5 pedestrians injured due to shootings of which 3 are in [...]

Jila bani yaghoob, with the expression “I heard some people are dissatisfied with the prisoners stopping their hunger strike”, she wrote in her website: “Not only the mothers and wives of these prisoners were not eating anything for two weeks but even my own mother could not eat due to her son-in-law being on hunger [...]

RAHANA- Mansour Osanloo, was convicted of new crimes last week and as a result was once sentenced to an additional year in jail, all in the absence of his lawyers. This additional year in prison will begin once his current prison term ends in one year. According to reports from Jaras, Mansour Osanloo head of  [...]

Families of the 16 Iranian political prisoners who recently ended their hunger strike report that they are still barred from contact with their kin. Kaleme website reports that the prisoners still remain in solitary confinement and due to dry hunger strike, they are most probably weak and their gastro-intestinal system deteriorating. One of the chief [...]

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced to stoning, made a self-incriminating confession on Iran’s state television last night. In a program titled “The case of murder tainted with corruption” Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani appeared in front of the camera speaking in Turkish with a voice over translating her words. The translation amounted to a condemnation [...]