Tehran has a heavily security-laden face on Qods Day with security and plain clothes forces deployed in various parts of the city. Jaras website reports that anti-riot forces as well as plain clothes forces are seen on Mofatteh Street, Haft-e Tir Square and streets leading to Enghelab Square. Soldiers carrying batons and police vans are [...]

Pro-government forces of the Islamic Republic, often referred to as plain-clothes forces, once more attacked the home of the Iranian opposition leader, Mehdi Karroubi, tonight. Saham News reports that people carrying firearms attacked the opposition leader’s residence. The assailants reportedly broke the front door of the building complex and forced Karroubi’s bodyguards to resort to [...]

Son of the Iranian woman sentenced to stoning reported that her mother was subjected to a mock execution by Tabriz Prison authorities and is now under severe psychological strain. British daily Guardian reports that Sajjad Ghaderi, son of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani said that Tabriz prison authorities told her mother that her execution sentence would be [...]

Nasrin Sotoudeh, Iranian human rights activist,as well as attorney to a number of post-election detainees in Iran, has been summoned to court after her home and office were searched by Islamic Republic authorities. According to an International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran report, Sotoudeh is being charged with “activities against national security and propaganda [...]

At Evin prison, Shiva Nazar Ahari is not just a name. It is a sea. A sea of hope. Hope that lights up the eyes of every new prisoner. You can find the name “Shiva Nazar Ahari” in every interrogation room in Ward 209, written in a neat and legible hand on the acoustic walls. [...]

A language professor at the Islamic Azad University of Bojnourd has been sentenced to three years in prison. According to the Kaleme website, the three-year prison sentence for Hadi Hakim Shafaei was handed down by the second branch of the revolutionary court of the city of Bojnourd. Shafaei was found guilty of “acting against national [...]

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Neda Agha Soltan’s mother, Hajar Rostami, appealed to international human rights organizations and the international court in The Hague to help find her daughter’s murderer. More than one year after her shocking death before the eyes of the world, mother of Neda Agha [...]

Chairwoman of European Parliament’s Subcommittee in Human Rights issued a statement calling for the immediate release of Iranian human rights activist, Shiva Nazar-Ahari. According to Human Rights Reporters, Heidi Hautala has called for the release of Nazar-Ahari, spokesperson for the Committee of Human Rights Reporters of Iran and expressed grave concern over the legal proceedings [...]

One in every five person in Iran’s workforce is unemployed according to recent estimates by economic experts. ILNA, Iran’s Labour News Agency, reports that while Iran’s Statistics Bureau estimated Iran’s workforce at 24 million last spring, the new statistics indicates that five million people are currently unemployed in Iran and unemployment, at 18 percent, has [...]

In province of Semnan, Rasht and Azarbaijan a number of teachers demonstrated on behalf of 120 thousand teachers whom were forced into an early retirement. According to one of the teachers, “during the recent years nearly 130 thousand teachers have been given given short term contract teaching opportunity by Education Ministry, whom all lost their [...]