The Mourning Mothers, a support group of mothers and relatives of state violence victims in Iran, issued a statement to report the increasing state pressure on their members. The announcement reports that two of their members, Akram Neqabi and Jila Taramsi have been arrested along with their daughters. The report adds that Akram Neqabi is [...]

More than 5000 signatures were delivered to the Iranian parliament (Majles) in opposition to passing and promotion of a polygamy law. On the morning of Sunday September 26, fifty gender equality activists from different cities personally delivered more than five thousand signed copies of a statement objecting to controversial articles of the Family Protection Bill. [...]

Detained Iranian human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh managed to inform his family in an interrupted telephone contact that she is on the twelfth day of her hunger strike and her phone conversation was cut short when she attempted to inform her family of her dire situation in prison. A knowledgeable source has told Radio Zamaneh: [...]

Iranian opposition leader, MirHosein Mousavi called on the government to put their “destructive policies” to a popular vote. In an interview with Kaleme website, Mousavi expressed concern about “Iran’s dire situation” and added that the government has to stand by its responsibility to “respect people’s rights, protect liberties, execute the constitution and respect people’s right [...]

Benham (Asad) Ebrahimzadeh is an Iranian worker. He is a workers’ rights, children’s rights and human rights activist. It is almost 4 months now that he has been languishing in solitary confinement in the notorious Ward 209 of Evin Prison in Tehran for those same ‘crimes’. Although a $100,000 bail has been set for his [...]

Regime deploys shadowy army of cyber-warriors to take on dissidents on the web. By Khashayar Nouri The internet is often seen as the domain of dissidents and free spirits. But the Iranian regime like many others has long recognised the importance of winning the virtual propaganda war, and the talk for the last couple of [...]

Photos by Javad Montazeri The shores of the Caspian Sea in northern Iran is the land of my childhood, on which I still look back with nostalgia. These pictures, taken nearly 30 years after my own seaside memories, show how much things have changed, especially for women who now come to the beach in full [...]

According to a news report by DaneshjooNews website, Navid Mohebbi, a Blogger and an activist in the One Million Signatures Campaign was arrested on the 18th of September. According to reports published on the site of the Committee for Human Rights Reporters, this activist was arrested in his family home in Amol city. He has [...]