Iranian authorities announced that the sentence to hang Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Iranian woman sentenced to stoning in an earlier case, has been suspended with consent of the family of the victim. In a letter to the Brazilian president, head of human rights committee of the Iranian parliament wrote that Sakineh Mohammadi has been sentenced to [...]

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called on the Iranian Parliament and the Judiciary to immediately institute a moratorium on executions and to move swiftly to abolish the death penalty, in the face of skyrocketing executions following unfair trials and opaque judicial proceedings.Since the beginning of the New Year, Iran has hanged 47 prisoners, [...]

A few days after the death of the male Syrian tiger at Tehran Zoo, fearing the spread of this disease, Zoo managers decided to shoot 14 lions of this Zoo. Some time ago at Eram Zoo in Tehran Male Syrian tigers whom was brought from Russia to revive the extinct Mazandaran Tigers had passed away. Amir [...]

Two jailed Iranian journalists were released today after over a month in prison. Farzaneh Roustayi, editor of international service of Shargh newspaper was released on a $10,000 bail, and Reyhaneh Tabatabayi, Shargh newspaper reporter, was released after 36 days in custody. In November, the owner and three editors of Shargh were suddenly arrested. Later a reporter and [...]

Situation of women political prisoners in Iranain prisons is cause for grave concern, families of Iranian political prisoners say in a statement that reports on the conditions of jailed female activists in the quarantine section of Evin Prison. According to the statement published on Kaleme Websit, women in the political prison section of Evin lost [...]

Iranian judiciary arrested Reza Khandan, the husband of jailed human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh who was recently sentenced to 11 years in prison. We-change website writes that Khanadan reported to Evin Prison Court today after receiving a summons last week and was arrested without any clear charges laid against him. Khandan has been very vocal [...]

Deputy of Elementary Education Department announced from now on the content of all pre-school books will be based on Quran and added: “we want to start teaching lawful and unlawful religious points from early ages.” Regarding the recent legislation on teaching Quran from early ages Fatemeh Ghorban said: “We are looking to take a Quranic [...]

Dismissed workers of Chini Alborz in Qazvin have not yet received wages for 14 months. Following the dissolution of Chini Alborz of Qazvin which was issued last March, the company workers have protested the dissolution sentence and loss of their livelihood after 23 years of experience, and rallied in front the company, Minitry of Organization [...]

A story titled “Coelho fights”, which was recently published by the Times states after Paulo Coelho made his book available on the internet at no cost, the Iranian government has published a strange report denying any ban on this Brazilian author’s works. The newspaper suggests criticism from the Brazilian government has been most effective and [...]

Foreign diplomats began a tour of Iran’s atomic sites at Tehran’s invitation. But Russia, China and European nations refused to take part in the trip, saying international inspectors should decide when visits occur. Seven envoys of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began a two-day tour of Iran’s atomic sites on Saturday. Representatives from China [...]