Comittee of Human Rights reporters- Zia Nabavi has been moved to intelligence agency’s prison in Ahwaz. based on our sources, Zia Nabavi spokeman of Education Defence Council, who was transferred to an unknown place from one month ago, now is imprisoned solitary in Prison in Ahwaz. This student was suffering last month in solitary confinement [...]

Tens of workers from the Kian (formerly known as Alborz) tire manufacturing plant have gathered outside the Presidential Office in Tehran to stage a protest against ten months of unpaid wages. According to the conservative Etedal website, the workers chanted Allah-O-Akbar and shouted slogans demanding the intervention of Ahmadinejad to guarantee their rights. The protesters’ [...]

A number of Iranian Baha’is in Bam, Kerman and Tehran have been arrested, Bam’s prosecutor general announced. Mohammadreza Sanjari told ISNA that the arrests were the result of nine months of “intelligence gathering” that led to the suspects being identified and arrested. Sanjari said they were accused of the “promotion and proliferation of their programs [...]

The detained Iranian opposition politician Ebrahim Yazdi is due to go on trial on March 12, his lawyer told RFE/RL’s Radio Farda. Yazdi, the head of the banned Iran Freedom Movement, was arrested in October in the city of Isfahan and transferred to Tehran’s Evin prison. His lawyer, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, told Radio Farda his [...]

Members of Mehdi Karroubi’s family reported that for the first time in 18 days, a light has been turned on at their parents’ home. “We are still of the belief that our mother and father were arrested and kidnapped and taken to an unknown location, but due to fierce domestic and international pressure and the [...]

Agence France-Presse deputy bureau chief in Tehran was expelled on Friday by Iranian authorities, who gave no official explanation for their decision. Jay Deshmukh, a 40-year-old Indian national who had been in the country since January 2009, was stripped of his press card along with 10 other correspondents on February 15, a day after a [...]

A group of women, mainly teachers, whom were serving underprivileged areas, Bumehen villages, and other deprived areas of Tehran have began to protests due to 6 months unpaid wages. These teachers have only been paid for 2 months since the beginning of the school year and have not received wages for nearly 5 months after [...]

Nearly 80 workers covered by a contractor engaged in combined gas cycle of Abadan power plant project have gone on strike since two days ago. Their strike is said to be due to lack of payment on their wages. It is said that these workers have returned to work after some of their demands were [...]

Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president, is replaced as head of Iran’s Assembly of Experts in what is viewed as a victory for his conservative rivals, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and supreme leader Ali Khamenei. The Iranian opposition’s most powerful sympathizer lost his post Tuesday as chief of an important clerical council that oversees [...]

In a meeting with members of the Assembly of Experts, Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, condemned “immoral behaviour” and “vilification” in the country’s political sphere, and urged his supporters to stop such behaviour. “An atmosphere of slander and defamation is against Islam, against religion and in violation of political wisdom, while also being an offence [...]