20:00 Basij and Security forces have garrison environment in Tehran and other provinces in order to prevent the formation of any marches. According to this report at least 15 individuals have been arrested and as we get closer to night, security environment still reigns the streets. It is important to know today, the government used [...]

Workers from the Shiraz Meat Industrial Complex gathered in protest in front of the governor’s office today, a move that coincided with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s trip to Shiraz for the launch of new industrial projects. Sobh-e Omid website reports that 107 workers were laid off from the Meat Industrial Complex last year without receiving their pension [...]

The Coordination Council for the Green Path of Hope has written to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, urging him to make every effort to encourage the release of the two Iranian opposition leaders and their wives, who have been held incommunicado by Islamic Republic security forces since February 14. The Coordination Council, which has spoken [...]

Tehran’s municipal bus service union is urging authorities to arrange medical treatment outside prison for its jailed leader, Mansour Osanloo, RFE/RL’S Radio Farda reports. Osanloo, who has a heart condition, spent three days in hospital last month. His mother, Fatemeh Golqezi, told Radio Farda today Osanloo was cuffed to the bed during his hospital stay. Osanloo’s doctors [...]

Results of household budget reports from Tehran’s urban areas in 2010 which was produced by Central Bank of Iran has stated on average each Iranian family lacks at least 300 dollars per month. Based on this investigation, which was conducted on the living cost and income of each household residing in 75 cities of central [...]

Ali Afshar is a political prisoner who has been held in solitary confinement for the past 40 days in the Orumiyeh central prison. Security agents transferred him there from the Orumiyeh intelligence agency. About three months ago, Ali Afshar was arrested by Iran’s security forces in northwestern Iran near Bukan and Mahabad. During the arrest, security [...]

More than 1,800 construction workers at Tabriz Petrochemical Complex have been staging labour protests since Thursday March 3, while in Tehran, hundreds of workers reach their fifth day of protests at Kian Tyre factory. The Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA) reports that workers at Tabriz Petrochemical Complex are demonstrating against hiring practices and in favour [...]

A group of Iranian women’s rights activists have announced that Tuesday, March 8, the International Women’s Day, will be a “day of protest” against gender inequality. The announcement, which has been signed by 300 women’s rights activists and their supporters, echo the earlier statement from Shirin Ebadi, who called for the day of protest on [...]

Mohsen Hashemi has resigned as director of the Tehran subway system, citing a lack of government co-operation. In a letter to the mayor of Tehran, Hashemi refers to the expansion of the subway system under his supervision and adds: “Unfortunately the lines are currently operating at half capacity because wagons and equipment have been indefinitely [...]

Iranian officials should immediately end the illegal, incommunicado detention of four leading opposition figures: Mehdi Karroubi; Mir Hossein Mousavi; Fatemeh Karroubi; and Zahra Rahnavard, theInternational Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The Campaign warns that the incommunicado nature of their eighteen day long detention in an undisclosed location increases the likelihood that the [...]