As International Workers’ Day approaches, the Islamic Republic judiciary has announced the trial dates for a number of detained members of Tehran’s Vahed public transit drivers union. Gholamreza Gholamhosseini, Morteza Kamsari, Ali Akbar Nazari and Reza Shahabi are four labour activists and union members who will all stand trial within the next month. Gholamhosseini is [...]

Mohammad Seifzadeh, an Iranian lawyer detained two weeks ago, is under severe pressure from the Islamic Republic authorities and his life is in danger, according to his attorney. Marzieh Nikara, Seifzadeh’s attorney told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she is unable to gain information regarding her client’s case, and the authorities [...]

Iran’s Supreme Leader is playing down the “recent affairs regarding the ministry of intelligence” and condemning attempts by foreign media to paint a picture of a divided Islamic Republic establishment. In a report on his official website, Ayatollah Khamenei said: “Look at the foreign media propaganda about this matter and how they have created a [...]

A number of teachers in Hamadan have been summoned by Iranian authorities in advance of next week’s Iranian Day of the Teacher. Jaras reports that Ali Najafi, Mohammad Khani and Saeed Jahanara, members of Hamadan’s teacher’s union, have been have been summoned to court. According to the report, these activists were also arrested last year [...]

After receiving a written court summons order on April 17th, Laleh Hassanpour went to Evin prison on Saturday for the execution of her five year prison sentence, according to the HRANA group. Laleh Hassanpour is a human rights and women’s rights activist. Her sentence was upheld by branch 36 of the Tehran Appeals Court. She was tried [...]

Four Iranians, including a 17-year-old boy, are on hunger strike and have sewn their lips together with fishing wire in protest at plans by the British government to send them back to Tehran. The men, who are among six protesters to have not eaten for 16 days, say they were beaten, tortured and in one [...]

U.S. president Barack Obama accused Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad of a “brutal” crackdown on his people and for “seeking Iranian assistance in repressing Syria’s citizens through the same brutal tactics that have been used by his Iranian allies. Obama called for an immediate end to the new wave of attacks against Syrian protesters. On the [...]

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi says Iran’s heavy-handed state crackdown could be pushing the country toward a revolution. The 2003 Nobel laureate said the Iranian establishment has not shown any flexibility toward the demands of Iranians for change and said as a result, the country has become like a “fire under the ashes.” [...]

The legal representative of a prominent Iranian human rights lawyer says he’s been missing for two weeks, RFE/RL’S Radio Farda reports. Mohammad Seifzadeh was sentenced to nine years in prison in October for “acting against national security” by setting up the Center for Human Rights Defenders, which he co-founded with Nobel Peace Prize-winner Shirin Ebadi [...]

A conservative Iranian MP has expressed doubt regarding next year’s parliamentary elections and accused government of “illegal” practices. Set for March 2012, it is the first national vote since the controversial 2009 presidential elections that sparked mass protests due to allegations of vote fraud. MP Nurollah Heydari told Khabar-on-line: “When a section of the government, [...]