The United States on Tuesday removed an Israeli holding company from a sanctions blacklist for trade with Iran, clarifying a step taken in May that cast a shadow over Israel’s richest family. Ofer Brothers Group had denied wrongdoing after it was included on a U.S. State Department sanctions list in May and accused of being part [...]
Student activist Shahin Fazli was arrested at his house in Tabriz and was released on bail after 95 days of detainment. According to the Human Rights House of Iran, he was sentenced to 6 months in prison by collabeartng with anti-regime groups and anti-regime propaganda. On Monday, he appeared at Tabriz Court to begin serving [...]
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged governments Tuesday to do more to defend religious freedom as Washington released a report citing eight countries with troubling records on the issue. “We reaffirm the role that religious freedom and tolerance play in building stable and harmonious societies. Hatred and intolerance are destabilizing,” Clinton said, releasing the [...]
The Committee of Human Rights Reporters – The trial for Parvin Mokhtare, Kouhyar Goudarzi’s mother, was held in the Kerman Revolutionary Court last Tuesday, more than one month after her arrest and transfer to Kerman prison. Parvin Mohktare has no history of civil or political activism; she had only defended Kouhyar Goudarzi. Nevertheless, she was [...]
Iran must immediately free Abdolfattah Soltani, a prominent human rights lawyer rearrested at the weekend after spending months behind bars between 2005 and 2009, Amnesty International said on Monday. Soltani, a co-founder of the Centre for Human Rights Defenders along with Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi and others, was arrested Saturday at a prosecutor’s office in [...]
On 10 September, Abdolfattah Soltani, human rights lawyer and a founding member of the Defenders of Human Rights Center was arrested. Soltani’s wife, Massoumeh Dehghan, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that security forces also illegally entered his offices, and confiscated several of his personal and family documents. “Four men went to [...]
The head of the U.N. nuclear agency says he is “increasingly concerned” about new intelligence on Iran’s controversial nuclear program. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano said Monday, at the start of a five-day board meeting, that the agency is worried about Tehran’s possible warhead experiments. He added that while Iran had shown “greater [...]
Student activist and political prisoner Atefeh Nabavi has written a letter from Evin prison for the occasion of her 30th birthday. She and her cousin Zia Nabavi were arrested on June 15, 2009, following the 2009 Iranian Presidential election. Atefeh Nabavi was taken to ward 209 of Evin prison. Branch 12 of the Tehran Revolutionary [...]
In a letter to Ahmad Shaheed, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran, Dr. Mohammad Maleki, the first president of Tehran University after the Islamic revolution, declared that he is ready to reveal the crimes he has witnessed over the past 32 years in Iran. Maleki was recently summoned to appear before the court. “I [...]
Detained Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi says there is no place for reformists in the coming parliamentary elections. Esmail Gerami Moghaddam, the spokesman for Karroubi’s National Trust Party, told Saham News that the opposition leader told his eldest son during their last meeting that “there is no place for reformists in the next parliamentary elections, [...]