Well-known Iranian human rights activist Kouhyar Goudarzi — who had been banned from his studies, jailed a number of times, and sentenced to five years in prison — recently fled Iran. Goudarzi, a member and former head of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, was honored while behind bars with the National Press Club’s […]
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Court receives Iranian workers’ minimum wage complaint
The complaint by workers objecting to the minimum wage recently announced by the Ministry of Labour has been submitted to the Supreme Court of Administration. Workers have claimed that the minimum wage is supposed to rise in accordance with the inflation rate, as laid out in the Labour Ministry’s administrative provisions, but while the […]
More quakes felt in six Iranian provinces
Earthquakes measuring between 3 and 5 on the Richter scale have rocked six Iranian provinces since 11 PM last night, April 19, stretching into the early hours of today, Saturday. IRNA reports that the largest of these quakes happened at 2:11 AM in the city of Ahl in the central province of Fars. It […]
Gulestan Of Saadi : CHAPTER I – The Manners Of Kings ( Story 13-14-15 )
Persian Language & Literature “Gulestan” Saadi Shirazi, Sheikh Mosleh al-Din CHAPTER I – THE MANNERS OF KINGS Story 13 I heard a king, who had changed night into day by pleasures, saying in his drunkenness: ‘We have in the world no moment more delightful than this, Because I care neither for good nor for bad […]
Health concerns rise for jailed Iranian activist
The wife of political prisoner Mehdi Khazali says her husband is being held in a “tight cell without any basic services” and his health is seriously at risk. The Kaleme website reports that a number of political activists visited the family of jailed activist Mehdi Khazali, and they were told that his calls to […]
CPJ urges Iranian authorities to release journalists
New York, April 18, 2013–The cases of an Iranian blogger imprisoned for seven months without trial and a prominent freelance journalist whose health has deteriorated in prison illustrate the ongoing abuses being perpetrated by Iranian authorities, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Kaveh Taheri, a blogger who has been held at […]
Gender Inequality and Discrimination: The Case of Iranian Women
Today, on this year’s International Women’s Day, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) is pleased to release “Gender Inequality and Discrimination: The Case of Iranian Women”, a 60+ page legal commentary from Iranian lawyer Mohammad Hossein Nayyeri. In his commentary, Nayyeri analyzes the impact of discriminatory laws, as written and as applied, on […]
Iranian journalist , Shahidi, has stroke
Iranian journalist Hengameh Shahidi suffered a stroke last night, on April 11, and is currently under care in a hospital in Tehran. Shahidi’s daughter has reported on her Facebook page: “Due to the recent pressure, my mother’s heart problems have been aggravated and for the fourth time she has suffered a stroke and is […]
Amnesty International Calls for Urgent Action: Iranian hunger strikers in critical condition
URGENT ACTION IRANIAN HUNGER STRIKERS IN CRITICAL CONDITION Two men imprisoned in Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz, south-west Iran, are in critical condition after a prolonged hunger strike protesting the harsh treatment of dervishes, including lawyers, in Tehran’s Evin Prison. They have been beaten, have lost consciousness several times, and are being kept alive […]
The Families of Imprisoned Dervishes: None of the Iranian Judicial Authorities Are Accountable!
Yesterday morning on 18 Farvardin 1392 (April 7, 2013), the mother of Kasra Nouri, Mrs. Shekoufeh Yadollahi along with Mrs. Masoumeh Khalili, the wife of Saleh Moradi met Mr. Ali Alghasi Mehr, the Shiraz district’s public prosecutor and argued over Dervish hunger strikers and their demands.According to Majzooban Noor, Mrs. Yadollahi and Mrs, Khalili […]