Tehran has announced that due to the decline in air quality, emergency services will be available in various locations around the capital to attend to citizens as needed starting Monday November 17. IRNA reports that in addition to emergency vans, ambulances will be available in the city’s five major squares. Meanwhile, the head of […]
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Tehran Hosts Funeral For Popular Iranian Singer
The funeral of Iranian pop star Morteza Pashaei brought thousands of mourners into the streets of Tehran on November 16. Photographs and videos of Pashaei’s funeral showed large crowds of fans crying and holding his portrait while the coffin, draped with the Iranian flag, was carried from the capital’s Vahdat Hall venue toward a […]
Mahdieh Golroo arrested in Tehran
Mahdieh Golroo, student activist, was arrested by security forces and was taken to an unknown place on 26th October, in the morning. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), in the morning of 26th October, Mahdieh Golroo was arrested by security forces at her home after inspecting and confiscating […]
Dousing Acid in Isfahan and Tracing its Origins in Tehran: A brief look at plain-clothes agents’ dousing acid on Dr. Saberi’s car
Not long after hearing about plain-clothes agents’ dousing acid on the car of Dr. Saberi, a Nematollahi Gonabadi Sufi and university lecturer, on 13, Mehr (October, 5, 2014), did the issue of dousing acid on women in Isfahan hit the headlines. The day after two motor cyclists pursued Dr. Saberi and doused acid on […]
Thousands Of Iranians Protest Acid Attacks
Thousands of Iranians have demonstrated in Tehran and Isfahan against several recent acid attacks against women accused of not being “properly veiled.” Hundreds gathered in front of the parliament building in Tehran, while eyewitnesses said a few thousand came to the Justice Ministry building in Isfahan, the central-western city where the acid attacks took […]
Imposing Travel Ban on Dervishes in Baidokht, Inhibition of the Second Convoy of Dervishes to Tehran
With continuing the prohibition of travel for women from Baidokht to Tehran, in another series of these violations two days ago, a group of women dervishes who were heading to Tehran were prevented and told that, dervishes would not be allowed to leave the city of Baidokht.According to Majzooban Noor, a few hours before […]
Dervishes from Beidokht were prevented from travelling to Tehran; Follow up report on the interception of the bus carrying female Dervishes from Beidokht to Tehran
Following the arrest of the bus carrying female Dervishes and inspection and interrogation by the road police, they were halted from continuing their journey and the bus was sent back to their home town, Beidokht.According to Majzooban Noor, the road police, under orders from security police, intercepted the bus carrying female Dervishes on the […]
Interception of the bus carrying female Dervishes from Beidokht to Tehran; “You are not allowed to travel to Tehran for the next five days”.
Yesterday, on September 30, a bus carrying around 40 female Gonabadi Dervishes from Beidokht to Tehran was intercepted, and the passengers were subject to inspection and interrogation. To this point of time, they have not been allowed to continue their journey. According to Majzooban Noor, the bus was stopped at Sabzevar Police Station, and […]
photos: A report on Gonabadi Dervishes’ protest rally in front of the Ministry of Justice on Valiasr Street, Tehran
Gonabadi Dervishes gathered in front of the Ministry of Justice on Valiasr Street, Tehran, on Sunday (Mehr, 6, 1393; September, 28, 2014). This was the third rally staged as part of the “Migration from Iran to Evin Prison” campaign by the Dervishes in front of judicial and governmental organizations.The imprisoned Dervishes’ families also presented […]
“Happy” Youths Go on Trial in Tehran
Charged with Producing “Vulgar Video Clip” and Having “Illicit Relations” The Iranian youths who produced the dance video “Happy in Tehran” set to the Pharrell Williams hit song “Happy” were put on trial in Tehran on September 9, 2014, where they were charged with “participation in producing a vulgar video clip” and conducting “illicit […]