HRANA News Agency – 6 men and 4 women have been executed in the central prison of Birjand during 2 days.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Sunday night 20th June 4 men and 4 women charged with transporting and storing drugs were executed by hanging in the yard of Birjand central prison. Continue reading “6 men and 4 women executed in Birjand”
HRANA News Agency – A Sunni convert from Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority currently detained in Karoun Prison in Ahwaz is being deprived of adequate medical treatment by prison authorities, despite suffering from a brain tumor.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), prison authorities have refused to transfer 30-year old Jaber Sakhravi, whose condition is deteriorating, to a hospital outside of the prison where he can receive adequate medical treatment. Continue reading “Sunni convert with a brain tumor deprived of medical treatment”
HRANA News Agency – Arash Honarvar Shojai, the prisoner of conscientious has started hunger strike after a heavy bail was set for him.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Arash Honarvar Shojai, whose first sentence of four years in prison is about to finish and his second 15 months in prisons sentence is going to be started, has started hunger strike after court set a one billion bail for him. Continue reading “Arash Honarvar Shojai started hunger strike”
HRANA News Agency – Rahim Rashi 66-year-old resident of Mahabad is still imprisoned after five months of detention without trial.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Rahim Rashi, Kurdish civilian resident of Mahabad, was arrested on 20th February by Mahabad security forces and after 15 days in solitary cell, he was taken to general ward in Mahabad city General Prison. Continue reading “After 5 months of detention, a Kurdish citizen is still under arrest”
HRANA News Agency – Four Sunni prisoners awaiting execution in Iran announced an end to their hunger strike after 39 days without food, after being returned to Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj yesterday.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the men, Hamed Ahmadi, Kamal Molayee, Jahangir Dehghani and Jamshed Dehghani began their hunger strike on 14 June 2014 after they were transferred to Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj in order for their execution to be carried out. Continue reading “Four Sunni prisoners announce end to hunger strike”
HRANA News Agency – Iran’s crackdown on the Sunnis of Ahwaz continues as three Sunni preachers from Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority were arrested on Sunday in Mahshahr city, Kuzestan province of Iran.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), 23-year old Hossein Saboori and his 21-year old brother Hassan Saboori were arrested and taken to an unknown location by security forces on Sunday 20 July 2014 in the town of Taleghani (Al-Kora) in Mahshahr city, Khuzestan. Continue reading “Three Sunni preachers arrested in Ahwaz”
HRANA News Agency – According to a Persian report carried by ILNA news agency, the Iranian lawyer Guity Pourfazel has informed them of the conviction of her 15 Bahai clients in the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz.
Four women were sentenced to one and half years in jail, the sentences being suspended for five years. Continue reading “Jail Sentences for 15 Baha’is in Shiraz”
HRANA News Agency – Mr. Sarang Etehadi has been summoned to begin serving his one-year prison sentence on charges of “propaganda against the state through participation in Bahai worship and prayer groups.”
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), he had been instructed via a telephone call from the Evin Prison Courts on July 6, 2014, to appear to begin serving his sentence within a week. Continue reading “Sarang Etehadi begins a one-year sentence”
HRANA News Agency – Six Bahais are reported to have been arrested in Tabriz on July 12.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), their names are given as Farzad Bahadari, Samin Rasouli and their children, Sahar and Nassim Bahadari, who are members of one family, Shabnam Issakhani, a mother of two, and Rashin Saberi, who is reported to be 8 months pregnant. Continue reading “Six Bahais arrested in Tabriz”
HRANA News Agency – The fifth ward of the women’s prison of the central prison of Mashhad, in Vakilabad, consists of one room which is approximately 30 square meters, including medical services and a bathroom.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), at present six Bahai women prisoners are held there, all charged with acting against national security and spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic under Articles 499 and 500 of the Iranian Constitution by promoting the Bahai Faith and participating in its activities. The names of the Baha’i prisoners in this ward are: Continue reading “Report from the Bahai wing of Vakilabad Women’s Prison, Mashhad”
