Category: News

Two more journalists arrested

Posted on by admin-hr
Freedom of Expression
Fatemeh Sagharchi, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaie, Ramyar Hassani, Reyhaneh Tabatabaie

HRANA News Agency – As Etela’at ministry promised in their last statement about the arrested journalists and continuation of recent repressions, Reyhaneh Tabatabaie and Fatemeh Sagharchi have added to the arrested journalists.

According to the reports by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Fatemeh Sagharchi and Reyhaneh Tabatabaie have been arrested on January 27th and January 31st.

Fatemeh Sagharchi’s lawyer, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaie, said that his client’s case is related to the recent journalists detentions.

Continue reading “Two more journalists arrested”

400 million Tomans bail has been asked for Milad Dehghan

Posted on by admin-hr
Prisoners
Milad dehghan


HRANA News Agency– Revolutionary court in Ahwaz asked for 400 million Tomans bail for Milad Dehghan’s provisional release.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), after 42 days with no news about the place of detention and the dossier situation of Milad Dehghan, finally on Sunday through a phone call from Karoun prison of Ahwas, his family informed that 400 million Tomans bail asked for him.
Continue reading “400 million Tomans bail has been asked for Milad Dehghan”

The lawyer, Manizheh Bohlouli arrested

Posted on by admin-hr
Freedom of Expression
Hossein Moharrami, Manizheh Bohlouli

HRANA News Agency – Manizheh Bohlouli, The lawyer at justice department has been arrested without enough evidence and reason; and transferred to prison by the 4th branch of prosecutors in Miyaneh.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), This lawyer called her family from Miyaneh prison and informed them that she is in detention, and Also the assistant prosecutor of 4th branch has granted a bail of 5 million tomans for her.

Continue reading “The lawyer, Manizheh Bohlouli arrested”

Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, Iranian Labor Activist Transferred to Solitary Confinement

Posted on by admin-hr
Labor and Guilds
Behnam Ebrahimzadeh

HRANA News Agency – Behnam (As’ad) Ebrahimzadeh, imprisoned labor activist in Ward 350 of Evin Prison was transferred to Solitary Confinement in Ward 240.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Behnam (As’ad) Ebrahimzadeh, imprisoned labor activist in Ward 350 of Evin Prison was transferred to Solitary Confinement in Ward 240 on Tuesday, December 18, 2012.

There is no information about the reason of his transformation to solitary confinement.

Continue reading “Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, Iranian Labor Activist Transferred to Solitary Confinement”

The exile of Mokhtar Assadi, teachers activist, extended off

Posted on by admin-hr
Prisoners
Mokhtar Assadi

HRANA News Agency – the Department of Education in Kurdistan Province has extended off the exile of Mokhtar Asadi for the fifth year.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the exile of Mokhtar Asadi, a member of Teachers’ Union of Iran and Kurdistan and also a human rights activist, has been extended off by the Department of Education in Kurdistan Province for the fifth year.
Continue reading “The exile of Mokhtar Assadi, teachers activist, extended off”

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

Now is definitely not the time to stop reading!

Role of Cyber Police in Blogger’s Death is Obvious

Posted on by admin-hr
Freedom of Expression
Ahmadi Moghaddam, Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, Sattar beheshti

HRANA News Agency – The head of Iran’s Security Forces says police may be guilty of “some level of neglect” in the arrest of Sattar Beheshti but he denied there was any motive to murder the detained blogger, who died in custody earlier this month.

Continue reading “Role of Cyber Police in Blogger’s Death is Obvious”

European Parliament urges Iranian authorities to stop human rights violations

Posted on by admin-hr
Freedom of Expression
Ahmed Shaheed, Jafar Panahi, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Sattar Behesht

HRANA News Agency – The Iranian blogger Sattar Behesht was arrested and tortured to death by Iran’s cyber-police known also as Fata. Sattar Behesht had been accused that he was acting against the national security. The European Parliament published yesterday a new resolution on human rights situation in Iran.

Continue reading “European Parliament urges Iranian authorities to stop human rights violations”

Zahra Mansouri, Prisoner in grave danger for lack of medicine

Posted on by admin-hr
Prisoners
Mohammad Ali Mansouri, Zahra Mansouri

HRANA News Agency – Zahra Mansouri who is suffering from epilepsy and has to regularly take her medicine and live in a stress free environment, is in grave danger in Evin prison for lack of medicine.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Mansouri who is more than 60 years old, was arrested by security forces on June 1, 2011 and was detained for 90 days in a solitary cell in Section 209 in Evin Prison and was released on bail on August 19, 201, was called and detained to serve her two years of prison in Evin, recently.
She is the sister of political prisoner Mohammad-Ali Mansouri and always been under pressure for this reason.

Mehdi Khalaji: Iran and the Human Rights Opening

Posted on by admin-hr
Freedom of Expression
Abdul Fattah Sultani, Ali Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karroubi, Mehdi Khalaji, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mohammad Javad Larijani, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Zahra Rahnavard

image

HRANA News Agency – The West’s single-minded focus on the nuclear dossier has permitted Iranian authorities to widen their violations of human rights.

With tensions mounting over Iran’s nuclear program, the West has dealt the Tehran regime crippling blows on several fronts, including through sanctions, the targeted killing of scientists, and cyber operations such as the Stuxnet virus. Tehran is no doubt reeling but regime leaders have spotted a silver lining: The West’s single-minded focus on the nuclear dossier has permitted them to widen their violations of human rights.

Continue reading “Mehdi Khalaji: Iran and the Human Rights Opening”

Baluchi Teenager Exiled & Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

Posted on by admin-hr
Children
Mohammad Saber Malek Raisi

HRANA News Agency – Mohammad Saber Malek Raisi has been sentenced to 5 years in prison by the Revolutionary Court in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan Province.He is a Baluchi teenager arrested by Iranian Intelligence Agency in order to force his oldest brother to return to Iran.Abdol Rahman, Mohammad’s brother, fled the country in 2009 fearing for his life after he refused to be the Intelligence Agency’s spy amongst Sunni scholars and Baluchi tribes.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Mohammad Saber Malek Raisi was arrested when he was 17 years old and has been in prison for over a year in the Intelligence Agency’s detention center and the central prison in Zahedan.The Revolutionary Court has sentenced him to 5 years in prison.He must serve this prison term in exile.

One of Mohammad Saber Malek Raisi’s brothers has reported that Mohammad must spend 5 years in Ardabil Prison away from his family and their residence.The city of Ardabil is in northwestern Iran in Ardabil Province while Zahedan is a city in the south east part of the country.Because of the long distance between two locations, Mohammad will be practically denied visits from his family at the age of eighteen.

During the past year, Mohammad Saber Malek Raisi has also been denied the right to attend school.His only crime is being related to his brother who is outside the country.Iranian Intelligence Agency has threatened Mohammad’s family multiple times with executing him if his oldest brother doesn’t return to Iran.

Mohammad Saber Malek Raisi is one the youngest prisoners arrested for political reasons by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Copyright © 2009-2011 All Rights Reserved