Ramin Hossein Panahi a Kurdish prisoner, who has been sentenced to death in Iran, has gone on hunger strike. He has sewed his lips, demanding his basic rights. Hia brother, Amjad Hossein Panahi, said his inmates told our family that Ramin had been wounded during his transfer to solitary confinement and apparently he has been taken to a... Read More

According to ISNA news agency in Iran, two men, aged 20 and 23, and two of their friends have put up ads on city walls to sell some of their body parts. Mohammad-Reza, Javad, Mohammad and Ali have put up ads to sell their kidneys and eyes. The mother of one of these young men has to undergo an open heart surgery. Mohammad-Reza said that he... Read More

The house of prominent lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was stormed by the Ministry of Intelligence on Saturday 18 August, 2018, according to Reza Khandan, Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband. Reza Khandan announced that on his Face book page and gave the details of the attack on their home, on Saturday, 18 August. On his online audio interview, he says:... Read More

Marking the 30th year after the 1988 massacre of over 30,000 political and Human Rights prisoners across Iran, human rights activists in various cities launched a campaign of putting posters and laying flowers on the victims’ graves. The 1988 executions of Iranian political and human rights activists prisoners was a series of... Read More

Every member of a church in Iran has been sentenced to a year imprisonment for practicing Christianity. According to an informed source:"A Christian couple have reported that a court in Boushehr has sentenced them, and ten other Iranian Christian converts to one year imprisonment each, for 'Propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran in... Read More

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) statistics in 2017; nearly “800 000 people die due to suicide every year”. http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suicideprevent/en/ The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports the rate of attempted suicide higher among women than men; however, four times as... Read More

Rasoul Khezri, a member of parliament in Iran, says 50 percent of the population live in absolute poverty, and the poverty line has reached up to 6 million tomans, while before the Rouhani’s second term, 12% of the people were in absolute poverty and the poverty line was close to 3 million tomans, so, the percentage of people who are... Read More

Sufi woman Maryam Farsiabi was tried by The branch 15 of Tehran Revolutionary Court and she was sentenced to six months imprisonment and a two-year ban from travelling abroad. Sufi woman Maryam Farsiabi was arrested during the protest gathering by Gonabadi dervishes in Tehran, along with her husband, Mohammad Karimaii, and hundreds of... Read More

Mohammad Hossein Maleki, sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court on the charge of “corruption on earth” through the sale of CCcam and unlocking satellite channels”, was transferred to solitary confinement, on Sunday, 29 July. Mohammad Hossein Maleki, the manager of Asre-Javan website and its Telegram channel who is held at... Read More

Fist of August 2018, is the tenth day of the nationwide strike by truck drivers in Iran. The strike continues in many major cities of Iran including Ahvaz, Khoramshar, Kermanshah, Ardebil, Khoram Abad and many other cities. Continue reading “Iranian truck drivers strike for 10 consecutive days”... Read More