A number of Iranian MPs have criticized the appointment of Saeed Mortazavi to head the Social Security Fund, saying it could lead to the impeachment of the Minister of Cooperatives, Employment and Social Security, Abdolreza Sheykholeslamt
Imprisoned teacher Abdolreza Ghanbari’s pardon request has been denied by the Pardon Commission of Tehran Province Judiciary, a source close to his family told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. With the rejection of his…
Habibollah Golparipour who is sentenced to death by the Iranian regime revolutionary court, based on some news sources, he was moved to an unknown location and threatened with the imminent execution of his death sentence.
There is growing fear over the fate of Habibollah Golparipour, an Iranian-Kurdish political prisoner who may be in imminent danger of execution.
The Iranian government body that sets the country's official cultural policy has reportedly removed World AIDS Day from the state calendar. The move has prompted concern among those fighting the spread of AIDS in the Islamic republic, where…
Iranian activists have issued a statement urging the government to release political prisoners for Norooz, the Iranian New Year.
On the eve of fire feast in Iran, antihuman regime of the mullahs, in fear of popular uprising, has intensified savage executions. Only in the period of 7 to 11 March 2012, 10 prisoners have been hanged in various cities.
People caught up in the massive wave of arrests in the wake of the Syrian uprising have been thrust into a nightmarish world of systemic torture, a new report by Amnesty International says today.
Farshid Yazdani, a member of the Association for the Defense of Children’s Rights, has raised the flag on the increasing rate of the marriage of girls under the age of 10 in Iran. He stated that in 2009, 449 girls under the age of 10 were…
Seventy-two Iranian and Afghan asylum seekers were arrested by Indonesian police while trying to cross from Loji to Australia's Christmas Island.
Kurdistan Press Agency
