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31 Young Guests Arrested at a Birthday Party in Tabriz
Iranian security forces raided a birthday party held at a traditional café in Tabriz and arrested 31 young men and women.
Human Rights
Iran
Iran arrests 65 people on spy charges
Fifty such people have been summoned to appear before magistrates courts in Tehran and other major cities, accused of helping the BBC to produce a series of films that the intelligence services believe to be ‘harmful to national security’.
Iran
The Addiction Treatment Camps Are Promoting Moral Corruption in Iran
Based on a report by semiofficial Fars News Agency related to the addiction treatment camps; despite claims by the relevant agencies to oversee the health camps in Iran, moral corruption and drug abuse in the camps continues.
Kurdistan
More than 142 political and cultural activists detained in the Kurdish regions of Iran during the last 3 months
Iranian judiciary and security system have arrested more than 142 Kurdish political and cultural activists throughout Kurdistan areas during the last 3 months. Based on various reports from reliable websites, in mostly of the Kurdish cities…
Human Rights
186 children victims of Syrian revolution so far
Recent statistics obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat confirm that 186 children and 98 women have been killed since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution on 15 March. The youngest Syrian child killed during the revolution was just 2 months old,…
Iran
A Child Laborer Gang-Raped and Killed
Eleven Afghani workers kidnapped, gang-raped and murdered a child laborer in a region known as Pardis in the city of Karaj, Alborz Province, Iran. According to a report, on Saturday, October 22, 2011, an anonymous caller contacted the…
Iran
15 female students banned from mid-term registration
After Hossein Saleh Nejad, the former head of the Science and Industrial University Bassij Department was appointed as the head of the School of Architecture at this university, a wave of insulting treatments of students started at this…
Iran
Physical and Psychological Pressure on Journalists
A month after his arrest, judicial authorities informed the family of detained journalist Amir Ali Allamehzadeh that he is held in a solitary cell inside Ward 2-A of Evin Prison, a friend of Allamehzadeh told the International Campaign for…
Kurdistan
One Year Prison Sentence for a Kurdish Citizen
A Kurdish citizen in Khoi (West Azarbaijan in Iran) was sentenced to one year in prison on charges of cooperating with dissent groups and act against the national security by the revolution court of Islamic regime. Based on a received…
Human Rights
Protesters in Yemen draw hope from Libya
Tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the Yemeni capital to demand the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, galvanized by the death of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. "Ali, it's your turn next, yours and…