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Human Rights
Iranian journalist arrested at his home
Iranian journalist Farshad Ghorbanpour was arrested after a raid on his home in Tehran, the Human Rights House of Iran reports.
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Kurdistan
Tabriz University student commits suicide
A student from the city Dehgolan (Iranian Kurdistan) committed suicide and died on Monday December 5, 2011.
Kurdistan
Shocking Statistics of Violation of Human Rights in Kurdistan Province
In arriving of December 10th,the World Day of Human Rights, 185 people have been detained, 215 year prison sentences for political and cultural activists, 34 local on-foot traders were killed and 14 others wounded by the security forces of…
Iran
Most runaway girls now between 14 and 16
More than 58.9% of runaway girls say the main reason they left home was the generation gap between them and their parents, while 16% said they did so after beginning clandestine relationships
Iran
Tehran's foreign schools shut after embassy attack
International schools in Iran have shut their doors after hardline students stormed the British embassy last week, stoking ordinary Iranians' fears that foreigners are about to pull out of the Islamic Republic ahead of a U.S. or Israeli-led…
Kurdistan
Officials in Nosod city levy fees on students to pay for school heating costs
Our reliable sources have confirmed that in schools in Nosod city (in Kirmanshah province) school officials have levied imposed fees on parents contrary to the Article 30 of the Constitution and the General Director of the Ministry of…
Kurdistan
Nosoud security forces brazen out with local on-foot merchants
Following the encounter of the security forces stationed in “Nosoud District” with the border traders in the region, their passage was blocked to the border markets.
Was Iran to blame for bomb attack near British Embassy in Bahrain?
A bomb exploded just 50 yards from the British Embassy in Bahrain yesterday as fears grew that Iranian-backed aggression against the West was spreading through the Middle East.
Iran
Iran foreign minister 'regrets storming of British embassy'
Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's foreign minister, has expressed regret over the storming of the British embassy in Tehran and pledged to prevent future attacks, according to the German foreign ministry.
Iran
Iran says it downed U.S. stealth drone; Pentagon acknowledges aircraft downing
A secret U.S. surveillance drone that went missing last week in western Afghanistan appears to have crashed in Iran, in what may be the first case of such an aircraft ending up in the hands of an adversary.