October 17, 2018 – After decades of activists peacefully campaigning against Iran’s state ban on women in sports stadiums, dozens of females were allowed to watch a men’s soccer match between the national team and Bolivia on October 16 in Tehran. Immediately after a limited number of ...
Houshmand Alipour and Mohammad Ostad-Ghader Held at Intelligence Ministry’s Sanandaj Center Kurdish political prisoners Houshmand Alipour and Mohammad Ostad-Ghader continue to be denied legal counsel and family visits more than two months after being held in the Intelligence Ministry’s ...
It has been more than a month since the wife of a Sufi Gonabadi Dervish held in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) has heard from her husband after he was put in solitary confinement with seven other Sufi detainees. Faezeh Abdipour said judicial ...
Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against a 25-year-old Kurdish auto mechanic on false charges, the mechanic’s lawyer told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Hedayat Abdollahpour was arrested in late June 2016 following a clash between members of the banned, separatist Democratic ...
Merchants and business owners went on strike in several Iranian cities on October 8, 2018, to protest against hyperinflation and economic instability. Images and video footage posted on social media networks showed many shops closed that day in the ...
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