After refusing to break his hunger strike, prisoner of conscience Hossein Sepanta was transferred to the Intelligence Ministry’s wing inside Adelabad Prison in Shiraz, Fars Province, on July 10, 2019, on orders of the facility’s ...
Sepanta Niknam was suspended from the Yazd City Council for being a member of the Zoroastrian faith. Suspended Zoroastrian Councilman ...
Six months have passed and the Iranian government has still not resolved the dispute over the suspension of a Yazd City ...
Update: The couple's sentence was later reduced to 15 years for Karan Vafadari and 10 years for Afarin Nayssari. ...
The Supreme Administrative Court in Tehran has blocked an agreement by the speaker of Parliament and the head of the judiciary to reinstate Sepanta Niknam, a member of the Zoroastrian faith, to the Yazd City Council ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has condemned the recent suspension of a Zoroastrian member of a city council as “illegal” and asked the supreme leader to intervene in the growing dispute that has highlighted divisions within the state ...
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The head councilman of the city of Yazd, in southeastern Iran, has refused to carry out a court order suspending the membership of ...
