THE SCOTTSMAN | By Struan Stevenson | July 3, 2020 The appeasement of the murderous, fascist regime in Iran must stop, writes Struan Stevenson. There must have been blind panic in Tehran last week when the mullahs heard that the fugitive judge Gholamreza Mansouri had been arrested in Romania on an Interpol warrant issued by the…
Amnesty International | June 11, 2020 The Iranian authorities must urgently clarify the fate and whereabouts of Hedayat Abdollahpour, a Kurdish prisoner, after local authorities told his family that he had recently been secretly executed, Amnesty International said today. Hedayat Abdollahpour was sentenced to death in 2017 after a grossly unfair trial. On 9 May…
Amnesty International | 12 May 2020 Iranian university student Ali Younesi has been arbitrarily detained since 10 April 2020. His family believes he is being held in Tehran’s Evin prison, where he has been denied access to a lawyer and permitted only two brief telephone calls to his family. The Iranian authorities have not provided…
Fox News | Christopher Carbone | March 26, 2020 The Iranian regime’s cover-up of the spread of coronavirus has resulted in an unprecedented catastrophe in the country, a group of 21 Nobel Laureates warned Monday in a scathing letter to the United Nations. The scientists claim that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s leaders have prevented the free…
Financial Times | Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran | MARCH 3, 2020 Islamic regime isolated and under pressure as outbreak spreads In less than two weeks the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Iran has jumped from two to more than 2,300, shaking public trust in the Iranian regime’s capacity to contain the disease and exacerbating…
Radio Farda | January 4, 2020 Iran Chess Federation on January 2 expelled veteran Iranian female chess grandmaster Mitra Hejazipour for boldly removing her scarf during the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship in Moscow which is considered as defiance of the compulsory Islamic dress code (hijab). “She has no place in the Islamic Republic’s…
Reuters | Reuters Staff | December 23, 2019 (Reuters) – After days of protests across Iran last month, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared impatient. Gathering his top security and government officials together, he issued an order: Do whatever it takes to stop them. That order, confirmed by three sources close to the supreme leader’s…
Radio Farda | Dec. 1, 2019 As the reported death toll form protests in Iran climbs higher, bringing widespread recriminations, some officials appear to be trying to contain the anger by walking back their earlier harsh statements. Some opposition websites, such as Kalemeh, have reported that over 150 protesters shot dead have been buried in only one…
Written by Amir Taghati on 30 August 2019 Iran’s regime hanged eight people ‘en masse’ on Wednesday, August 28 in Gohardasht (Raja’i Shahr) Prison in Karaj, north-west of the capital Tehran. The victims were identified as: Alireza Araei, Alireza Behrad, Manouchehr Dehghani, Ahmad Gharebalaei, Siavosh Inanlou, Reza Mousavi Baraghani, Ebrahim Yarmout Oghli and Mirzaei. They were transferred to…
Amnesty International | 1 August 2019 The flogging of Kurdish singer and prisoner of conscience Peyman Mirzazadeh 100 times demonstrates the shocking brutality of Iran’s justice system, said Amnesty International. Peyman Mirzazadeh had been sentenced to two years in prison and 100 lashes after being convicted of “drinking alcohol” and “insulting Islamic sanctities”. The flogging…
