Category: News

By JAN M. OLSEN and LORNE COOK   |   January 8, 2019 BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is putting an Iranian intelligence service and two senior officials on its terror list over suspicions that they have ...

WHY IRAN’S 1988 PRISON MASSACRES ARE ONGOING CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY 4 December 2018, Index number: MDE 13/9421/2018 Amnesty International – Between July and September 1988, the Iranian authorities forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed thousands of imprisoned political ...

Washington Post   |   By Spencer S. Hsu   |   August 20, 2018 U.S. prosecutors announced charges Monday against two men arrested Aug. 9 and accused of acting as agents of the government of Iran, covertly monitoring a Jewish ...

By INU Staff   |   August 18, 2018 INU – The US State Department confirmed on Wednesday, August 15, that it is “closely monitoring” reports of human rights abuses in Iran. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said: “We are closely ...

By Iran HRM    |   Jul 30, 2018 The doors of a beef delivery truck opened by accident on Tehran’s Modarres Highway to shock other drivers with the sight of 50 children piled up inside the truck. They called ...

I was attacked in Istanbul in 1990. An attack in Paris was foiled this month. By Hossein Abedini     |    July 23, 2018 “Hossein, have you heard the news about the plot to bomb the gathering?” My colleague asked ...

RAMESH SEPEHRRAD     |    MAY 21, 2018 On December 28, 2017, a local protest over fast-rising prices of basic food staples in the northeastern holy city of Mashad quickly turned into a massive uprising, with people shouting, ...

By Radio Liberty    |    April 12, 2018 In a report released on April 12, London-based international human rights watchdog Amnesty International said “more than half (51%) of all recorded executions in 2017 were carried out in ...