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Iran: Poet Released After Multiple Arrests. Activist Teacher Released After Hunger Strike
Keyvan Mehregan, the Iranian poet, journalist and filmmaker, was released from Evin Prison on Wednesday May 11. Mehregan's wife, Afsaneh Parchekani, reports that the prosecutor and the judge agreed to...
Bookworms pack into Tehran bookstores for reading campaign
- Major bookstores opened early across Tehran on Thursday to host readers for Ketabgardi (Tour of Bookstores), a reading campaign launched by Tehran City Council member Ahmad Masjed-Jamei during the l...
Foad Sojoudi Farimani Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison
Foad Sojoudi Farimani, Amir Kabir University student who had been banned from continuing his education, has been sentenced to 8 years in prison./ while he had been admitted to Amir Kabir University fo...
Iran: Two Imprisoned Women Journalists Released
Two jailed Iranian journalists were released today after over a month in prison. Farzaneh Roustayi, editor of international service of Shargh newspaper was released on a $10,000 bail, and Reyhaneh Tab...
Iran releases Mehregan, Khandan and Rais Dana on bail
Iran released Keyvan Mehregan, the political editor of Shargh newspaper and Reza Khandan, husband of jailed human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh yesterday evening. The release of Keyvan Mehregan, the ...
Reformist university student sent from political prison to mental hospital
Farimani, a Masters student at Amir Kabir University, who was arrested in September has been transferred to the Mehregan Mental Hospital after his release./ and transferred to the IRGC run Ward 2A and...
Iranian judiciary comments on recent arrests
Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi commented on the cases of a number of recent arrests and detained journalists in Iran. Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA) reports that Dowlatabadi maintained ...
Death Sentence has been upheld for a prisoner charged with espionage
Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi commented on the cases of a number of recent arrests and detained journalists in Iran and stated that a prisoner has been sentenced to death for espionage./ ...
Writers Urge Iran To Free Newspaper Editor
Over 150 writers, translators, journalists, and other literary figures have signed a letter to the head of Iran's judiciary demanding the immediate release of the editor in chief of a reformist newspa...
Iran: Seven Journalists Arrested within a Week
Within a few days after the arrest of the investor and four journalists of Iran's Shargh daily, the fifth member of the reformist newspaper was detained along with yet another reporter, bringing the t...
