Peace: the people’s priority in Iran

After the Gaza genocide and unleashing chaos in Syria, the US and Israel prepare to target Tehran next, leaving the Iranian people caught between foreign intervention and continued theocratic oppression, writes GAWAIN LITTLE

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Songs from Inside: Women inside notorious Iran prison fight for their rights – BBC World Service

Press release – CODIR AGM agrees peace and solidarity work priorities

At its Annual General Meeting this weekend delegates to the Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) conference called for opposition to war in the Middle East, while supporting the call of the Iranian people for peace and […]

Iran: New compulsory veiling law intensifies oppression of women and girls

December 10, 2024Iranian authorities have adopted a new draconian law that further erases the human rights of women and girls, imposing the death penalty, flogging, prison terms and other severe penalties to crush ongoing resistance to compulsory veiling, Amnesty International […]

 

IRAN TODAY Vol. 29, No.2, Autumn 2016 is published.

In this issue: – Editorial: Face Off Page 2 – Adherents to Monocracy in Iran Reject Democracy! Page 3 –TUC calls for solidarity with Iranian workers Iran Today interviews Owen Tudor Page 4,5 – Corruption, crisis and economic uncertainty  Page 6,7 – Steeled for the struggle Page 8, 9 – Teachers imprisoned for […]

Jailed Canada Academic In Poor Health, Says Family

SEP 2016 Friday 2ND posted by Morning Star in World A CANADIAN-IRANIAN professor jailed in Iran since June has recently been hospitalised and cannot walk, according to her family. Homa Hoodfar, who has rare neurological disease myasthenia gravis, was arrested […]

Canadian prof Homa Hoodfar, jailed in Iran, falls ill in solitary confinement

Authorities ‘are not prioritizing her health and do not intend to respect Homa’s due process rights’ By Susan Ormiston, CBC News Posted: Aug 29, 2016 11:27 PM ET Last Updated: Aug 30, 2016 6:11 PM ET A professor from Montreal who […]

Ebrahim Madadi sentenced to five years: ITF calls on Iranian government to drop charges

The International Transport Workers Federation, backed by 4.8 million workers, has called on the Iranian government to drop the charges against Ebrahim Madadi and Davood Razavi, from the Vahed Syndicate – the ITF’s bus workers union in Tehran. 18/08/2016 On […]

Iran: Women’s rights activists treated as ‘enemies of the state’ in renewed crackdown

10 August 2016, 19:15 UTC Iranian authorities have intensified their repression of women’s rights activists in the country in the first half of this year, carrying out a series of harsh interrogations and increasingly likening any collective initiative relating to […]

Shirin Ebadi’s letter to Federica Mogherini regarding the negotiations of the European Community with Iran, about human rights

Mon 8 08 2016 To: Ms Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the European Commission 8 August 2016 Dear Honourable Vice-President/High-Representative, As reported by Persian-language Iranian media, the government […]

Iran executes Sunni Political Prisoners

According to confirmed reports from Iran, at least 20 Sunni prisoners were executed by hanging in prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran, all of whom were charged with membership or cooperation with “Tohid and Jihad” group. These prisoners were […]

The 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran

In 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran suddenly locked down its prisons,where thousands of political prisoners were serving their sentences,some as long as seven years. Five months later, the prison authorities summoned the prisoner families and gave each a bag: […]

Iran is putting political prisoners’ lives at risk by denying them medical care

Iran’s authorities are callously toying with the lives of prisoners of conscience and other political prisoners by denying them adequate medical care, putting them at grave risk of death, permanent disability or other irreversible damage to their health, according to […]

Iran is putting political prisoners’ lives at risk by denying them medical care

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Monday 18 July 2016 Iran’s authorities are callously toying with the lives of prisoners of conscience and other political prisoners by denying them adequate medical care, putting them at grave risk of death, permanent disability or […]