Executions and Stoning Since last year’s disputed Presidential election, the Iranian government has instituted a hyped-up campaign of executions, virtually all of which have followed unfair trials. Amnesty International estimates that Iran executed 388 people in 2009, 112 of them in the two months following the election. In 2005, when Ahmadinejad took office, Iran [...]

By Peter Kenny  The Baha’i International Community said the harsh prison sentences meted out against seven Iranian Baha’i leaders are an unjust punishment against innocent people and an entire religious community. The five men and two women imprisoned were arrested in May 2008 and later charged with “spying for foreigners,” as well as “spreading corruption [...]

  Abdollah Momeni (left) and Majid Tavakoli are both reportedly on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin prison. July 30, 2010 A number of political prisoners incarcerated at Tehran’s Evin prison have reportedly gone on hunger strike to protest their treatment, including their transfer to solitary confinement and cancellation of family visits. The “Kalame” website, which [...]

  BERLIN — Tehran has used a small Iranian-owned bank in Germany to circumvent sanctions slapped on firms blacklisted for involvement in the Islamic republic’s missile programmes, a newspaper report said Monday. Citing unnamed Western officials, the Wall Street Journal said the European-Iranian Trade Bank AG (EIH) had done more than a billion dollars of [...]

by Hiedeh Farmani Hiedeh Farmani – Tue Jul 13, 9:05 am ET TEHRAN (AFP) – Many shops in Tehran’s main trade hub remained closed on Tuesday, even after a government compromise in a row over taxes. Last Tuesday most store owners in Tehran’s traditional bazaar went on strike, saying the government was trying to impose a 70-percent tax hike [...]

  Reza Kahlili, a self-proclaimed former CIA “double agent” inside Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, appeared in disguise at a Washington think tank Friday claiming that Iran has developed weapons-grade uranium and missiles ready to carry nuclear warheads. The pseudonymous Kahlili, whose previous accounts have been greeted with widespread skepticism, also said Iran was planning nuclear suicide [...]

Fifteen could still die in horrific sentence after being allegedly convicted of adultery Saeed Kamali Dehghan and Ian Black guardian.co.uk, Thursday 8 July 2010 21.01 BST Article history An Iranian woman at a protest in Brussels highlights the barbarity of death by stoning, in which women are buried up to their necks in front of [...]

(CNN) — Iran’s top human rights official said the Islamic regime is reviewing a sentence of execution by stoning for a woman convicted of adultery. “Sentences such as stoning will be closely reviewed and probably changed,” Mohammad Javad Larijani told Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency. Larijani was referring to the well-publicized case of Sakineh Mohammedie [...]

  Working towards the elimination of crimes against women and girls committed in the name of honor.  United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/C.3/59/L.25: 15 October 2004 In October 2004 the United Nations General Assembly passed an historic Resolution on the elimination of crimes against women and girls committed in the name of honor. Known as [...]

Since last week, after the passing of the unilateral law by America and the sanctions against Iran, airports in England, Germany, the UAE have refused to give fuel to Iranian planes