Days of arrest:
Iran’s Supreme Court has approved a death sentence for Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani, a human rights group reported on Monday.
Iranian authorities have arrested another Gonabadi dervish in Fars Province, sources say.
In a strongly-worded letter to Tehran’s Chief Prosecutor, retired university professor Mohammad Maleki has expressed his outrage over the arrest of ailing human rights activist Narges Mohammadi.
More than 100,000 Iranian workers lost their jobs in the past year alone, says the head of Iran’s House of Labour.
The imprisoned head the political bureau of the outlawed Freedom Movement of Iran is said to be in dire physical conditions.
Iranian authorities have detained at least 26 people in the city of Ahwaz and its surroundings in the southwestern province of Khuzestan during the weeks leading up to the April 15 anniversary of a 2005 protest and subsequent crackdown.
Pro-opposition cleric Masoud Adib, has been detained in the holy city of Qom, according to reports.
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In a statement on Sunday, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Minister of State of Foreign Affairs Diane Ablonczy said Canada was “gravely concerned” that the execution of death row inmate Ghassemi-Shall “may be carried out imminently.”
Hamid Ghassemi-Shall, a dual national of Iran and Canada, faces imminent execution on espionage-related charges, sources told the Green Voice of Freedom on Sunday.
Nuclear negotiators for Iran and six world powers were making encouraging progress in bridging differences that have doomed previous meetings meant to reduce fears over Tehran's atomic program, diplomats close to the talks said.
An American man who suffered a heart attack on a flight from Dubai to Seattle is receiving medical treatment in Tehran after the plane diverted to Iran’s capital, the ISNA news agency reported on Saturday.
Student activist Hossein Taheri has been in prison since a month ago, according to opposition website Jaras.