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Iran Probe By Shahin Zoghi Tabar Friday, 16 December 2016 When I was a small child I was forced by my school principles to take part in mass prayers. If the teachers asked about praying I would answer, “No, I haven’t.” Then they would beat me with a ruler on my…

Iran ProbeThursday, 9 August 2016 Dr. Mohammad Malaki, a human rights advocate and first dean of Tehran University after the 1979 revolution in Iran, in an recent interview with al-Arabiya.net from Tehran condemned the mass execution of 25 Sunni Kurdish activists as a “crime against humanity.” Malaki criticized the international…

By Allan Hogarth, Head of policy and government affairs, Amnesty International UK, The GuardianSunday, 17 July 2016 UK prime minster Theresa May. ‘[Her] new government needs to ensure that the plight of these and other detained British nationals in Iran are now made a key focus of the UK’s bilateral relations…

By Saman Naseem, Amnesty InternationalMonday, 11 July 2016 With a new trial set for 12 July, Saman Naseem – who featured in Amnesty’s global letter-writing campaign Write for Rights in 2015, sends a message to his supporters. Last year, hundreds of thousands of people around the world showered Iran’s authorities…

By Staff Writer, Iran ProbeWednesday, 22 June 2016 Brigadier General Mostafa Ahmed al-Sheikh, Chair of the Free Syrian Army Military Council and former commander of the chemical branch and security officer of the northern region in Syria, is the first general to have separated from the Assad army and joined…

By Hengameh Haj Hassan For some time I was working at Sajjad Hospital located on Dr. Fatemi Square. One night armed security personnel had rushed three teenage boys with a bullet wound, saying they are PMOI supporters and were shot because they had resisted being arrested. We took all the…

By Hengameh Haj Hassan  In Tehran’s Sina Hospital we continued our political activities promoting the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) cause until June 20, 1981. This is a historical day for Iran that unveiled Khomeini’s viciousness for all of history. On this day I was working at the hospital…

Iran ProbeSunday, 15 May 2016 By Afshin Baymani, a political prisoner in Gohardasht Prison – Karaj, west of Tehran Sixteen years ago when I was in solitary confinement, after a few months of interrogations and being kept incommunicado, one day I asked my case interrogator what have I done and…

Iran ProbeTueseday, 10 May 2016 By Mrs. Sho’le Pakravan, the mother of Reyhane Jabbari Jabbari was executed by the mullahs’ regime for killing in self-defense an intelligence agent who sought to rape her. We held a small gathering of mothers of Iran’s martyrs and political prisoners at the home of…

NationalMonday, 9 May 2016 A young Iranian man who rejected Islam and moved to New Zealand has avoided deportation and been granted refugee status in a precedent setting immigration case. The man, whose identity is protected for legal reasons, is now in his twenties and moved to New Zealand during the 2000s for schooling…