Narges Mohammadi, the deputy head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) co-founded by Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, was arrested on May 5 at her home in Tehran, according to her husband. Speaking to RFE/RL by telephone from Paris, Taghi Rahmani said the officers apparently arrived early in the morning with an arrest warrant....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's parliament is urging the judiciary to thoroughly investigate the death of a blogger in custody and monitor police stations to prevent further abuses. A parliamentary committee statement read during a Sunday session of the legislature called for a "special" investigation into the November death of Sattar Beheshti. It ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's state prosecutor has confirmed for the first time that a blogger who died in police custody last month had been beaten. Prosecutor Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi told reporters Monday that an investigation into the death of Sattar Beheshti has found that he was beaten from the day of his arrest. Ejehi said the beatings ...

By The Guardian Statement comes a day after Iranian parliament announces investigation into circumstances of blogger's death Iran's state prosecutor has said a jailed blogger died in police custody last week and that wounds were found on his body, the first official confirmation of his death while being held. The prosecutor's statement came ...

Following the death of "Sattar Beheshti", an Iranian blogger who was in custody of Iran's cyber police (FATA), a group of Iranian bloggers and MPs protested against police (NAJA) authorities' silence on the issue. Mansour Haghighat-pour, deputy head of the Iranian Majlis national security and foreign policy commission, firstly reacted over probing ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's semiofficial ISNA news agency is reporting that the policeman convicted of killing a blogger who died in custody in 2012 has been sentenced to three years in jail and another two in exile. Blogger Sattar Beheshti was detained Oct. 30, 2012 for alleged cybercrimes. He died November 3 with "signs of wounds" on his body. ISNA ...

Vienna, Mar 17, IRNA -- A planned dinner between European Union foreign policy chief Catherine and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Monday evening in Vienna has been overshadowed by Ashton?s recent unsanctioned meetings in Tehran. The dinner which has been called of by Zarif, was supposed to chart out the second round of talks between ...

Tehran Member of Parliament Mehdi Kochakzadeh has taken shots at the Ministry of Intelligence and the Foreign Ministry for allowing EU diplomat Catherine Ashton to meet with elements guilty of sedition. On Wednesday March 12, Kochakzadeh described Ashtons actions as worse than the policy of capitulation and insisted that Europeans have no right to ...

Tehran, March 12, IRNA Speaker of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) Ali Larijani on Wednesday strongly criticized the sneaky meeting of the EU officials in Tehran. Referring to an unofficial meeting of the European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton here, Larijani said the move was far from the degnity of the EU delegation. Rejecting comments ...

TEHRAN The highest-level European diplomatic visit to Iran in six years has ended, but controversy remained Tuesday about theEuropean Unionenvoys meeting with a pair of women activists. Political conservatives have lashed out at the meeting involving Catherine Ashton, the EUs foreign policy chief, and two women closely identified with the opposition....

The security officer who oversaw the case of Sattar Beheshti, the detained blogger who died three days into his arrest by Cyber Police, will stand trial in April for manslaughter in a court for government staff, says the Beheshti familys lawyer. According to IRNA, Giti Pourfazel reported that Beheshtis parents have received a summons to appear in ...

The family of Sattar Beheshti, the jailed blogger who died while in the custody of cyber police, has decided not to pursue the case through the judiciary. Giti Pourfazel, the lawyer for the family, told ISNA that the court has dropped the charge of first degree murder, and the family is not interested in pursuing a manslaughter case because their ...

An Iranian court has rejected accusations of premeditated murder against a policeman over the death in custody of an opposition blogger, the reformist Sharq daily reported on Wednesday. Sattar Beheshti, 35, died at the notorious Kahrizak prison a few days after he was arrested in October 2012 following criticism of the government in his blog, according ...

Iran news headlines on Tuesday include ambiguity of Iranian president'sabout his nuclear negotiator; issuing of indictments for defendants in case of Iranian blogger's death; Iran and Turkey stressing over expansion of economic cooperation; Rouhani visiting Kyrgyzstan next month; Iranian technicians completing jacket for south pars project; Iran ...

TEHRAN, Aug.20 (MNA) Indictments will be issued soon for the defendants accused of involvement in the death of Sattar Beheshti, an Iranian blogger who died in custody on November 3, 2012, National Prosecutor General Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei announced on Monday. Beheshti had been charged with spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic system,...

It is only two weeks since President Rouhani took office, but his foreign-policy line is well-established: Iran wants and will promote engagement with the West, including over nuclear talks. Rouhanis line, set out in his campaign and inaugural speech, was loudly reinforced by new Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif last weekend. Now the Supreme ...

Todays top stories in Iran include Ahmadinejad granted statue of nuclear technology day; Expediency Council member: former Iranian presidents not to run for presidential election; Interior Ministers statements on Iranian blogger death convince Iranian MPs; Iranian lawmaker: increasing gasoline rate due to not implementing secondround of subsidy; and ...

The mother of an Iranian blogger who died in custody has called on Iranian officials to make their investigation into his death public. Gohar Eshghi, the mother of Sattar Beheshti, told RFE/RLs Radio Farda that authorities have not allowed her to see her son's body. She accused authorities of torturing her son to death. Iran's parliament called ...

Irans parliament said the Tehran branch of the cyber police unit is responsible for the death in detention of a bloggerwho had criticized the Islamic Republics government, the state-runMehrnews agencyreported. The finding was stated in a report by a special commission set up in November to investigate Sattar Beheshtis death, and was read in a parliamentary ...

Irannews headlines on Sunday include Iran's Majlis calling for inquiry over Sattar Beheshti death;Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani remarks over slim chance of Assad regime to survive;Secretary of Irans Supreme National Security Council meeting with Afghan president in Afghanistans capital city;Iran's agricultural exports increasing despite sanctions;U....