MNA The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei has donated 4 billion rials to the Blood Money (Diya) Organisation to help the needy prisoners who have committed involuntary crimes. According to Khamenei.ir, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei donated 4 billion rials ($27,000) to the Diya (Blood Money) organization ...

IRNA The check issued to award compensation to the family members of those Iranian pilgrims killed in Mecca in 2015 has been delivered to Saudi representative in the United Nations and will soon be given to Iran, said the head of Iran's Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization on Monday. Mecca and Medina, two of the three holiest Islamic sites, host roughly ...

IFP- In his first press conference, Reza Salehi Amiri, the Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, explained Irans conditions to resume sending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. The Islamic Republics official policy is to ensure that the dignity and security of its pilgrims is guaranteed in Hajj pilgrimage, he noted, according to a report by IFP....

The head of Irans Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization says Saudi Arabia continues to withhold all cooperation toward compensating the victims of a deadly crush during Hajj pilgrimage rituals last year. At least 465 Iranian pilgrims lost their lives during the deadly crush, which occurred after two large masses of pilgrims converged at a crossroads ...

The Guardian Council has ratified a bill on third party insurance coverage which states that equal blood money shall be paid for both men and women. According to Entekhab News, the spokesman for the Economic Committee of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Parliament) proposed that equal male and female restitution be paid, as laid out in the bill ...

Tehran, December 17, The Iran Project- An imprisoned woman devotedthemoney, wasdonatedto pay her own debts after six years of imprisonment, to savingher cellmate's life from the death penalty in a prison in Tehran. A 34-year-old woman, who had been convicted of murdering her husband in a criminal case about 11 years ago and was expectedto hang on ...

The practice, made possible under the Islamic sharia law of diya (restitution), allows a convict to be pardoned by a victim's family if they receive financial recompense. The payment of "blood money" spared 358 Iranians from execution last year, the country's prosecutor general said on Monday. The practice, made possible under the Islamic sharia ...