Iran has temporarily released Nasrin Sotoudeh, an internationally renowned human rights lawyer who was jailed two years ago on spying and propaganda charges, the judiciarys news agency reported on Saturday. Sotoudehs release followed warnings last month by human rights groups that her health had severely deteriorated after she staged a six-week hunger ...

By Associated Press Political prisoners protest snap body searches, abuse by prison guards in main Tehran prison, opposition website says DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- At least nine Iranian women political prisoners have gone on a hunger strike to protest snap body searches and abuse by prison guards at the main prison in Tehran, according ...

It has been cancelled a European Parliament delegation visit to Tehran after the group asked to meet two Iranian activists awarded a top EU rights prize. A delegation of the European Parliament (EP) members was scheduled to make a six-day visit to Iran to hold talks with Iranian political figures, Press TV reported. While, Fars News Agency quoted ...

(Reuters) - Iranian security forces have released leading human rights advocate Nasrin Sotoudeh, who was detained after leading a protest against what she called unfair legal practices in the Islamic Republic, she said on Sunday. The lawyer and activist was picked up along with several friends on Saturday on their way back from a sit-in outside Tehran's ...

(Reuters) - Iranian security forces arrested world-renowned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and several others on their way back from a protest on Saturday, her husband said. "While returning from the sit-in outside the Bar Association in Tehran, Nasrin was detained along with several friends and colleagues," her husband, Reza Khandan, said on ...

The death of a reporter for Irans State outlet Press TV, in a road accident, has provided the platform for Irans latest denunciation of Turkey. Serena Shim, a US citizen of Lebanese origin, was killed on Sunday when the car in which she was travelling collided with a truck in Suruc in southeast Turkey. She had been reporting across the border from ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Iran summons Pakistan envoy over border guard deaths Iran has summoned the Pakistani ambassador to Tehran over a series of terrorist incidents that killed several Iranian guards at the Pakistani border.   Iran launches production line of 3 new radar systems Irans military ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency says a court has banned a prominent human rights lawyer from practicing her profession for three years. Nasrin Sotoudeh claims that her country's Bar Association has been under pressure to cancel her license to practice law since she was released from jail in 2013. Sotoudeh, a mother of ...

Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh says an order issued by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal gives her permission to resume practicing law. The case against Sotoudeh was pursued by the Tehran Prosecutor, who called for her licence to practice law to be revoked. Persian BBC reports that that the tribunal convened a few days ago to hear the case presented ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary of Irans Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani blasted the EU parliamentary delegation which recently visited Iran for their secret meeting with two Iranian dissidents at the Greek embassy, and said the EU delegation's behavior proved that the westerners have not changed their policy towards Tehran. The European ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 24 (MNA) A Parliament National Security and Foreign Commission member has said Foreign and Intelligence ministries are responsible for EU delegation antics. Mehdi Davatgaritold Mehr News Parliament correspondent the EU parliamentary delegation visited Tehran on an invitation by Kazem Jalali. The visit was in line with parliamentary ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 22 (MNA) Irans Parliament speaker has described the EU parliamentary delegation action as absurd and surreptitious. Mehr News reported that Ali Larijani addressed the issue of EU delegation meeting in Greece embassy with Nasrin Sotoudeh and Jafar Panahi. Since a long time ago, an EU delegation demanded that they visit Iran, which ...

Irans lead nuclear negotiatior, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, broke the silence about the technical talks on the interim nuclear agreement on Saturday he saidthere had been little progressin the discussions between experts of Iran and the 5+1 Powers. Araqchitold State TV, The talks that extended to a third day are making progress but slowly....

The Iran Project- Iranian lawmakers summonForeign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif andIntelligence Minister Seyed Mahmoud Alavi to explain over EU Parliamentarians trip to Iran. Iranian hardliners have criticized the Foreign Ministry for a meeting between the European Parliamentary delegation and lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and filmmaker Jafar Panahi. The ...

The Iran Project- A delegation from the European parliament has traveled to Tehran for a six-day visitto meet with Iranian lawmakers and officials including a group of female MPs, representatives of nongovernmental organisations, and human rights activists. The aim of this visit, which began on Thursday, is to strengthen relations. It was the first ...

The European Parliament, the European Unions only directly elected body,nominatedMr. Snowden for the prize late Monday. The others in contention include Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl who was 14 when the Taliban shot her in October but survived to become a potent voice in the struggle for education rights for women; Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, a former ...

Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been released two years into her six year prison sentence, according to her husband. At least seven more political prisoners have also been reportedly set free. "It's not a temporary release, it's freedom. They put her in a car and dropped her off at the house,"Sotoudeh's husbandReza Khandan ...

A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer was returned to prison on Monday, unexpectedly curtailing a three-day temporary leave to visit her family, which was expected to be extended. Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has been serving a six-year prison sentence since September 2010, was granted her first furlough from Tehrans Evin Prison on 17 January on production ...

(Reuters) - JailedIranian lawyer and rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh was temporarily freed on Thursday for three days after more than two years in prison, her husband and an opposition news website said. Sotoudeh has been serving a six-year prison sentence after being arrested in September 2010 and convicted of spreading propaganda and conspiring ...

For Iran, 2012 will go down as the year of economic woes. The mantra of the enemys psychological war against Iran will no longer be blamed more than internal mismanagement even by the most ardent supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The resistance economy against the economic war unleashed against Iran has become the name of the game. Several years of ...