Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) said Sunday that authorities have arrested former Minister of Welfare and Social Security Parviz Kazemi for financial fraud. Kazemi resigned in 2006 after serving nearly one year under former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He then served on the board of directors of Capital Bank and was a member of the Board of Trustees of [...]
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Iran court sentences former prosecutor to 135 lashes for corruption
A court in Iran on Tuesday sentenced former prosecutor general Saeed Mortazavi to 135 lashes for corruption, according to the state run media . Mortazavi was a prosecutor who was accused of human rights abuses during the Arab Spring...
Amnesty: Iran is denying adequate medical care to political prisoners
Amnesty International (AI) published a new report on Monday claiming that Iranian authorities have been denying adequate medical coverage to political prisoners and prisoners of conscience. AI claims that Iran is putting these prisoners at grave...
UN issues revised 'Nelson Mandela Rules' on treatment of prisoners
The UN issued the Revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners Wednesday to improve the treatment of prisoners throughout the world. Ivan Šimonović, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, spoke on behalf of Secretary-General Ban...
Former Iranian prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi was acquitted Wednesday of murder charges relating to the 2009 killing of three prisoners which he oversaw. The prisoners were detained in 2009 for protesting against former President Mahmous Ahmedinejad's ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday announced a plan to end the practice of indefinitely banning men who have ever engaged in sexual acts with other men from donating blood. "With greater knowledge of...
JURIST Guest Columnist Masoud Mortazavi, St. John's University School of Law, Class of 2015, is the author of the fifth article in a twelve-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Mortazavi discusses the...
Iran impeaches labor minister over controversial appointment
The Iranian Parliament on Sunday voted 192-56 to impeach the country's labor minister, Abdolreza Sheikholeslami, because he appointed an official who was implicated in the deaths of anti-government prisoners in 2010. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [JURIST...
The Iranian government has executed two men convicted of killing three anti-government protesters in prison in 2009, according to a report Sunday by pro-government website Khabarnameh Daneshjooyan. The execution of the two prison officials was reported [AFP...
Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi has been named by multiple Iranian news sources as one of three top judicial officials who were suspended in connection with the torture deaths of three detained protesters, multiple Iranian media outlets reported ...