Spring of freedom

Thousands of women are held in horrible situation in Assad regime’s prisons The Syrian Network for Human Rights on Friday, March 8 th  issued a statement to mark the Women’s Day calling for the release of 7,721 women who have been detained by the Assad regime. The statement reads: “sexual exploitation of female inmates in prisons is continuing. At least half million people including 13,500 women are held in Assad’s notorious prisons.” Syrian Network for Human Rights said many dissidents in Assad prisons have been either killed under torture or have been executed. Syrian Network for Human Rights is an independent, neutral, non-governmental, non-profit human rights organization, which aims to document the ongoing human rights violation in Syria. Read more: Orient News reported on March 9, 2019, that thousands of demonstrators took to the streets on Friday (March 8) in Aleppo countryside, calling for the immediate release of women detainees at the Assad regime’s detenti...

Truckers in cities across Iran are launching a new round of strikes Truckers in cities across Iran are launching a new round of strikes, protesting not receiving answers to their demands and seeking the release of their arrested colleagues. In Najafabad, central Iran, truckers are on strike according to a previously made announcement encouraging all drivers to park their vehicles and launch a nationwide protest movement. One driver says heavy trucks cannot be see on the Isfahan road, indicating all drivers are joining force to send a message to the authorities. One truck driver says heavy trucks cannot be seen on the Isfahan road Truck drivers  launching a 4th nationwide strike Najafabad, central Iran, truck drivers are on strike   Read more: Truck drivers across Iran were steadfast on their nationwide strike in their last round for 21 consecutive days back in early October. Reports indicated regime officials in the Ministry of Roa...

Hashem Khastar, a known teachers’ union activist in Iran Following the abduction of Hashem Khastar, a known teachers’ union activist in the city of Mashhad, northeast Iran, and the Revolutionary Guards ( IRGC ) intelligence confining him in a psychiatric hospital his wife and child were finally permitted to visit him. “On Thursday, I went to the courthouse for permission to visit my husband, Mr. Seyed Hashem Khastar, in Mashhad’s Ebn Seena Hospital. There was no file or records about this arrest. I spoke to the deputy public prosecutor about my husband’s arrest and he said they had not issued any orders for his arrest. I spoke with another deputy public prosecutor and he said we had not given any orders either. I received the same answer from the Intelligence Ministry, the IRGC intelligence and the police,” Mrs. Sedighe Maleki-fard said. “The Social Emergency unit arrested him outside his orchard and took him straight to the Ebn Seena Hospital. They took blood from him and g...

Hundreds of people, including a large number of women, were arrested in the protests gathering of dervishes in Tehran Seventy of the women arrested during the dervishes’ gathering in Golestan Haftom Ave. in Tehran, have been brutalized and taken to the Quarantine Ward 3 of the notorious Qarchak Prison in Varamin. With 40 women already detained in this ward, the addition of the new arrestees makes the ward overcrowded. There is no information available on the fate of other women arrested in the dervishes’ gathering. Hundreds of people, including a large number of women, were arrested in the protests gathering of dervishes in Tehran when suppressive forces attacked them on Monday night, February 19. The raid lasted until Tuesday morning, February 20, 2018. The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran strongly condemns the mass and arbitrary arrests of protesters. It calls on relevant international organizations defending human rights and women’s...

The demonstrators while holding posters and placards demanded the release of Soheil Arabi IRAN,TEHRAN , Monday morning, October 2, a protest gathering was staged in front of the Iranian regime's parliament in response to a call by the mother of Soheil Arabi, a political prisoner who is on dry hunger strike in  Evin Prison  .  The demonstrators while holding posters and placards demanded the release of Soheil Arabi and all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience as well as civil and guild activists. Dr. Mohammad Maleki, the first president of the Tehran University after the anti-monarchial revolution, sent a message of support to the protest gathering and said: “ 'Our dear friend, Soheil Arabi, has been on hunger strike for several days because his legal and legitimate demands are not fulfilled and everyone knows that hunger strike is very dangerous.” Mr. Maleki added: “The innocent mother of this son, after appealing to various organization...