Bourse and Bazaar | AFP - Iran's vice-president in charge of environmental affairs has called for an explanation on the fate of more than a dozen activists arrested this year, state news agency IRNA reported Sunday. "We are not asking for their release or for their execution, we just want their fate to be clarified. This is part of their citizenship ...

IRNA Lawyer for Kavoos Seyed Emami's family Arash Kaykhousravi announced deputy interior minister for security affairs had met jailed environmental activists' families, adding the official had been assigned by a government 4-member committee to meet them. Kaykhousravi told Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Tuesday that the meeting took place ...

AP The widow of an Iranian-Canadian university professor who died under disputed circumstances in a Tehran prison has been stopped from traveling abroad, Canadas foreign affairs minister said Thursday. The death of Kavous Seyed-Emami in February sparked new anger in Iran over the treatment of those detained in prison, especially after nearly 5,...

IRNA Human Right Headquarters in a statement on Friday rejected allegations regarding Kavous Seyed Emamis suicide in custody as undocumented and antagonistic, saying that pursuing hostile policies under the cover of environmental activities is condemned. The statement issued with an aim of disseminating true information and shedding light on the ...

AP Irans semi-official ISNA news agency is reporting that the countrys president has ordered an investigation into recent suicides at some detention centers. The Wednesday report said President Hassan Rouhani ordered the ministers of Interior, Intelligence and the Judiciary and the countrys vice president for citizenship rights to report the results ...

IRNA It is quite clear for the Iranian Parliament members that Kavous Seyed-Emami, sociology professor at Iran's Imam Sadegh University, committed suicide while in custody, said senior member of Iran's Majlis (parliament). Hossein Naqavi-Hosseini, rapporteur of the Majlis commission on national security and foreign policy, elaborating on the details ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Tuesday, February 13, and picked headlines from 24 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.The top story in many newspapers today was President Hassan Rouhanis recent call for a referendum on certain issues where there is ...

AP Iranian lawmakers confirmed that an Iranian-Canadian university professor killed himself while he was in custody, the semi-official ILNA news agency reported Monday. The report quoted the head of parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, as saying some members of parliament, including moderate deputy ...

Reuters - Irans judiciary said on Sunday an Iranian-Canadian activist had committed suicide in detention because of the weight of evidence against him in a spying case, an Iranian news agency reported. Kavous Seyed-Emamis son on Saturday wrote on Twitter that his father, arrested on Jan. 24, had died in prison. Environmental activist Seyed-Emami,...