National Council of Resistance of Iran

Iran regime executes man despite appeal by rights group

Details: Saturday, 09 April 2016 17:32

NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime on Saturday executed student Rashid Kouhi despite an appeal by Amnesty International for the sentence to be halted.

Mr. Kouhi, 36, was executed earlier in the day on Saturday in Rasht’s Lakan Prison in Gilan Province, northern Iran, sources said.

25 rights groups, personalities urge UN to protect Camp Liberty residents

Details: Saturday, 09 April 2016 14:39

NCRI - More than two dozen human rights organizations and personalities have sent a joint letter to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressing concern over the plight of Iranian dissidents besieged in Camp Liberty, adjacent to Baghdad International Airport in Iraq.

Emphasizing their support for the residents of Camp Liberty, members of the main Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), the co-signatories refer to the numerous rocket barrages staged against the camp and the necessity for an independent probe into these crimes. The Iraqi government is called on to recognize Camp Liberty as a refugee camp to prevent any further such attacks and to lift the cruel siege imposed on these refugees.

Egypt ‘concerned’ about Iranian arms for Houthis in Yemen

Details: Saturday, 09 April 2016 14:24

Egypt is concerned about reports of Iranian arm shipments to Yemen in the past few weeks at a time when there are international efforts to bring about a ceasefire in the conflict there, the Egyptian foreign ministry said on Thursday.

In a statement, foreign ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid said that the ongoing smuggling of arms, in violation of UN Security Council resolutions, reaffirms Egyptian concerns about the Iranian regime's "regional behaviour," Ahram Online reported on Friday.

Iran regime plans to execute juvenile offender

Details: Saturday, 09 April 2016 14:17

Iran's regime is planning to execute Amanj Veisee for a crime he committed at the age of 15, Rebecca Carr of Amnesty International's 'Children's Human Rights Network' says.

"At his retrial in December Juvenile offender Amanj Veisee was resentenced to death for the murder of his cousin – despite an official forensic report concluding that he had not attained ‘mental growth and maturity’ at the time of the crime," Ms. Carr wrote on the website of Amnesty International UK.

Germany charges 2 Iranians with spying on opposition members - AP

Details: Friday, 08 April 2016 21:40

The Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have filed espionage charges against two Iranian men accused of spying on exiled opposition members for Iranian intelligence.

Federal prosecutors said Friday that the indictment against 31-year-old Maysam P. and 33-year-old Saied R. was filed March 22 at a Berlin court. The two men's full names weren't given in keeping with German privacy rules.

NCRI calls on Italian PM to cancel trip to Iran - The National

Details: Friday, 08 April 2016 22:07

The Iranian Resistance has called on Italy's prime minister to cancel a visit to Iran next week amid fears it will be used by Tehran to legitimize human rights violations in the country, Scotland's The National reported on Friday.

"Iran has an economy worth $400 billion (£283.8bn) and European countries are keen to re-establish trade ties," the paper wrote.

UK, Euro MPs call attention to Iran human rights abuses

Details: Friday, 08 April 2016 15:04

NCRI - In a webinar hosted by ncr-iran.org on Thursday, April 7, British and European lawmakers discussed the appalling human rights situation in Iran and Tehran's increasingly destabilizing role in the region.

The conference was moderated by Ms. Dowlat Nowrouzi, the UK Representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The guests were Lord Carlile of Berriew QC CBE from the United Kingdom’s House of Lords, Mr. Steve McCabe MP from the UK House of Commons and Mr. Egidijus Vareikis, a Member of the Lithuanian Parliament.

IRAN, April 8: Massacre of PMOI (MEK) members in Camp Ashraf, Iraq

Details: Friday, 08 April 2016 12:08

NCRI - April 8 marks the 5th anniversary of the massacre of Iranian opposition activists in Camp Ashraf by the Iraqi Army on the orders of then Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki at the behest of the Iranian regime.

Eight unarmed and defenseless women, all members of the main Iranian opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), were either shot at close range or crushed to death under the wheels of armored vehicles when Iraqi forces stormed Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad, on April 8, 2011.

Iranian regime ramps up IRGC forces and army in Syria in preparation for operations in Aleppo

Details: Friday, 08 April 2016 10:51

A group of IRGC forces deployed in Sheibani Base to protect Bashar Assad's palace

According to reports obtained from inside the Iranian regime, Khamenei has dispatched hordes of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and mercenary militias, as well as groups of the regime’s army to Syria to launch new attacks against the opposition and the Free Syrian Army (FSA), especially in Aleppo province. Khamenei is extremely fearful that following the relative cessation of hostilities pursuant to an agreement between the United States and Russia and a halt or significant decline of bombings in areas under the opposition control, the situation would return to prior to September 2015 where Assad's army and the IRGC were fleeing FSA forces.

Amnesty: Iranian man to be imminently executed denied the right to appeal

Details: Friday, 08 April 2016 14:19

The scheduled execution of a 36-year-old man tomorrow, Saturday April 9, demonstrates the Iranian authorities’ utter disregard for the right to life and their determination to continue with a staggering execution spree that saw nearly 1000 people put to death last year, Amnesty International has said.