Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, June 25 Five South Azerbaijan national and civil rights activists who were visiting Tabriz to attend the funeral procession of Hassan Damirchi (Hassan Agha Azerbaijan) were arrested along the way of Tehran-Tabriz. According to GAMAC quoted from Gunaz Tv (the official media of South Azerbaijan), at least …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, May 22 Today is the twelfth anniversary of the bloody uprising of South Azerbaijani people against Fars Chauvinism on 22nd of  May 2006. Following years of mistreatment and discrimination at the hands of the Iranian government, on May 12, 2006, an Iranian newspaper with the name of “IRAN …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, May 20 According to Iran Human Rights Organization, A South Azerbaijani prisoner was executed in Isfahan Central Prison on Sunday morning 13th of May 2018. Jafar Firoozkhani from Hashtrud city charged with murder and sentenced to death in the general court of Najaf Abad city. Jafar Firoozkhani …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, Apr 20 In recent days, a number of artists, reporters and intellectual  from different part of Iran specially South Azerbaijan region  have supported  the legal demands of the South Azerbaijan people. Azerbaijani artist and actor Mr. Babak Nahrin reacted to the separation of the Heyran Mountain Pass …

Why Iranian Women Are Taking Off Their Head Scarves-By NAHID SIAMDOUST On Dec. 27, Vida Movahed stood bareheaded on a utility box on one of Tehran’s busiest thoroughfares, waving her white head scarf on a stick. Within days, images of the 31-year-old, who was detained and then released a few weeks …

Tabriz,South Azerbaijan, Mar 4 Bahraini security forces informed  on Saturday that they had arrested 116 people accused of belonging to a “terror” cell allegedly linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards,Times of Israeli reported. An official statement on state news agency BNA said that security services had in the process thwarted a number …

Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Feb 10 Three South Azerbaijani national and civil right activists were sentenced to jail and flogging because of attending at “Babak Castle” ceremony. These three South Azerbaijani activists have sentenced to “Four months of imprisonment and 40 lashes” during unfair judgments of the Iranian judiciary court in Kaleybar city. …

Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Feb 1 As images of Iranian women holding their hijabs aloft spread on social media, an influential activist said women are symbolically rejecting the wider “interference of religion” in their lives. Many Iranian women  are fighting against the most visible symbol of oppression and showed their protest without hijab against  …

Baku, North Azerbaijan, jan 31 134th birth anniversary of Mammad Amin Rasulzade , one of the founding political leaders of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was Commemorate in various Turkic country.   Rasulzade was born in the Novkhani township, Baku on January 31, 1884.   He participated in the creation of an …

ANKARA, Turkey Jan 12 At least 120 PKK terrorists were neutralized in counter-terror operations over the last one month across Turkey, according to the figures compiled by Anadolu Agency. Despite harsh winter conditions, security forces dealt a heavy blow to PKK terror organization with operations held from Dec. 1- Dec 31, …