Judiciary

Prosecutors allege that the head of the Ettela’at daily has acted against a directive of theirs which is based on a decision of the Supreme National Security Council.

The spokesman for the Judiciary said he could not reveal the details of the ruling.

Although some areas of JCPOA are far from perfect, exerting pressure on the government and the negotiators by some groups is quite unfair, Ayatollah Amoli Larijani said.

The number of Maragheh Fossils is 3,000, of which 1,500 fossils were sent to US for research, the environment chief said.

An attorney should get happy after winning a court case only if his victory makes a difference in the legal literature of his country, said Ali Saberi.

Afkham said Iran has always stressed that it considers the detention of its citizens for “breaching sanctions” illegal and in violation of international laws.

A Judicial official has said that the Iranian judges can log onto the Judiciary’s social networking site and have online interaction with fellow justices.

Araghchi said there is still no news about the fate of Iran's former ambassador to Lebanon who went missing in the fatal stampede.

The defendant has 20 days to appeal the ruling in a higher court.

Iran has put on trial young billionaire Babak Zanjani on corruption charges.

Rezaian was tasked with implementing a scenario orchestrated by a group of US Senators, Shafiei quoted an IRGC report as saying.

The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution has pardoned or reduced the prison sentences of as many as 630 convicts marking two Muslim feasts.

Nothing has been raised about the exchange of Jason Rezaian for Iranian nationals jailed in the US, Mohseni Ejei said.

Over the past 25 years, 90,000 prisoners found guilty of involuntary offenses have been released.

"What is wrong with a defendant or their attorney saying that the ruling issued in the case is not fair?" Motahari asked in the letter.

Rezaian is facing charges of espionage, collaboration with hostile governments, gathering classified information and disseminating propaganda against the Islamic Republic.

Mehdi Hashemi, son of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for security offences, bribery and embezzlement after his appeal was overturned.

A Saudi criminal court has sentenced two Saudi officers who molested two Iranian teenagers at the Jeddah airport to four years in prison and 1,000 lashes.

The Supreme Leader has pardoned or commuted prison terms of 102 convicts that had been found guilty by the Iranian Armed Force’s judiciary system.

Images of a convicted killer being spared by the family of the murder victim.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei has granted clemency or commuted the sentences of a number of convicts.

The crime being committed in different parts of the region and Yemen today is a scandal for those who claim to be supporters of human rights, said the Judiciary spokesman.

The decision was in response to a request by Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani.

The Supreme Leader has pardoned or commuted the prison terms of 809 convicts in a move to mark the anniversary of the formation of the Islamic Republic (April 1).

The secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council has said the responsibility to protect people under house arrest lies with the security apparatus.