Thursday, March 12, 2015

Iran: 153,000 jobless in only one province

17 percent of whole population in northern Khorasan are jobless
An Iranian MP from Khorasan province revealed that %17 of the 900,000 population of his constituency are jobless. Servati, a parliament member from northern Khorasan admitted that there are more than 150,000 jobless in that province alone in which only 37,000 of them have been registered with the province for job market and the rest have no hope of finding a job anytime soon. 

Iran: A Baha’i woman arrested in Varamin

Suppression of Bahai citizens in Iran
According to activists reporting from Iran, Laleh Mehdi-nejad, a Baha’i woman was arrested by the state security agents on Monday March 9 and transferred to the infamous intelligence ministry prison after her house was viciously searched and her property including computers and notebooks confiscated. She has been reported to have been transferred to the notorious Evin Prison , political prisoners’ ward following the preliminary interrogations at the intelligence ministry prison.