A pastor at the Central Assemblies of God (AoG) Church in Tehran, was arrested on Tuesday while conducting a prayer meeting at the church.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) said in a news release it has also received reports that the church may be forced to close by the end of June due to continued pressure from the Iranian regime's Ministry of Security and Intelligence.

In Amnesty International’s report on death penalty statistics across the globe in 2012, the section on Iran once again makes for grim reading. The Iranian regime under the mullahs' rule has the highest number of execution per capital in the world.

At least 314 executions were officially acknowledged by the authorities in 2012, but the real number is almost certainly much higher. More than 200 additional executions were reported to Amnesty International by reliable sources.

A political prisoner suffering from cancer has been refused medical treatment and family visits, reports from inside the Iranian regime have revealed.

Ali Moezi, 63, has been deprived of urgent hospital care for bladder cancer and bleeding kidneys, and visits from loved ones, for six months over his refusal to attend Iran's sham revolutionary courts, it was reported.

Iranian regime's henchmen has hanged a man on Wednesday morning in central prison of southern city of Bandar Abbas. The prisoner had been transferred to solitary confinement two days ago to undergo his death sentence.

Omid Shojaii, 30, was  married and had two children. He was hanged in the yard of the prison. He was among some hundred prisoners that are on death row in that prison.

The physical condition of two Gonabadi prisoners who are on hunger strike in Adel Abad Prison, in city of Shiraz, is reported very critical.

According to the wife of Saleh Moradi, he does not have the power to speak anymore.

Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nouri are on the 73rd day of their hunger strike and the second week of their dry hunger strike.

Secretary of State John Kerry, in a first-ever statement from his office on the case of imprisoned Iranian-American Saeed Abedini, called Friday for Abedini to be “immediately released” and said he is “disturbed” by reports that he’s suffered physical and psychological abuse at the Iranian prison where he’s being held.

The statement was released by Kerry late Friday afternoon, and it came after the attorneys representing Abedini’s family released a letter the Christian pastor sent to his wife describing how he was beaten and denied medical treatment because he was seen as "unclean" because of his faith.

Reuters - The United Nations agreed on Friday to keep investigating reports of human rights violations in Iran, a move welcomed by activists who report a crackdown ahead of presidential elections.

The U.N. Human Rights Council overwhelmingly voted to give its special rapporteur on the situation in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, another year to carry out his work.

The Iranian regime’s judiciary in city of Sarab, northwest of Iran, has sentenced a student to six years imprisonment on charges of distributing propaganda against the regime.

Babak Baqaii, a student in Tabriz University, was arrested on July 29 of this year in his father's house without an arrest warrant. He was then temporarily had been released on a 500 million Toman bail.

A political prisoner suffering from cancer has been refused medical treatment in hospital by regime officials in the city of Tabriz, north west Iran.

Mohammed Jarahi - who is serving five years for 'anti-regime' activities - needs urgent treatment for a highly aggressive thyroid cancer.

AFP - Human rights violations in Iran spiraled in 2012, a United Nations monitor said Monday, spotlighting abuses including repression of freedom of speech, torture and secret executions.

“The prevailing situation of human rights in Iran continues to warrant serious concern,” Ahmed Shaheed told the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Reuters - Iran has stepped up executions of prisoners including juveniles as well as arrests of dissidents who are often tortured in jail, sometimes to death, the United Nations reported on Thursday.

In twin reports issued in Geneva, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the U.N. special investigator on human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, voiced concern at what they called an apparent rise in the frequency and gravity of abuses in Iran.

The Iranian regime have began to implement the infamous “Public Security Plan,”  the deputy chief of the State Security Forces in Central Province has announced.

Iraj Kakavand whose remarks were reported by state-run Media on Saturday (Feb 23) said: "In line with developing the security towards the end of the year (Iranian year ends on March 20).

Agents of the Iranian regime's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) have arrested a number of Gonabadi Dervishes who gathered outside Evin Prison protesting the arrest of their lawyers.

Anti-riot guards had been stationed outside Evin prison since early morning on Thursday February 21 and the MOIS and plainclothes agents had controlled all routes leading to Evin prison in order to prevent the announced gathering.

The Iranian regime has publicly hanged 3 people this morning in Shiraz (South or Iran) bringing the number of executions to 27 in the past 3 days.

Another 3 were hanged in the City of Arak (Central Iran).