Category: Sufi news

End arbitrary house arrests of Mousavi, Karroubi, and Rahnavard; free all prisoners of conscience

          The Iranian authorities should immediately release from arbitrary house arrest two former presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, his wife Zahra Rahnavard, author and political activist, and cease harassing or detaining without cause the couple’s two daughters and Mehdi Karroubi’s son, said the Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi […]

Kokab and Narges Mousavi Summoned to Evin Court| Mousavi’s Son-in-Law Threatened by Phone

          February 12th, 2013-(Kaleme) On the anniversary of the illegal house arrest of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and Zahra Rahnavard, Kokab and Narges Mousavi , two of Mir Hossein Mousavi’s daughters were contacted by phone and summoned to Evin court again.

Shahrokh Zamani barred from face-to-face visitation and phone calls

          Shahrokh Zamani, labor activist who was arrested on June 7, 2011, sentenced to 11 years in prison, and transferred to various prisons, is now banned from face-to-face visitations and phone calls. Zamani is a member of the Council of Representatives of Labor Organizations and the Painters’.

UN Rights Experts Urge Immediate and Unconditional Release of Opposition Leaders

          Today three United Nations experts spoke out against the continued detention of former Iranian presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi and cultural leader Zahra Rahnavard, as well as the recent detention and interrogation of their children. This Friday, February 15, will mark two years of the opposition leaders’ […]

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