Iranian lawyer Hassan Younesi was summoned today by Evin Prison authorities to serve out his one-year sentence for “propaganda against the regime and assembly and collusion to commit crime.”
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Photos: Shahzadeh Garden in Mahan, Kerman
Payvand – The magnificent Shahzadeh garden, located in Kerman desert, and known as “a corner in heaven” has been registered on UNESCO’s World Heritage List as one of the masterpieces of traditional gardens.
Free Speech and the Internet
The New York Times – As the United Nations has said, access to the Internet is a human right. A report by the U.N.’s special rapporteur presented last month to the Human Rights Council in Geneva warns that this right is being threatened by governments around the world — democracies included.
A Candid Discussion With Prominent Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Mohmmad Dadkhah On the Harsh 9 Year Prison Sentence Rendered Against Him
July 4th, 2011 – [Jaras-Farzaneh Barzpour] – Mohammad Dadkhah, prominent Iranian Lawyer and spokesperson for the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran has received one of the harshest sentences rendered by the judiciary in Iran. Dadkhah has been sentenced to 9 years in prison, banned for 10 years from practicing the law and […]
‘Voting For Ahmadinejad Was A Political Mistake’
Conservative blogger and journalist Mohammad Mohajeri, who used to write for the ultra-hard-line “Kayhan” daily, seems to believe it was wrong to vote for Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. He says those who made that “mistake” should now admit it:
Iran ‘annuls death term’ for Christian pastor
Christian Armenian Iranian women select a Christmas tree in Tehran in 2001. Iran’s supreme court has overturned a death sentence handed down to Yusef Nadarkhani, a Christian pastor accused of apostasy for having converted from Islam, his lawyer told AFP on Sunday.
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah has been sentenced to 9 years in prison
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah has been sentenced to 9 years in prison, a 10-year ban on the practice of law and university teaching, and flogging. Dadkhah is one of the founders, with Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, of the Center of Defenders of Human Rights. He was arrested less than a month after the 2009 […]
Families urge Iranian parliament to probe prison conditions
Iranian parliament has been urged to probe into the situation of Iranian prisons and the situation of political prisoners in a letter from prisoners’ families addressed to the parliament’s National Security Commission.
Reza Khandan: The Children Were Once Again Denied Face to Face Visitation With Their Mother Today!
Incarcerated lawyer and political activist Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan,
Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Letter to the Head of the Judiciary: “Your Judge Proved that Iranian Women Cannot Be Ignored!”
July 2nd 2011 – The Feminist School : Nasrin Sotoudeh , lawyer, human rights and women’s rights activist has addressed a letter to the head of Iran’s judiciary. Inspired by Paulo Coelho, Sotoudeh provides a beautiful narrative of the events that occurred after the presidential elections of June 2009.