Often jailed, he was a tireless campaigner for democracy in Iran.Ezzatollah Sahabi arrives at the Iranian parliament in 2004. He led the Nationalist-Religious Coalition. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA The deaths of the prominent Iranian democracy activist Ezzatollah Sahabi, aged 81, and his campaigning daughter, Haleh, who died at his funeral, aged 54, have highlighted political tensions in […]
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New Report on Iran’s Prison Deaths Raises Concerns
Iran’s pattern of prison abuse and neglect demonstrates that the lives of prisoners of conscience are at risk, theInternational Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today, with the publication of a new report, Death in Prison: No One Held Accountable. The Campaign holds Iranian authorities at the highest levels accountable for the health and […]
Iranian cleric urges prisoners to end hunger strike
Iranian senior cleric Ayatollah Bayat Zanjani has told political prisoner Mohammad Javad Mozaffar that he and other hunger strikers have a religious duty to end their dangerous protest.
Iran’s young take to Gandhian studies
The Times of India – Mahatma Gandhi’s thoughts continue to be an inspiration for citizens across the globe, as is visible in the enthusiasm of students from other countries who come to Panjab University for pursuing PhD from the department of Gandhian Studies.
U.N. Human Rights Rapporteur Forbidden to Enter Iran
The United Nations Human Rights Council appointed Ahmed Shaheed, former Maldives Foreign Minister, as the new special human rights Rapporteur to Iran on June 17. One day after this announcement the Iranian parliament’s (Maljles) committee on human rights declared that Shaheed will not be allowed to visit the country.
Iran human rights activist speaks after release
One of Iran’s most outspoken human rights activists, released on Monday, has told Amnesty International that his freedom isn’t the end of the story, because many Iranians remain unjustly imprisoned. When freed, Baghi said he told the other prisoners “although I am going, half my existence is still imprisoned with you”.
UN rights investigator may use other methods to prepare report on Iran
Bahman Keshavarz The head of the National Union of Iranian Court Attorneys said if the United Nations’ Special Human Rights Rapporteur is not allowed to travel to Iran, he will gather his data by other means.
Iran gets the hump over camel price link to accident payouts
Iran’s judiciary causes national row by doubling compensation for fatal road accidents to the price of 100 camels. Camel compensation … Iran’s insurers and motorists are up in arms over a decision by the judiciary to link compensations payments for accidents on Iran’s high-speed roads to the market price of camels. With soaring fuel […]
The Women Who are Political Prisoners
On Wednesday, lawyer and activist Shadi Sadr spoke about the situation of the women who are political prisoners in Iran: Exactly two years ago today, the largest protesting demonstration of the Iranian people after the 1979 revolution took place between Enghelab or Revolution square and Azadi or Freedom square.
UN rights investigator on Iran named
A former foreign minister of the Maldives, Ahmed Shaheed, was named United Nations human rights investigator on Iran on Friday, the first in nearly a decade.