Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Iran 1. On Tuesday 15th April 2014, Arash Mohammadi and Ayatullah Mehr-Ali Bigloo, two political prisoners held in central prison of Tabriz, started a hunger strike in protest against the persecutions of the families of political prisoners by the security officials.2. Mahmood Fazli, a prominent Azerbaijani activist, and […]
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Hossein Ronaghi’s Father Describing Evin’s Visiting Room Today: Everyone Was Crying. They Have Beaten Our Children
Following is an interview by the opposition site Kaleme with the father of imprisoned blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki after today’s visit in Evin with his son: Mr. Ronaghi, today was the weekly visiting day for Ward 350 prisoners, did you visit your son? did you see your son? Currently we are in front of […]
Iran Seeks To Offset Advancement Of Women In Medicine
“Parisa” is among the thousands of young women who have transformed the once male-dominated field of medicine in Iran. Whereas men made up 70 percent of the country’s medical students and physicians about 20 years ago, women have reversed the situation to the point that women like Parisa — who asks not to use […]
Iran Asks For UN Committee Meeting On Banned Envoy
Iran has requested a special meeting of a UN committee after the United States announced it will not grant a visa to Tehran’s new UN ambassador appointee. On April 11, Washington said it would not grant a visa to Hamid Abutalebi because of his links to the 1979-1981 Tehran hostage crisis when radical Iranian […]
FIDH: Judicial harassment of Mr. Hadi Esmaeilzadeh
The Observatory has been informed by the Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC) about the judicial harassment of Mr. Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, an Iranian human rights lawyer and member of the DHRC. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation […]
Weekly report on Human Right Violation in Iran (07-04-2014)
Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Iran 1. On Friday 25th March 2014, during the conference of UN Human Rights Council, Ahmad Shahid was voted by the majority of UN members to carry on as the rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran for the following year 2014-2015. Ahmad Shahid’s mandate of […]
EU Opens a new Chapter
The repeated international negative reports on the appalling conditions of human rights in Iran have gradually turned into a judgment of Hassan Rouhani and his administration. First UN Secretary General Banki Moon announced to the Security Council that Rouhani has not taken any effective steps in addressing human rights issues despite his promises on […]
UN experts urge Iran to give political prisoners medical care
United Nations human rights experts called Thursday on Iran to provide urgent medical care to two political prisoners, warning the seriously ill men risked dying in detention. The UN’s special rapporteur on the rights situation in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, and other experts voiced alarm at Tehran’s alleged denial of medical care for blogger Mohammad […]
Russia Says Deal With Iran To Follow UN, Not U.S. Rules
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov says that a possible barter agreement between Moscow and Iran would follow UN sanctions rules and not U.S. rules. Siluanov said on April 11 in Washington, where he is attending an International Monetary Fund/World Bank meeting, that Russia acts on “the basis of decisions made by the UN that […]
Iran, World Powers Holding ‘Substantial’ Negotiations In Vienna
Iran and six world powers are holding fresh talks in Vienna on a final accord aimed at ending doubts over Tehran’s nuclear program. EU foreign-policy chief Catherine Ashton’s spokesman, Michael Mann, said the two sides were holding “very detailed and substantial negotiations.” He added that negotiators were trying to make progress “as quickly as […]