The Iranian authorities must release a journalist and prisoner of conscience who has been on hunger strike since 26 May in protest at being denied permission to visit his sick son, Amnesty International said.
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Iran: Death penalty for every case – ethnic protests, prisoners of conscience, drinking alcohol…
Karim Lahidji, vice president of FIDH and president of LDDHI, said : “The authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran are relentlessly pursuing their policy of state terror against any form of dissent by imposing and implementing the death penalty.
Prisoners of Conscience Could Die In Iranian Government Jails
Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), its Iranian affiliate (the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights) and Reporters Without Borders firmly condemn the inhuman treatment that human rights activists, journalists, netizens and other prisoners of conscience are receiving in Iran’s jails.
Iran sentences prisoner of conscience to 5 years of prison and 74 lashes for ‘insulting sanctities’
Freedom Messenger – Mohammad-Ali Taheri, the head of the deviated Halqeh Cult was sentenced to five years of prison on charges of insulting sanctities.
Liberty of conscience and its relationship with the tribal variations
Mehriran – Geneva: Speech during the September 2011 session of the UN Human Rights Council. “Iranian culture is like a carpet. A carpet which has a variety of colours and patterns, which are intertwined and interconnected.”