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 […]
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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’ […]
UN Working Group Calls on Iran to Release the Opposition Leaders
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has issued an opinion “request[ing] the Government [of Iran] to release Hossein Mossavi, Mehdi Karoubi, [and] Zahra Rahnavard,” calling their detention “arbitrary (and thus prohibited).
Continuing the prevention of Mousavi and Rahnavard to contact their children
Total prevention of call contact between Mousavi and Rahnavard with their daughters is still continuing and these two besieged are not allowed to be informed about anything related to their children.
Opposition leaders’ children call for their release
The children of Mehdi Karroubi, MirHosein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, the three Iranian opposition leaders who have been under house arrest for close to two years, today demanded that the Islamic Republic authorities end the “violation” of their parents’ rights and release them.
Opposition leaders denied attending funeral of Rahnavard’s father
Zahra Rahnavard was allowed 15 minutes away from her house arrest on Saturday December 29 to visit her father Sadegh Kazemi, who had just passed away at a hospital in Tehran.
Concern grows for detained opposition leaders
Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has expressed grave concern regarding the health of Iranian political prisoners, including the condition of Iranian opposition leaders MirHosein Mousavi, Zahra Rahnavard and Mehdi Karroubi, who have been under house arrest since February of 2011.
Iran’s Security Apparatus Refuses Responsibility For the Food Supply of Detained Opposition Leader
In an alarming move, the security agents in charge of the house arrest of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mouavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard, have refused responsibility for providing the opposition leader and his wife with food for some time now, and instead made the family responsible for their food supply- this while […]
Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard Rendered Incommunicado Once Again
Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard have once again been rendered incommunicado for the past two weeks.
Release the Leaders of the Green Movement
With the passage of over 250 days since the leaders of Iran’s Green Movement Mehdi Karoubi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard were put under illegal house arrest, and while just a few more months are left for elections to the ninth Majlis, a number of current lawmakers have, in the last month, made […]