Reporters Without Borders supports the appeal launched by Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s Center for Supporters of Human Rights for a “national dialogue on nuclear energy” in Iran. The appeal has been signed by around 100 well-known Iranian intellectuals, journalists and human rights defenders. “The issue of nuclear energy in Iran has always been left […]
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Nobel laureate calls mass execution illegal vengeance
Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi has spoken out against the mass execution of 16 convicts in Sistan-Baluchistan, saying their treatment violates legal procedures and highlights the Iranian judiciary’s lack of independence. In a letter to Ahmad Shaheed, the UN rapporteur on human rights conditions in Iran, Ebadi refers to the attack by the […]
Ebadi Calls On West To Improve Treatment Of Migrants
Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi of Iran has called on the West to improve its treatment of refugees fleeing conflicts in the Middle East and the Arab world. “These people are fleeing poverty. They are fleeing despotism. They are fleeing the oppression meted out by their governments,” Ebadi said while speaking at a […]
Arbitrary arrests, harassment of exile journalists’ families
Reporters Without Borders is very worried about the health of Fariba Pajoh, a journalist with various reformist newspapers and former contributor to Radio France Internationale. Arrested on 9 July, she is now in solitary confinement in Evin prison’s Section 209, which is controlled by the intelligence ministry. Pajoh had been in poor health ever […]
The Judiciary and the Prisons Organization are responsible for the lives of inmates
Shirin Ebadi, in her report for Farvardin 1392 [March-April 2013] on the human rights situation in Iran:The Judiciary and the Prisons Organization are responsible for the lives of inmates In her latest monthly report, Shirin Ebadi, human rights defender and winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, has reviewed the human rights situation in […]