“Speak the truth and shame the devil.”Dear Dr. Ahmad Shahid,What compelled me to write this letter is the fact that we share a common background serving as diplomats for our countries. Such commonality brings us closer together and encourages mutual understanding of a single issue.
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Dublin : Front Line’s Mini Marathon Team for 2011 ran for Nasrin Sotoudeh
Dublin : Front Line’s Mini Marathon Team for 2011 ran for Nasrin Sotoudeh Photograph by Maryam Hosseinkhah
Right to Education Council: Banning Students From Education Is A Crime
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran – The Right to Education Council, a student run campaign, has released a statement objecting to the continued arrests of students and education bans placed on youth because of their beliefs.
Iran rejects appointment of UN human rights investigator
Head of Iranian judiciary’s Human Rights Council says any international body that appoints a special human rights rapporteur for Iran is acting illegally.
Journalist Issa Saharkhiz Warns: They Plan To Kill The Protesting Prisoners Silently And Gradually
Prominent journalist and one of the founders of Society for the Defense of Press Freedom in Iran, Issa Saharkhiz, has written a letter from Rejaei Shahr prison to the UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur Dr. Ahmed Shaheed urging him to take immediate action and travel to Iran.
Pressure on Sotoudeh Continues: In-Person Visits With Children Prevented
“This week, while we were having our booth visit and before we found out they were not going to allow the children to have an in-person visit, Nasrin was observing our young son’s acting up. She knew the reason for this, that Nima suffers in the atmosphere of booth visits. She said then: ‘if […]
Free Speech and the Internet
The New York Times – As the United Nations has said, access to the Internet is a human right. A report by the U.N.’s special rapporteur presented last month to the Human Rights Council in Geneva warns that this right is being threatened by governments around the world — democracies included.
Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Letter to the Head of the Judiciary: “Your Judge Proved that Iranian Women Cannot Be Ignored!”
July 2nd 2011 – The Feminist School : Nasrin Sotoudeh , lawyer, human rights and women’s rights activist has addressed a letter to the head of Iran’s judiciary. Inspired by Paulo Coelho, Sotoudeh provides a beautiful narrative of the events that occurred after the presidential elections of June 2009.
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 […]
Families urge human rights rapporteur to urgently meet with prisoners on hunger strike
GVF – In a letter to the special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, the families of a number of political prisoners currently on hunger strike have expressed concerns over the health of their loved ones in prison. They have urged the investigator “to travel to Iran and monitor the situation of the twelve […]