Fereshteh Shirazi, women’s rights activist and member of the One Million Signatures Campaign, has been denied face-to-face prison visits and telephone contact with her family only a week after her arrest.
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Faranak Farid’s health continues to deteriorate in prison
Following the severe beating Faranak Farid endured from security agents, the cultural activist and poet from Tabriz is still experiencing difficulties with hearing in her left ear, according to HRANA. Considering the limitations at the prison’s medical facility and the lack of pharmaceuticals, concerns have raised that she may lose her hearing.
Incarcerated Civil Rights Activists on Hunger Strike in Tabriz
The security forces had arrested 30 people at the house of Mostafa Avazpour during the Iftar ceremony.
Ahmadinejad accountable for Iran’s Human Rights Crisis
Member states of the United Nations as well as the international media should focus on the ongoing human rights crisis in Iran as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York to attend the 66th session of the UN General Assembly, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today.
EU concerned over arrest of Iranian rights lawyer
Iran Focus – European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton voiced concern Thursday about Iran’s arrest of a prominent human rights lawyer, saying it signalled “the erosion of political and civil freedoms.”
Ebadi urges UN rapporteur to protest rights violations in Iran
Iranian human rights defenders have no security in terms of their lives or professions in Iran, writes Shirin Ebadi, the head of Iran’s Human Rights Defenders Centre, in a letter to Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on human rights for Iran.
“Kouhyar’s Crime is defending human rights”
The Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Kouhyar Goudarzi, a member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters has been detained in Iran for more than one month.
Iranian human rights lawyer arrested: reports
Iranian authorities have arrested the prominent human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani in Tehran, according to reports out of Iran.
Women’s rights activist severely beaten by plainclothes agents, in critical condition
Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR) – According to reliable reports from Tabriz, women’s rights activist Faranak Farid has been severely beaten by plainclothes agents at the time of her arrest.
Women’s Rights Activist Faranak Farid Arrested in Tabriz
Poet, translator and women’s rights activist Faranak Farid has been arrested in Tabriz.Faranak Farid, editor in chief of the banned publication Dilmaj, has been arrested.