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.
Tag: Rights
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 […]
Two Year Prison Sentence Upheld for Jailed Lawyer Mohammad Seifzadeh
Rahana – Mohammad Seifzadeh has been sentenced to 2 years in prison. According to his family, he is currently held in Ward 350 of Evin Prison and bail has been issued for his charge of illegally exiting the country. He had previously been sentenced to 9 years in prison and a ban on his […]
Letter by a number of Rajai Shahr political prisoners to the Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur
A number of political prisoners at Rajai Shahr prison have written a letter to Ahmed Shaheed, the Special Rapporteur to the Human Rights Council at the United Nations. Rassoul Badaghi, Masoud Bastani, Isa Sharkhiz, Ali Ajami, Keyvan Samimi, Heshmatollah Tabarzadi are 6 political prisoners who have written a letter to the UN Special Rapparteur.
U.N. Human Rights Rapporteur Forbidden to Enter Iran
The United Nations Human Rights Council appointed Ahmed Shaheed, former Maldives Foreign Minister, as the new special human rights Rapporteur to Iran on June 17. One day after this announcement the Iranian parliament’s (Maljles) committee on human rights declared that Shaheed will not be allowed to visit the country.
Iran human rights activist speaks after release
One of Iran’s most outspoken human rights activists, released on Monday, has told Amnesty International that his freedom isn’t the end of the story, because many Iranians remain unjustly imprisoned. When freed, Baghi said he told the other prisoners “although I am going, half my existence is still imprisoned with you”.
UN rights investigator may use other methods to prepare report on Iran
Bahman Keshavarz The head of the National Union of Iranian Court Attorneys said if the United Nations’ Special Human Rights Rapporteur is not allowed to travel to Iran, he will gather his data by other means.
sometimes numbers speak better than words
UKinIran – Human Rights Statistics; Two Years after Iran’s Election 0: number of UN Special Rapporteurs on human rights issues permitted to visit Iran in last 2 years. 1st: Iran is the first and largest prison of journalists in the world, according to Reporters without Borders.
UN rights investigator on Iran named
A former foreign minister of the Maldives, Ahmed Shaheed, was named United Nations human rights investigator on Iran on Friday, the first in nearly a decade.