Nasrin Sotoudeh, the Iranian lawyer and human rights activist, was jailed in Iran from 2010 to 2013 for the charge of “acting against national security”. During her imprisonment, she went on several hunger strikes to force the authorities to accept her legitimate demands. Her second hunger strike, which lasted 49 days, was aimed at lifting […]
Tag: Human Rights
This week in human rights in Iran (December)
Political rights On November 30, Mehdi Karroubi, one of the leaders of the Green Movement, asked Ali Motahari to pursue his case in a public court. Motahari had recently expressed disagreement with the Supreme Leader over the treatment of Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, labeling their ongoing house arrest since 2011 as unjust.On Student Day […]
Human Rights Documents Lack Islamic Logic: Iran Official
Chief of the Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani complained about the Islamic logic’s exclusion from the international documents on human rights. The world needs a worldwide idea on human rights by taking into account the diverse cultures, Larijani said on Monday, addressing an international conference on the negative impacts of economic […]
Jailed activists assess government’s record on rights
Five jailed Iranian activists issued a statement marking Human Rights Day on December 10, commenting on the state of human rights in Iran. Abdolfattah Soltani, Saeed Madani, Mehdi Khodayi, Keyvan Samimi and Saeed Razavi issued a statement commending “the relative efforts of the Iranian administration toward improving the situation” in Iran. The expressed support […]
Amended law could reduce drug-related executions
Iran’s Commissioner of Human Rights Mohammad Javad Larijani says his office is making a concentrated effort to change capital punishment linked to drug charges, which would result in a considerable decline in executions in Iran. The Islamic Republic has been repeatedly criticized by international organizations and Western countries for the high number of executions in […]
UN Resolution on Human Rights in Iran Passes by 78-35 Margin
On November 18, 2014, the United Nations General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted a Resolution on the promotion and protection of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran with a vote of 78 in favor, 35 against and 69 abstentions. The text of the Resolution calls upon the Iranian government to cease executions not […]
Lawyers protest in solidarity with suspended colleague
A group of Iranian lawyers stages a sit-in in front of Iranian Bar Association offices in Tehran to protest the suspension of human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh’s licence. The group that gathered at the Bar Association on Tuesday November 18 included many of Sotoudeh’s peers from across the country as well as several civic […]
Iran allows rights rapporteurs to visit country
Islamic Republic authorities have accepted a request to let two UN Human Rights rapporteurs visit Iran in the coming year. The deputy of the Iranian judiciary, who attended the Human Rights meetings in Geneva along with the Iranian delegation, told the Fars and Nasim news agencies: “We have agreed that two UN rapporteurs […]
This week in human rights in Iran (October)
Women’s Rights Reyhaneh Jabbari was executed on October 25, drawing worldwide condemnation. Jabbari, who was in prison since 2007 and whose execution was postponed on October 1, was sentenced to death for killing a man she claimed tried to rape her. Domestic and international rights group have argued that the killing was in self-defense […]
Activist Mohammadi summoned to court
Iranian human rights activist Nargess Mohammadi has been summoned to Evin Prison Court for questioning. The Iran Human Rights Defenders Centre website reports that Mohammadi must appear in court on Saturday November 8, according to the summons. Mohammadi is one of the women who met with Catherine Ashton when the former EU foreign policy […]