Some reports indicate that a new round of arrests of youth and Internet activists has begun. Reports indicate that the interrogators and Intelligence officers, for reasons unknown, have desperately tried to keep these arrests from being publicized.
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Intelligence Ministry agents arrest 60 worker rights activists
Intelligence Ministry agents arrest 60 worker rights activists The detainees, arrested last Friday, are members of the Coordinating Committee to Help Form Workers’ Organization in Karaj.
Court Of Appeals Has Issued It’s Ruling For Three Political Activists In Tabriz
According to reports by the Human Rights Activists News Agency, East Azarbaijan political activists Ebrahim Farajzadeh, Reza Abri and Ali Hossein Tahamtan Iranegh, all arrested during the burial services of Changiz Bakhtavar on December 29, 2009, have been sentenced by the Court Appeals from six months to a year in prison.
Imprisonment and lashes for activists and defenders of The Ouromieh lake
HRANA – 37 defenders of the Ouromieh lake were sentenced to 18 years imprisonment and 1110 lashes. According to HRANA, the activists were sentenced a few days ago , 11-06-2012.
European officials intervene for jailed activists
The high-ranking members of the European Parliament have written to the Islamic Republic ambassador in Brussels to express concern regarding Nargess Mohammadi and 30 student activists jailed in Iranian prisons.
Activists call on UN rights commissioner to help prisoner
More than 350 Iranian political, social and media activists have called on Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, to help Iranian political prisoner Mohammad Seddigh Kaboodvand, who is currently on a hunger strike.
Activists demand release of their peer
More than 400 activists have issued a statement calling for the release of Manijeh Najm Eraghi, a jailed Iranian writer, translator and women’s rights activist.
Activists: Over 90 Killed in Syrian Government Shelling
Activists say Syrian government shelling since Friday has killed more than 90 people, including many children, in some of the worst violence since an uprising against Syria’s regime began more than a year ago.
Activists call for release of political prisoners for Norooz
Iranian activists have issued a statement urging the government to release political prisoners for Norooz, the Iranian New Year.
Mothers of Laleh Park denounce persecution of activists
The Mothers of Laleh Park and their supporters have issued a statement challenging the Iranian judiciary’s harsh sentencing of human rights activists.