Incarcerated lawyer and political activist Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan,
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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.
Open letter to the newly appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran
Of one Essence is the human race, Thusly has Creation put the Base; One Limb impacted is sufficient, For all Others to feel the Mace. Iranian poet Saadi (~1200-1292) Dr. Ahmed Shaheed UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran c/o Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Palais […]
Hoda Saber’s last picture before death in prison
This picture shows Hoda Saber, the latest victim of the Iranian regime’s human rights violations. The picture was taken in Evin prison on 23 August 2010, a month after he was initially arrested. Saber, 52, a leading political activist, died after ten days on hunger strike in protest at the death of Haleh Sahabi, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Returning Mostafa Daneshjou to the prison camps of addicts in Sari
Today morning, Mostafa Daneshjou, the advocate of Gonabadi dervishes was sent back to Sari prison from the addicts’ camp.
Cellmates of deceased journalist Hoda Saber issue a statement describing the conditions that led to
Rahana – In a statement, Ward 350 prisoners announced that Hoda Saber was beaten on his eight day of hunger strike. Sixty-four Iranian political prisoners from Ward 350 of Evin Prison have issued an announcement declaring that Reza Hoda Saber, the jailed Iranian journalist who died on Saturday following nearly 10 days on a […]
Dervishes would visit Mostafa Daneshjou in Sari
Gonabadi Dervishes throughout the country travel to Sari city in Mazandaran to visit and meet their jailed brother and lawyer .