The European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought has been collected on behalf of the jailed Iranian human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh. It comes at a time of what many campaigners say is unprecedented pressure on the legal profession in Iran, reports BBC Persian’s Fariba Sahraei.
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Turkey, Iran, China top list as record number of journalists imprisoned globally, group says
More journalists than ever are languishing in prisons across the world as countries like Turkey, Iran and China step up terror and other anti-state charges to silence critical press, the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday.
Canada announces new sanctions against Iran
Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced more sanctions against Iran Tuesday, ramping up pressure on Tehran to scrap its nuclear program.
Iran temporarily shuts consulate after Afghan protest
Iran has temporarily shut its consulate in the Afghan city of Herat after protesters there attacked the mission’s compound, the official IRNA news agency reported Tuesday quoting a foreign ministry source.
U.N. nuclear inspectors to press Iran on military site access
U.N. nuclear inspectors will press Iran this week for a long-sought green light to visit a key military site, although suspected clean-up work may make it difficult to find evidence of any illicit atomic bomb research there.
Iran’s Security Apparatus Refuses Responsibility For the Food Supply of Detained Opposition Leader
In an alarming move, the security agents in charge of the house arrest of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mouavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard, have refused responsibility for providing the opposition leader and his wife with food for some time now, and instead made the family responsible for their food supply- this while […]
Activists call for minister’s resignation as second student dies
Eighty Kurdish political and civil activists in Iran have called for the resignation of the Minister of Education after a fire accident in an elementary school injured scores of students and, according to reports, has so far claimed two lives.
Earthquake Strikes Near Iran-Afghanistan Border
An earthquake measuring 5.5 in magnitude has struck eastern Iran. Iran’s Fars news agency said eight people had been killed and 12 injured in the quake on December 5.
Sanctions, government blamed for Iran’s drugs shortage
Doctors in Iran are trying to fend off a creeping health care crisis caused by medicine shortages, due in part to Western economic sanctions but exacerbated by government mismanagement and abuse of the system.
Interview with Ahmed Shaheed
The international pressure on Iran in human rights issues is ever growing. In a resolution of November 27th the United Nations Third Committee of the General Assembly has called on the government of Iran to stop its massive human rights violations.