On Thursday, 14 Farvardin 1393 (March 3, 2014) Gonabadi Dervish, Mr. Haghdadi who is allowed for leading a congregation in prayer in Sarayan county of South Khorasan Province, has been harassed by police and security forces when he was panning to attend Dervish ceremony of night before Friday during his Iranian New Year’s trip to the […]
Tag: Harassment
Arbitrary arrests, harassment of exile journalists’ families
Reporters Without Borders is very worried about the health of Fariba Pajoh, a journalist with various reformist newspapers and former contributor to Radio France Internationale. Arrested on 9 July, she is now in solitary confinement in Evin prison’s Section 209, which is controlled by the intelligence ministry. Pajoh had been in poor health ever […]
Rights groups criticize Iran for pre-election harassment
Human rights groups have criticized Iran for curbing dissidents and journalists before Friday’s presidential poll, the first since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election ignited popular fury in 2009. From the disqualification of high-profile candidates to controls on campaigning and televised debates, the authorities have done all they can to prevent any repeat of the unrest. […]
Harassment, restrictions and censorship limit election coverage
Reporters Without Borders condemns an increase in the Iranian government’s harassment of Iranian journalists in the final days before the 14 June presidential election and the restrictions imposed on the few foreign journalists allowed into the country to cover it. With just two days to go, the Iranian authorities still have not issued visas […]
Iran urged to end harassment of lawyer’s family
The Guardian – Nasrin Sotoudeh’s 12-year-old daughter and husband have been banned from leaving country, says Amnesty International
International rights group condemns harassment of Iranian union activists
The ongoing arbitrary detention of trade unionists and human rights defenders in Iran is cause for grave concern, says the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
End harassment of six human rights defenders in Iran
FIDH – The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Iran.
Impact of Harassment & Imprisonment on Children of Human Rights Activists
Asieh Amini, journalist and human rights activist once said: ”Our children aren’t civil activists or political activists. Nevertheless they experience double the suffering. They first suffer when their parents’ activism makes them aware of the hostility and violence and cruelty that exist in society. Then they suffer from the political violence imposed on their parents […]