Human Rights Watch is urging Iranian authorities to “immediately and unconditionally” release immediately dozens of prisoners jailed in the northern city of Karaj. In a 59-page report released on August 19, the New York-based organization reviewed the cases of 189 people locked up in three prisons in Karaj, located 50 kilometers west of the […]
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HRW: Iran’s Civil Society Under Attack
The U.S.-based rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Iranian civil society has been subjected to a “campaign of repression” since the contested reelection of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in 2009.
HRW Calls For Release Of Jailed Iranian Teachers
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Iranian authorities to immediately free seven jailed teachers and to end the harassment of dozens of others.
Iran ‘orders elderly opposition head to jail’: HRW
AFP – Iran has ordered Ebrahim Yazdi, the elderly head of a banned opposition party and former foreign minister, to serve an eight-year jail term, a rights group said Friday, warning it could amount to a death sentence.