In an interview with ISNA (the Iranian Student News Agency), the prominent Iranian lawyer Nemat Ahmadi lambasted Iran’s anti-drug law, calling it “lacking in preventive powers” despite its stipulation of the death penalty as punishment for drug traffickers. “We have no other laws about drug trafficking, and because the anti-drug law was passed […]
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Human Rights Documents Lack Islamic Logic: Iran Official
Chief of the Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani complained about the Islamic logic’s exclusion from the international documents on human rights. The world needs a worldwide idea on human rights by taking into account the diverse cultures, Larijani said on Monday, addressing an international conference on the negative impacts of economic […]
Human Rights Official: Ahmad Shaheed Not Allowed to Visit Iran for Biased Reports
Secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani said Tehran has banned visits by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, Ahmed Shaheed, because he has only parroted the allegations made by Iran’s enemies, but Tehran will welcome independent rapporteurs if they prove no to be pursuing a biased attitude towards the Islamic […]
Official Makes Rare Admission of Baha’is’ Equal Rights in Domestic Media
In a rare statement to the Iranian media on April 6, 2014, Javad Larijani, Head of the Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Council, admitted Baha’is in Iran are entitled to full and equal constitutional rights. Iranian officials, most notably Javad Larijani, have often made similar statements to foreign audiences, claiming that the persecution and […]
Judiciary Cancels New Year Furloughs in Retaliation for UN Reports and Ashton Visit
Against customary practice, the Iranian Judiciary prohibited New Year furloughs for political prisoners this year. According to Kaleme website, despite earlier promises by the Tehran Prosecutor, Head of the Iranian Judiciary Sadegh Larijani issued an internal memorandum ordering the denial of furlough for political prisoners. Officials at the Tehran Prosecutor’s office informed the families […]
Larijani Reveals Parts of Confidential UN Report and Verbally Attacks Special Rapporteur
Just weeks before the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran is scheduled to present his latest report at the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, the Head of the Iranian Judiciary Sadegh Larijani is again verbally attacking the Rapporteur, saying at a meeting of top-ranking judicial officials in Tehran on […]
26 Political Prisoners Warned Over Delaying Medical Treatment for Ill Prisoners; Do not Impose Double Injustice
26 political prisoners held in ward 350 of Evin prison, in a letter addressed to Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani warned over the physical condition of ill prisoners. In the latter, they pointed out as the victims’ families have suffered a double injustice because of medical negligence toward prisoners of conscience and political […]
Iranian Professor Publicly Refutes Government Claims on Human Rights
Tehran University Political Science Professor Sadegh Zibakalam publicly challenged Head of the Judiciary Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani’s recent remarks stating that Western countries’ criticism of Iran’s human rights record is in opposition to Islam. “Contrary to what is routinely said, I believe the criticisms raised against us about human rights have nothing to do with […]
Two Gonabadi Dervishes’s Letter to the Head of the Judiciary
Two Gonabadi Dervishes wrote an open letter to Iran’s Head of the Judiciary, Mr. Larijani, in which they protest against Dervish rights violations by Iranian judicial system.According to Majzooban Noor, in a letter addressed to the judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli-Larijani, two Gonabadi Dervishes residents of Shiraz, Saleh Moradi Sarvestani and Behzad Nouri have […]
Ward 350 Political Prisoners: We Are Witnessing The Gradual Death Of One Of Our Cellmates
15 political prisoners incarcerated in Evin Ward 350 have written to Chief Judiciary Ayatollah Amoli Larijani voicing their concernm and warning him about the dire health condition of on-hunger strike political prisoner Hossein Ronaghi Maleki. Hossein Ronaghi was arrested on December 13, 2009, during the unrest that followed the disputed presidential election of 2009. […]