Tag: New Charges

Illegal Addition of New Charges Makes Death Sentence for Soheil Arabi More Likely

  New Charges Seem Aimed at Avoiding Commutation of Sentence In an arbitrary and illegal act, new charges that carry a death sentence and which do not allow a pardon were added and the death sentence of Facebook user Soheil Arabi was confirmed by the Supreme Court in Iran. “In a surprising act, the charge […]

Prominent Rights Defender Faces New Charges for Her Meeting with Ashton

  Narges Mohammadi, the prominent human rights defender and Deputy Head of the now-shuttered Defenders of Human Rights Center in Tehran, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that new charges have been brought against her stemming from her March 8, 2014 meeting with the EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. Mohammadi was […]

New Charge Against Dervishes: “Terrorist Group Formed Against the Regime”

  Four imprisoned Gonabadi Dervishes who appeared in Shiraz’s Revolutionary Court this morning on Tir 13, 1392 (July 4 2013) faced a host of new charges including “terrorist group formed against the regime,” “participating in protests to overthrow the Islamic Republic,” “Moharebeh (“Enmity against God”) and “carrying illegal weapons”!Two years after Kavar events, following the […]