Tag: UN Rights Experts

UN rights experts condemn the recent wave of arrest and sentencing of civil society actors

  GENEVA (8 August 2014) – United Nations human rights experts* today expressed grave concern over the recent escalating trend of arrest and sentencing of individuals exercising their rights to freedom of expression and opinion, peaceful assembly and association. Since 22 May 2014, at least 36 individuals that include journalists, bloggers, filmmakers and authors, many […]

UN Rights Experts Express Outrage After Recent Execution in Iran

  June 5, 2014: Following the execution of the political prisoner Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani for Moharebeh, a group of United Nations’ rights experts expressed outrage at the execution and urged the Iranian authorities to put an end to the death penalty. Iran: UN rights experts express outrage after recent executions and call for an end […]