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Urgent Action, Amnesty International March 4 WOMEN’S RIGHTS DEFENDER FACES 34 YEARS IN JAIL Prominent detained Iranian human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, faces up to 34 years in prison and 148 lashes, after two grossly unfair trials. The charges against her stem solely from her peaceful human rights work, including her defence of women protesting […]
Mar 06, 2019
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Iran: Release eight wildlife conservationists following unfair trial… Amnesty International, 5 March Wildlife conservationists in Iran who have been accused of espionage after using cameras to track endangered species could face the death penalty or more than a decade in prison, said Amnesty International, ahead of a verdict in their case in the coming days. The eight scientists, who are linked to the... -
Urgent Action: Nasrin Sotoudeh faces 34 years in… Urgent Action, Amnesty International March 4 WOMEN’S RIGHTS DEFENDER FACES 34 YEARS IN JAIL Prominent detained Iranian human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, faces up to 34 years in prison and 148 lashes, after two grossly unfair trials. The charges against her stem solely from her peaceful human rights work, including her defence of women protesting... -
Forty years of state lies: RSF unveils leaked… RSF, February 7, 2019 No fewer than 860 journalists and citizen-journalists were prosecuted, arrested, imprisoned and in some cases executed in Iran between 1979 and 2009, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) revealed today on the basis of information in a leaked Iranian justice department digital file. As the Islamic Republic of Iran was marking the 40th... -
Iran: Labour rights activists at imminent risk of… Amnesty International, 22 January 2019 Two labour rights activists who were rearrested after speaking out about beatings and other abuse they suffered in detention last year are at grave risk of further torture, Amnesty International has warned. Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh Gholian were violently arrested in Ahvaz, Khuzestan province, on 20 January in apparent reprisal for... -
Individuals responsible for showing the ridiculous video of… The Centre for the Defenders of Human Rights has reviewed the situation of human rights in Iran during the month of Dey 1397 [December 2018 – January 2019]: Individuals responsible for showing the ridiculous video of confessions of detainees can be prosecuted In continuation of its monthly reports, the Centre for the Defenders... -
Prisoners Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Narges Mohammadi need appropriate… Experts say two women arbitrarily detained, must be released The two inmates started a hunger strike after appropriate medical treatment was denied Numerous reports of prisoners refused appropriate medical care in Iran GENEVA (16 January 2019) – UN human rights experts* have today called on Iran to urgently provide Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Narges Mohammadi access...
