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In recent weeks, the security forces have detained a number of human rights lawyers, this is in addition to a number of other lawyers who have already been detained for a while. Payam Dorfeshan and Farrokh Forouzan were detained on Friday 31 of August in the house of Arash Keykhosravi, a lawyer who is already […]
Sep 04, 2018
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Iran missile strike opens door to escalation with… Fazel Hawramy September 14, 2018 The patience of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) with Iranian Kurdish groups operating from northern Iraq was wearing thin. Spiraling violence in western Iran between Iranian Kurdish fighters and security forces had been claiming an increasing number of lives. Meanwhile, Iraqi Kurdish authorities were doing little to reign in the... -
Amnesty: Executions of three Iranian Kurds an outrage 8 September 2018 Amnesty International In response to the news that three Iranian Kurdish men, Zaniar Moradi, Loghman Moradi, and Ramin Hossein Panahi, were executed this morning in Raja’i Shahr prison, Karaj, Philip Luther, Amnesty International’s Research and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said: “We are horrified by the news that the... -
Free Tribune of Lawyers condemns detention of human… In recent weeks, the security forces have detained a number of human rights lawyers, this is in addition to a number of other lawyers who have already been detained for a while. Payam Dorfeshan and Farrokh Forouzan were detained on Friday 31 of August in the house of Arash Keykhosravi, a lawyer who is already... -
Almonitor: Thousands left stateless in Iran amid ID… Fazel Hawramy August 23, 2018 Five-year-old Alireza Pourdad was scared, lying in a hospital bed in the burn ward between two adults who had been burned beyond recognition. Alireza had been injured in a blaze in his parents’ tent in a shantytown outside the Iranian capital in May 2012, and was in critical condition. Alireza’s parents are ethnic Balochs... -
Too Little, Too Late: Iran Should Permanently Release… August 23, 2018 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urges the Iranian Judiciary to turn the three-day furlough it has granted to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe into permanent and unconditional release. “Three days of temporary release after almost three years behind bars under bogus charges is far too little and too late,” said CHRI’s... -
Iran sanctions are unjust and harmful, says UN… GENEVA (22 August 2018) – Sanctions must be just, and must not lead to the suffering of innocent people, says United Nations Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy. “The reimposition of sanctions against Iran after the unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the Iran nuclear deal, which had been unanimously adopted by the Security Council with...
