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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 […]
Feb 11, 2019
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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... -
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... -
Shadow foreign secretary says treatment of British-Iranian is… The Guardian, Mon 7 Jan Patrick Wintour Iran is digging its own diplomatic grave by punishing the jailed British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after it cut both her food rations and access to medical treatment for a lump on her breast, the shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, has said. The family of the 40-year-old, who has... -
Iran must protect women’s rights advocates – UN… Protesters jailed for criticising compulsory hijab law Farhad Meysami on hunger strike since August, condition critical GENEVA (29 November 2018) – UN human rights experts* have called on Iran to guarantee the rights of human rights defenders and lawyers who have been jailed for publicly supporting protests against the mandatory wearing of the hijab in... -
Iran’s Chain Murders: A wave of killings that… By Sarah Fowler, BBC News 2 December 2018 It was an incident they were told never to talk about and for several years they heeded that warning. A group of 21 Iranian poets, writers and journalists believed they were heading to a literary conference in neighbouring Armenia in August 1996. But what should have been a...
