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Narges Mohammadi, the imprisoned vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center was transferred to hospital on Monday morning following a convulsion. After a gallbladder surgery last month, doctors noticed that Mohammadi had a new complication in her digestive system stemming from the existence of a gland in her stomach. Therefore, she was supposed […]
Aug 15, 2018
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Narges Mohammadi admitted to hospital outside prison Narges Mohammadi, the imprisoned vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center was transferred to hospital on Monday morning following a convulsion. After a gallbladder surgery last month, doctors noticed that Mohammadi had a new complication in her digestive system stemming from the existence of a gland in her stomach. Therefore, she was supposed... -
New UN human rights expert on Iran seeks… GENEVA (6 August 2018) – The new UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, has reached out to the Iranian Government with a view to seeking its cooperation with his mandate in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 37/30. “I look forward to constructive engagement... -
HRW: Iran: Activists’ Families Facing Harassment Human Rights Watch, August 9 Authorities Using State TV to Discredit Journalists, Dissenters (Beirut) – Iranian authorities should immediately stop harassing and threatening the families of activists and journalists as a means to silence dissent and criticism, three rights organizations said today. On July 27, Iranian state TV’s “20:30” program featured an interview with Mina Alinejad,... -
Amnesty: Release all individuals arrested solely for demonstrating… Amnesty International 8 August 2018 Following a wave of mass arrests in response to largely peaceful protests across Iran over the past week, Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to release any individual held solely for peacefully taking part in them. The authorities must also conduct a prompt, impartial and independent investigation into... -
We need to have a civil response to… The religious tyranny has sunk lower by moving from broadcasting political-security confessions to the dance and singing confessions. And the judiciary and the governmental so-called national media as expressions of religious tyranny deserve to be boycotted nationally. I detest a religion that, separates a mother from her breastfeeding child for removing her head cover and... -
Instant verbal divorce rips families apart in Iran’s… Leila Alikarami July 2, 2018 Almonitor Rozhan thought that she was in a happy and loving marriage — until her husband divorced her through an archaic Islamic practice that she was scarcely aware of. Rozhan, 30, lived with her husband, Shaho, 41, and their two small children in Mariwan, a border town in the...
