Category Archive: Articles, News
Iran: Press freedom violations recounted in real time January 2018
Reporters Without Borders 17.10.2018 – Journalists missing in Tehran prison for past 50 days The families of five detainees who worked for the Majzooban Noorwebsite – journalists Reza Entesari, Kasra Nouri and Mohammad Sharifi Moghadam and citizen-journalists Sina Entesari and Amir Nouri – have had no news of them for the past 50 days. They […]
Nobel Peace Prize for anti-rape activists Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege
BBC, 5 October The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has gone to campaigners against rape in warfare, Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege. Ms Murad is an Iraqi Yazidi who was tortured and raped by Islamic State militants and later became the face of a campaign to free the Yazidi people. Dr Mukwege is a Congolese […]
Iraqi human rights activist shot dead in Basra
BBC, 25 September A female human rights activist has been shot dead in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, which has seen violent anti-government protests in recent weeks. Video posted online appears to show an unidentified man opening fire at Suad al-Ali as she gets into a car near a supermarket in the Abbasiya area. […]
Shirin Ebadi: Iran fears ‘one free election’
Kosar Nawzad The first Iranian to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi is a human rights activist, lawyer, and former judge. Listed by Forbes magazine as one of the “100 most powerful women in the world” for 2004, she is currently in exile from her native country. On Sunday, she sat down with […]
Imprisonment, torture and rape: Why Myanmar must be referred to the ICC
By Shirin Ebadi and Tawakkol Karman September 18, 2018 Editor’s Note: “Shirin Ebadi is the winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. Tawakkol Karman won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011. The opinions in this commentary are those of the authors. (CNN) Today, the investigation led by the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar presented […]
Iran missile strike opens door to escalation with Kurdish armed groups
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 rights lawyers
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 card limbo
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 […]
