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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 […]
Too Little, Too Late: Iran Should Permanently Release Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcilffe
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 expert warning against generalised economic war
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 […]
NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES CALL FOR AN IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION OF SAUDI-LED COALITION ATTACKS ON YEMEN
Ottawa—20 August 2018 The Nobel Peace Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative call for an immediate ceasefire to stop armed hostilities in Yemen, and for the creation of an international investigative committee into the August 9 Saudi and Emirates-led coalition air attacks on Yemeni civilians. We are deeply dismayed by the air-strike, which hit a […]
CALL FOR RELEASE OF DR. SHAHIDUL ALAM AND STUDENTS IN BANGLADESH
AUGUST 20, 2018 Two weeks ago in Bangladesh, high school students came out in the streets to register their spontaneous protest about the death of two school-going students caused by speeding buses. They demanded their right to road safety, rule of law and justice. Credible reports in the global print and electronic media reported that […]
Judiciary’s Intensifying Crackdown on Defense Attorneys in Iran Must End
Center for Human Rights in Iran August 14, 2018—An intensifying state crackdown on human rights defenders in Iran, in which the authorities have denied attorneys the ability to represent their clients and jailed them for attempting to do so, violates Iran’s domestic laws and international obligations and must end, the Center for Human Rights in […]
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 peacefully and investigate killing of protester
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 […]
