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Joint Submission Made by the Family Members of Arbitrarily Detained Foreign and Dual Nationals
28 March 2019 The Centre for Supporters of Human Rights submitted jointly with the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center a UPR submission to the UN on behalf of the family members of foreign and dual nationals arbitrarily detained in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This UPR submission documents how foreign and dual national detainees have been targeted and arbitrarily […]
Iran: Release eight wildlife conservationists following unfair trial on trumped-up spying charges
Amnesty International, 5 March Wildlife conservationists in Iran who have been accused of espionage after using cameras to track endangered species could face the death penalty or more than a decade in prison, said Amnesty International, ahead of a verdict in their case in the coming days. The eight scientists, who are linked to the […]
Urgent Action: Nasrin Sotoudeh faces 34 years in jail
Urgent Action, Amnesty International March 4 WOMEN’S RIGHTS DEFENDER FACES 34 YEARS IN JAIL Prominent detained Iranian human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, faces up to 34 years in prison and 148 lashes, after two grossly unfair trials. The charges against her stem solely from her peaceful human rights work, including her defence of women protesting […]
Forty years of state lies: RSF unveils leaked Iranian justice file
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 further torture
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 […]
Individuals responsible for showing the ridiculous video of confessions of detainees can be prosecuted
The Centre for the Defenders of Human Rights has reviewed the situation of human rights in Iran during the month of Dey 1397 [December 2018 – January 2019]: Individuals responsible for showing the ridiculous video of confessions of detainees can be prosecuted In continuation of its monthly reports, the Centre for the Defenders […]
Workers of Iran, Unite!
The Centre for the Defenders of Human Rights has reviewed the situation of human rights in Iran during the month of Azar 1397 [Iranian month corresponding to 22 November to 21 December 2018]: Workers of Iran, Unite! In continuation of its monthly reports, the Centre for the Defenders of Human Rights has reviewed the situation […]
Iran must protect women’s rights advocates – UN experts
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 shook a nation
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 […]
