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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 […]
Human rights situation in Iran August-September 2018
The Centre for the Defenders of Human Rights has reviewed the situation of human rights in Iran during the month of Shahrivar 1397 [Aug-Sept 2018] Free Imprisoned Teachers In continuation of its monthly reports, the Centre for the Defenders of Human Rights has reviewed the situation of human rights in Iran during the month […]
Iran: Fears mounting for detained Ahwazi Arabs amid reports of secret executions
Amnesty International 13 November 2018, 13:12 UTC Iranian authorities must immediately disclose the fate and whereabouts of hundreds of members of the Ahwazi Arab ethnic minority being held without access to their families or lawyers, Amnesty International said following reports that some have been executed in secret. In the last few days, Ahwazi Arab activists […]
Human rights situation in Iran July-August 2018
The Centre for the Defenders of Human Rights has reviewed the situation of human rights in Iran during the month of Mordad 1397 (July-August 2018): The best course of action is to make no decision for the time being In continuation of its monthly reports, the Centre for the Defenders of Human Rights has reviewed […]
HRW: For Iran’s Activists, Prison’s Just the Start
Behrouz Javid Tehrani Research Assistant Iranian officials, under international pressure and facing domestic unrest, have reacted by increasing their pressures on activists. It is unclear how many are behind bars, but Human Rights Watch has documented dozens of cases of people who have been sentenced or detained for merely exercising their freedom of expression by […]
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. […]
