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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 […]
We need to have a civil response to the Iranian state media
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 […]
Open Letter: Distinguished Iranian Women Call on FIFA to Demand Iran End Its Ban on Women in Stadiums
June 22, 2018—In an open letter, prominent women of Iranian origin including Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi, Oscar-nominated actress Shohreh Aghdashloo and legendary singer Googoosh have urged the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to demand that Iran end its discriminatory ban on women in stadiums. “We call on FIFA to stand on its principles, hold […]
Human rights situation in Iran from 21 April to 21 May 2018
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 of Ordibehesht 1397 [Iranian month corresponding to 21 April to 21 May 2018] The Centre for the Defenders of Human Rights, which is presided over by Shirin Ebadi, has […]
Human rights situation in Iran from 20 February to 20 March 2018
The Centre for the Defenders of Human Rights has reviewed the situation of human rights in Iran during the month of Esfand 1396 [20 February to 20 March 2018]: “The only way to save the country is to hear the voices of the protesters and respond to their long-awaited demands” In continuation of its monthly […]
Iranian intellectuals call for a UN sponsored referendum to choose a new system of governance
Fifteen Iranian public intellectuals dismayed by four decades of the Islamic Republic rule, in a statement released on Sunday to coincide with the 39th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, call for a UN-sponsored referendum for Iranians to choose a new political system for their country. The group of intellectuals which include internationally renowned […]
Iran protests are fire under ashes
LONDON, United Kingdom (Kurdistan 24) – After heavy government crackdown, the seemingly spontaneous nation-wide protests in Iran have been silenced, but a Nobel Peace Prize winner says the rage is ever present and will flame up at the next chance. Late in December 2017, Iranians took to the streets to protest the sluggish economy. The […]
FOUR NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES URGE IRAN TO RESPECT THE RIGHTS OF PROTESTERS
Ottawa – January 11, 2018 Nobel Peace Laureates Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman, urge the Islamic Republic of Iran to conduct credible independent investigations into the use of violence, especially lethal violence, and mass arrests in reaction to protests held in 75 cities across the country, beginning on December 28, 2017. […]
