Amnesty International Urgent Action: 66/10 Index: MDE 13/033/2010 Iran
Date: 16 March 2010
URGENT ACTION
Political Activist at RISK of TORTURE IN IRAN
Heshmatollah Tabarzadi (known as Heshmat), a journalist and leader of a banned political party in Iran, is at high risk of torture in Evin prison in Iran’s capital, Tehran. He was arrested shortly after writing an [...]
Source: Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
March 17, 2010
Tomorrow is the first anniversary of blogger Omidreza Mirsayafi’s tragic death in Tehran’s Evin prison, a death that could have been avoided if the prison staff had not been negligent. “If they have acted promptly and done what was necessary, Mirsayafi could have been saved,” [...]
Source: Deutsche Welle
March 16, 2010
Jaafar Azim Zadeh, the head of the Free Assembly of Iranian Workers, has given an interview to Deutsche Welle on the recent decision of the Iran High Council on Labor to set the minimum wage at 303.48 US Dollars this coming new year. The following is the translation [...]
Source: Deutsche Welle
March 16, 2010
The High Council on Labor recently announced the new minimum wages rate scheduled to start on the Iranian New Year March 20. The rate has been set to 303.48 US dollars per month. The same rate for the previous year stood at 263 US dollars. The rate announced [...]
A student who was arrested for throwing a stone during pro-democracy demonstrations is to be executed, Iran said yesterday.
By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Source: Telegraph
16 March 2010
Mohammad-Amin Valian, a 20-year-old Islamic studies student, was arrested on the basis of a photograph taken at a mass demonstration against the rigged [...]
Source: The Green Voice of Freedom (GVF)
March 16, 2010
The son of a very senior Revolutionary Guards commander has been arrested in Iran.
Reliable sources have told the Green Voice of Freedom that the son of IRGC Commander Esmail Gha’ani has been arrested. The commander had been against the electoral coup and the suppressions [...]
Source: Amnesty International
March 16, 2010
The Persian holiday Nowruz (“new day”) is an ancient holiday celebrated on the first day of spring to welcome in the new year. On this Nowruz we want to remember several courageous prisoners of conscience in Iran with Nowruz greetings. We ask you to send cards with [...]
Source: World Association of Newspapers (WAN)
March 17, 2010
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has condemned the continued imprisonment of Iranian journalist Emad Baghi and the repressive measures employed by the state to silence critical publications.
Mr Baghi, a leading human rights activist, writer and journalist, was arrested without [...]
March 17, 2010
Advar News the media arm of the Alumni Association of the Office for the Consolidation of Unity (Advar’eh Tahkim’eh Vahdat) reports: Abol-Reza Ghanbari who was prosecuted in one of the trials following the Ashour protests (December 26th & 27th) has been found guilty of Harb (combating God) and has been sentenced [...]
Source: Persian2English
March 17, 2010
Committee of Human Rights Reporters – After the interrogator refused to release her son from prison before Norooz [Iranian New Year], Farangis Davoodi, Kaveh Kermanshahi’s mother, has decided to set up a sofre haft-sin [traditional decorative set up for the Iranian New Year] outside the prison so she [...]
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