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Source: The Green Voice of Freedom (GVF)
August 27, 2010
Shiva Nazar Ahari, a 26-year-old Iranian citizen and [...]
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Source: Human Rights House of Iran (RAHANA)
August 30, 2010
Arjang Davoudi was transferred to the prison clinic on a stretcher while he was unconscious on Sunday, August 29th.
RAHANA: According to the Democracy and Human Rights Activists, he was given a form to sign in order to release the authorities from liability in [...]
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
August 30, 2010
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi has written a letter to the UN’s high commissioner for human rights in support of jailed Iranian journalist Isa Saharkhiz, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports.
Saharkhiz was detained in mass arrests following the disputed presidential election in June 2009.
Ebadi [...]
By Robert Tait
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
August 27, 2010
With a frightening reputation and friends in high places, Said Mortazavi for years appeared to have the untouchable status that bred impunity and led his enemies to label him the “torturer of Tehran.”
As a judge and prosecutor, he shut down more than [...]
Source: Radio Zamaneh
August 29, 2010
The International Federation of Human Rights (FDHI) and the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) issued a statement to condemn the stoning of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani and the alleged secret mass execution of prisoners in Mashhad’s Vakilabad Prison.
The two rights organizations urge the Islamic [...]
Source: Human Rights House of Iran (RAHANA)
August 29, 2010
Sara Sabaghiyan, one of Ronaghi’s attorneys, told the RAHANA reporter that “they have said that the Cyber Unit of the Revolutionary Guard has prevented the release of Ronaghi; they informed us orally and we are unaware of what is in his case files.” Sabaghiyan [...]
Source: Human Rights House of Iran (RAHANA)
August 25, 2010
On August 25th, Esmaeil(Hadi) Rahmanian, Farzad Darvish-Sarvestani, Ali Akbar Ebrahimzadeh, Heydar Esparjani, and Keramatollah Mohit referred to the Judiciary along with their attorneys, Farshid Yadollahi Farsi, Amir Eslami (2 members of the Human Rights Committee of the Bar Association), and Davoud Montazeri after [...]
In his blog titled *Neither My Type or that of Yours, writer Shahabaddin Sheikhi reviews the history of executions and massacres of the Kurdish population in Iran post 1979 Islamic Revolution. [*the title of the blog is a direct translation. The name of the blog in Persian is "Na Az Jense Khodam [...]
Further information on UA: 347/09 Index: MDE 13/086/2010 Iran Date: 23 August 2010
URGENT ACTION
JOURNALIST MAY FACE DEATH PENALTY
Journalist and human rights defender Shiva Nazar Ahari appears to have been charged with moharebeh (enmity with God), which can carry the death penalty. Her next hearing is scheduled for 4 September 2010. She is a prisoner of [...]
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
August 26, 2010
Reformist Iranian cleric Hassan Yusefi Eshkevari has described as “shocking” a recent letter by a political prisoner detailing ill-treatment in jail, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports.
Eshkevari was speaking to Radio Farda on August 25 about the open letter by Hamzeh Karami to Chief Prosecutor Gholamhossein [...]
