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July 20, 2010
According to Iskanews, A.Sh had been arrested for [...]
Source: Human Rights House of Iran (RAHANA)
July 21, 2010
Reza Rafiei Foroushani has stated that he has published this letter of “Grievance” in order to “recall right from wrong” and to investigate his “trampled rights”.
In this letter which is published by RAHANA for the first time, this journalist has complained of the [...]
Source: Human Rights House of Iran (RAHANA)
July 19, 2010
Finally after follow-up attempts by the family and lawyer of activist Mahboubeh Karami, she was summoned by the medical forensic office to be examined. According to we-change portal, the letter of forensic office addressed to Evin clinic indicated the she suffers from depression. [...]
News of the imminent stoning of one Iranian woman for alleged adultrery galvanized a global movement to saver her. But sadly, her case was not an anomaly.
By Katie Paul
Source: Newsweek
July 20, 2010
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has been imprisoned in Tabriz Prison in northwestern Iran since 2005, having suffered 99 lashes and been condemned to [...]
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
July 18, 2010
More than 70 award winning Iranian university graduates have called for the release of one of their friends and colleagues, photographer Hamed Saber, who was jailed approximately one month ago apparently over pictures he took at last year’s street demonstrations protesting the reelection of [...]
Source: Radio Zamaneh
July 19, 2010
The detained head of Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand, has probably suffered a stroke in prison, Iranian human rights groups and his family report.
Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand, the founder of Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, was arrested by Islamic Republic security forces on June 2007. [...]
July 15, 2010
According to reports, Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi, a jailed Tehran Bazaar merchant, has been in cellblock 209 in Evin Prison under inhumane conditions and an undetermined state for several months.
This 63 year old political prisoner was arrested after agents of the Ministry of Intelligence raided his office. He [...]
Source: Human Rights House of Iran (RAHANA)
July 14, 2010
The first session of second round of court hearing for Dr. Akbar Karami, writer, religious scholar and human rights activist, was held on Tuesday July 13, 2010 at the Revolutionary Court of Qom, while his wife Shirin Firouzi described the “physical and emotional [...]
Source: Persian2English
July 14, 2010
In the same prison where Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is detained, there are two other women sentenced to death by stoning. One of them is Maryam Ghorbanzadeh. She is 25 years old and is sentenced to stoning for “[engaging] in an extramarital affair.” Maryam is pregnant and expects the [...]
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Source: Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
July 11, 2010
Yesterday was the seventh anniversary of Iranian-Canadian photo-journalist Zahra Kazemi’s death in detention.
Those responsible for her death have enjoyed complete impunity for the past seven years, thanks in part to the silence and passivity of the international bodies that are supposed to protect human [...]
