An Urgent Call to End Stoning Now
On March 8th at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, a group of women’s rights activists will be hosting a panel discussion on stoning, violence against women, and related issues. The article below is their statement. Click here to learn more about the event, the individual presenters, or how to [...]
Nasrin Sotoudeh Ends Hunger Strike After 49 Days
Iranian human rights attorney, Nasrin Sotoudeh, has ended her hunger strike at Evin Prison after 49 days. Sotoudeh, who is serving a six year sentence for “spreading propaganda against the government and acting against national security,” was protesting her 12-year-old daughter Mehrave being banned from leaving the country. The Iranian judiciary agreed to drop the travel [...]
US State Dept: Sakharov Prize Winner Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Hunger Strike
Washington DC (30 November 2012) – We are deeply troubled by reports of the rapidly declining health of jailed Iranian human rights defender and 2012 Sakharov Prize winner Nasrin Sotoudeh. Iranian officials have denied Sotoudeh, a leading women’s rights champion, medical care during her more than six-week hunger strike and have kept her in solitary [...]
News Release: UN Experts Call for Independent and Impartial Investigation Into Death in Custody of Blogger
GENEVA (15 November 2012) – A group of United Nations experts today urged the Government of Iran to undertake a thorough, independent and impartial investigation of the death in custody of Iranian blogger Sattar Beheshti, particularly the allegations of torture, and to make the result of such an investigation public. While the UN Special Rapporteurs on the situation of [...]
Plea by Iranian Filmmaker for Release of Imprisoned Brother
Behrouz Ghobadi, the brother of exiled Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, was arrested in Iran just over two weeks ago. He is accused of acting against national security. Bahman and his family are calling on Iranian officials to release Behrouz immediately. Below is the full statement issued by Bahman Ghobadi. (19 Nov 2012) My younger brother, [...]
What the President Should Now Do About Iran
By Roya Boroumand (07 Nov 2012) The American presidential campaign is over and Americans have elected a president who will have to face many challenges inside and outside the U.S. How to tackle the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear ambitions was a recurrent theme in the campaign, but the candidates did not offer solutions that [...]
Iranian Diaspora Worries About War, Sanctions and Human Rights
[This article first appeared in Al-Monitor. The original posting can be found here.] By Roxana Saberi (November 14, 2012) - As President Obama prepares to start his second term in office, many diaspora Iranians are hoping that US efforts to resolve the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program won’t lead to disregard of Tehran’s human rights violations and the plight of ordinary [...]
News Release: UN human Rights Experts Urge Immediate Release of Sakharov Prize Winners
GENEVA (1 November 2012) – A group of United Nations independent experts called for the immediate release from prison of Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent human rights lawyer, and Jafar Panahi, an internationally acclaimed film-maker, both of whom were recently awarded the prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament. “I am [...]
US Loosens Sanctions On Medicine Sales to Iran
برای خواندن مقاله به فارسی اینجا کلیک کنید (Washington, D.C. – October 29, 2012) Al-Monitor: While most Americans and the US foreign policy elite were focused on last week’s final presidential debate, a small office within the US Treasury Department, without fanfare, rewrote regulations governing key aspects of the Iranian sanctions. New rules issued Oct. 22 [...]
News Release: UN Special Rapporteurs outraged with recent executions in Iran
GENEVA (23 October 2012) – Three United Nations independent experts on the situation of human rights in Iran, summary executions and torture expressed outrage today at the execution on 23 October of Saeed Sedighi and nine others on drug-related crimes in Iran. “We deeply deplore the recent executions and the continuing reports of individuals detained [...]
