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Human Rights Activist Re-arrested
Nassrin Sotoudeh, lawyer of human rights defendants, was rearrested. Ms. Sotoudeh was arrested at home in Tehran on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, and transferred to the Prosecutor’s court of Evin. There is no information available on the reason for detention of Nassrin Sotoudeh. This is not the first time Nassrin…
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Iran: Young Arab Protestor Victim of Regime
The Iranian regime’s Intelligence Ministry in Ahvaz has murdered a 20-year-old local under torture on Tuesday 5th June 2018, reports indicate, after a 1-year prison sentence. Ahvaz intelligence authorities contacted the family of Hatam Marmazi on Tuesday to have them come and receive his corpse. His family was kept in…
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Iran: Execution Of A Sports Coach In Hamadan
The Iranian regime’s criminal judiciary hanged Bahman Varmazyar, a sports coach, in the central prison of Hamadan on Wednesday morning April 18. There was no private plaintiff in his dossier who was accused of armed robbery of a jewellery store. Following the efforts of Bahman’s family to save their son…
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Iran: Atena Daemi denied treatment at hospital
Evin Prison’s infirmary refused to send Atena Daemi on the night of May 15, 2017, for treatment to hospital despite the fact that she is vomiting blood due to hunger strike.Atena has lost 14 kilograms since she started her hunger strike on April 8, 2017.Earlier, 18 women detained in the…
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Recent suicides highlight ongoing Iranian human rights abuses
THE HILL – In January, a young woman in Iran committed suicide. Now, sadly, suicides have become increasingly common among Iranian women due to a variety of social ills, including state-mandated misogyny. But, in Mahdis’s case, it happened one day after she was released from prison. She was sexually abused…
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Demonstration in London Seeks Justice for Victims of 1988 Massacre in Iran
On Saturday, 19 November, the Association of Women and Youth Against Fundamentalism including other Iranian organisations, the human rights activists will highlight and condemn the alarming rate of executions in Iran at a rally in Trafalgar Square. The participants will also urge the British government to support the International Campaign for Justice…
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Iran: Shameful 16-year-sentence for Narges Mohammadi a devastating blow to human rights
Amnesty International: The shocking 16-year prison sentence against prominent human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, who has several serious, chronic illnesses, represents an all-out attack on human rights defenders in Iran, and demonstrates how Iran’s abusive criminal justice system is used as a tool of repression, said Amnesty International.
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Women are banned from cycling in public in Iran and made to sign pledge
A group of female cyclists have been arrested in Iran for the crime of riding a bike in a public place and made to sign a pledge promising they will not cycle in public again.The women, who were planning on cycling in an event in the north-western city of Marivan,…
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Amnesty International calls for prompt, independent investigation into Camp Liberty rocket attack
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT 6 July 2016 Index: MDE 14/4408/2016 Camp Liberty residents must be protected from attacks, said Amnesty International as it called for an independent, impartial and prompt investigation into the 4 July rocket attack on the camp, which is home to Iranian exiles.
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Iran: 21 year old Bahaii student arrested