Davoudi Eighth Human Rights Attorney to Be Jailed in Iran in Last Six Months Editor's Update: A one-month detention order has been issued against Amirsalar Davoudi, his lawyer, Vahid Moshkani Farahani, told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on December 3, 2018. Farahani added that his client ...
Sotoudeh Now Facing 5-Year Sentence, 4 Additional Charges Imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been slapped with an additional charge for allegedly receiving a cash prize from the European Parliament six years ago—a human rights award she never physically received, a source ...
Imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh started a second hunger strike on November 26, 2018, to protest the Iranian authorities’ refusal to allow ailing fellow political prisoner Farhad Meysami to receive hospital treatment, a source informed the Center for Human Rights ...
Farhad Meysami (left), Nasrin Sotoudeh (middle) and Reza Khandan were all arrested in ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh smiles for a picture with her two children, Nima (left) and Mehraveh (middle). The ...
Mohammad Najafi May Also Be Flogged Despite Health Concerns November 12, 2018—The attorney Mohammad Najafi is being imprisoned unlawfully while his appeal process is underway and should be released immediately, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). His sentence, including ...
Mohammad Najafi is the Seventh Attorney to Be Sent to Prison in Last Six Months, Six Remain Behind Bars October 30, 2018—Iran’s sentencing of attorney Mohammad Najafi to three years in prison and 74 lashes for “disturbing the state” and “publishing falsehoods” after he advocated for a ...
Narges Mohammad hasn't seen her children since she was imprisoned in Iran for her human rights activism more than three years ago. In this video she sings a love song for them during a brief furlough at her now empty home. "During this time, there ...
For the first time in more than three years, Iranian political prisoner Narges Mohammadi was allowed to go on a three-day furlough on September 26, 2018. But according to a letter she wrote that was p...
Sotoudeh’s Sister Threatened With Arrest Imprisoned Iranian attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, has been charged with national security crimes for peacefully supporting his wife and a woman’s right to appear in public without a hijab. ...
Judge Moghiseh Notorious in Iran for Issuing Politically Motivated Sentences Payam Derafshan and Mohammad Moghimi, the lawyers representing detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, have sued Judge Mohammad Moghiseh, the head of Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court ...
Xiyue Wang (right) with his son and wife. A group of 120 academics and human rights activists of Iranian origin have called on Iran to free imprisoned American scholar Xiyue Wang, who was arrested in Tehran by agents of Iran's Intelligence Ministry ...
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