In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast, we examine the Iranian government’s crackdown on independent and documentary filmmakers and actors. We talk to Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian filmmaker and journalist, about the arrests of six independent documentary filmmakers who were charged with collaborating with BBC Persian. Bahari also describes his arrest in after the June 2009 ...
After the 1979 Revolution, Iranian authorities renewed a historic campaign to eradicate members of the Baha;i community. Since then, over 200 Iranian Baha’i ’s have been executed, disappeared, or killed for their beliefs. Thousands more have been imprisoned and have had personal property confiscated or destroyed. And all members of the community are barred from ...
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran presents his findings on human rights abuses at the UN General Assembly; Campaign spokesperson Hadi Ghaemi urges other UN member states to support Shaheed’s mandate; the UN Human Rights Committee reviews Iran’s obligations to the ICCPR, criticizing Iran’s human ...
“I can’t speak definitively about the other prisoners at Evin because I wasn’t allowed to mix with them,” responded Shourd when asked whether she had any interaction with other prisoners while she was in Evin prison adding that, “but I’ve since done my own research and looked into a lot of the cases and I ...
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“During my interrogation, I was under duress and torture. As I point out in the enclosed defense bill, I was informed of my charges in an illegal manner. My arrest and the location where I was detained were both illegal. I was in a solitary cell for 40 days inside Ward 40 of Evin prison, ...
