Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi and Rights Groups Demand Moratorium on Executions
(Paris, 14 February 2011) – Other nations and the UN should speak out against a wave of executions in Iran, the Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi and six human rights… ...
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February 11, 2011
Weekly Rights Podcast 22
…in Mashad, five of whom were Afghan nationals; Shirin Ebadi questioned the case review process for Iranian-Dutch national Zahra Bahrami who was executed last week; Kurdish prisoner Zanyar Moradi has… ...
February 4, 2011
Ebadi: Dutch Lawyers Could Have Shed Light on Bahrami’s Case Facts
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate and Head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center questioned the… ...
January 9, 2011
Top Iranian Lawyer Unjustly Sentenced to 11 years in Prison
(9 January 2011) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called the 11-year prison sentence of leading human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh a “gross miscarriage of justice” and said… ...
January 9, 2011
Federation of Social Justice Lawyers Calls for the Release of Iranian Human Rights Defenders
The National Lawyers Guild, on 3 January 2011, issued a letter (LINK: http://www.nlg.org/news/announcements/national-lawyers-guild-urges-the-release-of-human-rights-defenders-in-iran/) calling for the release of human rights defenders facing arrest and prosecution inside Iran, including Nasrin Sotoudeh,… ...
December 31, 2010
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December 20, 2010
Ebadi: “Javad Larijani Does Not Understand Human Rights And Cannot Fill This Position”
Shirin Ebadi and six other women’s rights activists will hold a sit-in in front of the United Nations in Geneva to protest the dangerous situation of Nasrin Sotoudeh, told the… ...
December 17, 2010
Nobel Laureate to Stage Sit-in in Defense of Detained Colleague
(17 December 2010) Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi announced a sit-in in front of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva today to demand the… ...
December 17, 2010
Joint Letter Announcing Protest in Support of Nasrin Sotoudeh
The life of Nasrin Sotoudeh, an Iranian human rights lawyer and women rights activist, is in danger. Nasrin was arrested by Iranian authorities on 4th September 2010 for her activity… ...
November 26, 2010
Release Ailing, 80-year-old Former Foreign Minister
(26 November 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for the immediate release for medical treatment of Ebrahim Yazdi, who has been in detention since 1 October,… ...
November 23, 2010
UN human rights chief concerned by Iranian crackdown on human rights defenders
GENEVA – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday expressed renewed concern for the fate of human rights defenders in Iran, particularly Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh who… ...
November 4, 2010
Life of Jailed Human Rights Lawyer at Great Risk
(4 November 2010) The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, should immediately intervene with Iranian authorities to ensure the physical well being of detained human rights lawyer… ...
November 4, 2010
“The Bloggers Must Be Acquitted and Judges Be Put on Trial”
Mohammad Seifzadeh, lawyer in the “Bloggers Case,” spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran saying despite a ruling being issued in the case, officials have not served… ...
October 31, 2010
Ebadi Calls on UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to Act
…work and defending their clients, Shirin Ebadi said today in a joint statement with the Iranian League for Defense of Human Rights (LDDHI) and the International Campaign for Human Rights… ...
October 25, 2010
Veteran Political Prisoner Demands Trial of Supreme Leader
In a letter written from prison, political prisoner Heshmatollah Tabarzadi asked international courts to review his grievance against Iran’s Supreme Leader, Seyed Ali Khamenei. From Rajaee Shahr Prison, Tabarzadi called… ...
October 25, 2010
Prominent American Civil Rights Lawyer Calls for Release of Imprisoned Iranian Lawyers
…on hunger strike, are being detained wantonly by authorities. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi and prominent international organizations have called for the of release Sotoudeh citing the deeply flawed… ...
October 20, 2010
Detained Journalist Sues Nokia For Aiding Iranian Crackdown
On 10 October 2010, detained Iranian dissident journalist Issa Saharkhiz and his son Mehdi filed suit against Finnish telecommunication company Nokia Siemens for damages they suffered as a result of… ...
October 13, 2010
Seifzadeh in Court: ‘My Charge Was Establishing the Defenders of Human Rights Center’
On 9 October 2010, Mohammad Seifzadeh, a lawyer and one of the founders of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC), was tried at Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court… ...
October 7, 2010
Shirin Ebadi’s International Appeal to Help Imprisoned Colleague
Following publication of news about Nasrin Sotoudeh’s hunger strike in prison and her interrogations under duress, Shirin Ebadi, head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, told the International Campaign… ...
October 7, 2010
Weekly Rights Podcast 13
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi speaks out over the recent decision by Nokia Siemens to halt sales of monitoring centers and restrict its… ...
October 6, 2010
Shirin Ebadi: “Nokia Siemens’ Action a Major Accomplishment for Iranians and for People Of The World”
Following publication of a press release by Nokia Siemens Networks about the company’s halting all its activities in the area of monitoring technology with Iran, Shirin Ebadi who has had… ...
October 6, 2010
“I Think They Have Demands Of Her Which She Does Not Wish To Grant,” Says Sotoudeh’s Husband
…wife might be on a hunger strike. Close relatives of Ms. Sotoudeh told the Campaign that she’s been asked to drop legal representation of the Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi,… ...
October 4, 2010
Former Ebadi Staffer Sentenced to Two Years In Prison
Jinous Sobhani, former secretary of Defenders of Human Rights Center was sentenced to two years in prison. She was convicted of “acting against national security.” A member of the Baha’i… ...
October 2, 2010
Ebadi and Prominent International Organizations Call for Release of Nasrin Sotoudeh
(1 October 2010) Nobel Peace Laureate and Iranian lawyer, Dr Shirin Ebadi, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, the International Commission of Jurists,… ...
October 1, 2010
Sotoudeh Threatened to Drop Case of Colleague
…prison. In the letter he also says that security organizations threatened his wife asking her to withdraw from representing one of her colleagues. Nasrin Sotoudeh represents Shirin Ebadi, head of… ...