Following the announcement of death sentences for two men who were charged with violating public security through “robbery,” prominent lawyer and Vice President of the International Federation of Human Rights… ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh, the imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer who just ended her 49-day hunger strike to protest the travel ban on her 12-year-old daughter, has written a letter addressed to… ...
From October 17 to December 4, 2012, human rights lawyer and activist Nasrin Sotoudeh was on hunger strike to protest the foreign travel ban imposed on her 13-year-old daughter, Mehraveh…. ...
As Iran’s execution rate continues to skyrocket and its prisons suffer from intense overcrowding, the independence of its judiciary and legal systems is being called into question. In Evin Prison… ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested on September 4, 2010. A lower court sentenced her to 11 years in prison, 20 years’ ban on her legal practice, and 20 years’ ban on… ...
Imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has been on a hunger strike since October 17, told her husband that her health has deteriorated to the point where she is… ...
(November 27, 2012) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes today’s passage of a resolution by the United Nations Third Committee of the General Assembly calling on the… ...
(November 25, 2012) In an oped published today in the Brazilian newspaper, O Estado de São Paulo, Camila Lissa Asano and Hadi Ghaemi discuss why Brazil should change its upcoming… ...
“When Nasrin launched her hunger strike, our visiting days had been confirmed for Sundays, along with the other women prisoners of conscience. As she is in solitary confinement, though, they… ...
(Paris, London, New York, October 31, 2012) Iran’s judiciary and prison authorities should end mistreatment of the prominent rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi and six human… ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent Iranian lawyer, has dedicated her life to fighting for human rights and defending prisoners of conscience in Iran. For her work, she was recently awarded the… ...
The European Parliament today awarded its prestigious Sakharov Prize for human rights and freedom of thought to imprisoned Iranian lawyer and human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh and prominent filmmaker Jafar… ...
Protesting her prison conditions, Nasrin Sotoudeh embarked on a wet hunger strike beginning on Wednesday, October 17. Iranian Judiciary officials have not yet reacted to Sotoudeh’s demands. Nasrin Sotoudeh is… ...
Human rights lawyer and activist Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, who was under pressure to provide televised confessions against the Defenders of Human Rights Center, commenced his nine-year prison sentence at Evin… ...
In a statement released October 2, 2012, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations expressed its concern over “the arrest and imprisonment of several… ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh, imprisoned lawyer and human rights activist, was nominated this week for the prestigious European Union Sakharov Human Rights Prize. News of her nomination arrived just as she has… ...
Most of the prisoners who were released had already served half of their sentences. Iranian law stipulates that inmates who have served half of their prison term may be released… ...
…Recently, lawyer and prisoner of conscience Nasrin Sotoudeh’s 12-year-old daughter Mehraveh received a ruling banning her from foreign travel. The ruling did not indicate any reasons for the travel ban…. ...
Massoud Shafiee, the lawyer who represented the three Americans who were released after more than a year in an Iranian prison, said in an exclusive interview with the International Campaign… ...
(July 12, 2012) Iranian officials should cease spreading lies and disinformation about the existence of political prisoners as they are simultaneously imprisoning hundreds for exercising their legal rights, the International… ...
A security court in Tehran has ruled to ban foreign travel for human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, and her daughter, Mehraveh Khandan, 13. Reza and Mehraveh Khandan… ...
The stories of sweeping reform across the Middle East has captured the attention of many of us. In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast, Minky Worden, Director of Global Initiatives at… ...
Human rights lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he has been under immense pressure during recent days to make false televised confessions…. ...
In a statement released today, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders Margaret Sekaggya, and Special Rapporteur on the… ...
Prominent human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh was deprived of furlough and telephone contact with her family during the Persian New Year, her husband Reza Khandan told the International Campaign for… ...
