Human Rights Lawyer Sentenced to Prison Without Access to Counsel
Four Defense Attorneys Imprisoned in Iran in Less Than Two Years Human rights attorney Payam Derafshan was denied access to counsel while being ...
Tag : due process
May 22, 2019
Judge Moghiseh Accused of Cursing at Magazine Editor During Bail Hearing
The former editor-in-chief of the Sedaye Parsi (Persian Voice) political magazine, Masoud Kazemi, was detained on May 22, 2019, after being unable to post bail, the ...
March 14, 2019
UN Experts “Shocked” at Lengthy Prison Sentence for Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh
Iranian defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has been detained in Evin Prison under national security charges since June 13, 2018. ...
December 3, 2018
Crackdown on Defense Lawyers in Iran: Amirsalar Davoudi Not Heard From Since Arrest
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 ...
May 2, 2018
UN Rights Expert Urges Iran to Halt Imminent Execution of Ramin Hossein Panahi
GENEVA (2 May 2018) – A UN human rights expert has urgently called on Iran to halt the death sentence against Iranian ...
February 15, 2018
Environmentalists Detained in Iran Denied Legal Counsel Weeks After Arrests
Some Detainees Allowed Brief Contact With Their Families Environmental activists who were detained at the same time as Kavous Seyed-Emami—who recently died in ...
January 23, 2018
155 Lawyers Call on Iran’s Judiciary to Stop Restricting Detainees’ Access to Counsel
In the wake of a massive influx of detainees following protests in several Iranian cities at the end of 2017, more ...
December 14, 2017
Judge Demands Political Prisoner Mohammad Ali Taheri Pick Lawyer from Judiciary’s List
Judge Salavati Often Assigned to Issue Harsh Sentences in Political Cases The judge who will re-sentence imprisoned spiritual thinker Mohammad Ali Taheri ...
July 10, 2015
Cartoon 118: The Judiciary Aims to Control Lawyers
In an escalating war of words that reflects the long-running conflict between the Judiciary and lawyers over the legal profession’s independence in Iran, the Iranian Bar Association Union’s president, Bahman Keshavarz, reiterated in an interview ...
June 1, 2011
Sotoudeh’s Handcuffed Transfer To Bar Association Uncalled For, Says Husband
The first court session for disbarring prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was held at the Iranian Bar Association on 29 May, though she was not allowed ...
May 27, 2011
Secret Group Executions Continue at Vakilabad; Dozens More Executed In April and May
Though Iranian judicial authorities continue to stay silent about the execution of prisoners with drug-trafficking charges inside Mashad's Vakilabad Prison and refuse to acknowledge the executions or related statistics, informed sources tell the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that more than 70 individuals ...
December 13, 2010
Blindfolds and Handcuffs for Sotoudeh During Visitation
Reza Khandan, human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, told the International Campaign for Human Rights In Iran that Sotoudeh was not brought to the visiting hour last Thursday for unclear reasons. Sotoudeh went on a dry hunger strike for the third time last week to ...
November 11, 2010
Nasrin Sotoudeh Still on Hunger Strike; Allows Herself Water
Feministschool.com, a website in Iran, reported that Iranian authorities continue to refuse jailed human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s demands for due process, forcing Sotoudeh to continue her hunger strike. Sotoudeh has agreed to friends’ requests to drink water after nine days of being on a ...