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Tag : human rights defenders

April 22, 2019

Detained Defense Attorney to Be Tried on Four Charges for Peaceful Activities  

At Least Three Lawyers Currently Imprisoned in Iran Detained defense attorney Amirsalar Davoudi is facing four charges for running a Telegram app channel for lawyers in Iran and giving interviews to foreign news organizations, attorney Vahid Farahani told the Center ...

January 28, 2019

Human Rights Lawyer Mohammad Najafi Facing 19 Years Behind Bars in Iran

Najafi Jailed for Demanding Justice for Detainee Who Died in State Custody Imprisoned human rights attorney Mohammad Najafi was sentenced to two more years in prison in Iran on January 22, 2019—bringing the total number of years he has been condemned ...

August 23, 2018

Intelligence Agents Raid Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Home, Taking Pins as Evidence  

“They’re going to use the pins as criminal evidence, as if they had found bombs” Iranian security agents raided the homes of detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, her sister-in-law, Fatemeh Khandan, ...

August 17, 2015

Imprisoned Human Rights Defender Abdolfattah Soltani Denied Visitation with His Wife

Abdolfattah Soltani, human rights lawyer. Evin Prison authorities have prevented Massoumeh Dehghan from visiting her husband, the imprisoned human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani, a source close to the family told ...

August 10, 2015

Jailed Human Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Needs Urgent Medical Care

Sent Back to Prison despite Doctors’ Insistence She Be Seen by a Specialist Imprisoned rights activist Narges Mohammadi’s medical illnesses have reached a critical stage and require immediate attention, her husband Taghi Rahmani told the International Campaign ...

May 5, 2015

Leading Activist Arrested Ahead of Her Trial for Peaceful Civil Activities

Narges Mohammadi is Transferred to Evin Prison Civil rights activist and Deputy Director of the banned Defenders of Human Rights Center, Narges Mohammadi, was arrested at her home in Tehran in the early hours of  May 5, ...

May 7, 2012

UN STATEMENT: Independent UN Experts Urge Iran to Ensure Protection for Rights Defenders

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 independence of judges and lawyers Gabriela Knaul condemned the Iranian government’s practice of targeting and ...

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 Nasrin Sotoudeh, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. On Sunday, 31 October, ...

September 21, 2010

Ahmadinejad’s Media Blitz Unfolds as Young Activists Receive Harsh Sentences

While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has proclaimed Iran’s respect for human rights and freedoms during his current New York media blitz, several prominent young Iranian students, human rights defenders, and journalists received harsh jail sentences in recent days, the International Campaign for Human Rights in ...

December 29, 2009

Release Emadeddin Baghi and All Arbitrarily Arrested

(29 December 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for the immediate and unconditional release of leading human rights defender Emadeddin Baghi, who was among numerous journalists and reformists detained on 28 December along with over 1,000 others, in the wake ...

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