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Human Rights Activists Have Forgotten About My Dad

July 5, 2010
Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand’s Daughter in Exclusive Interview with Rooz
 
Read more: Human Rights Activists Have Forgotten About My Dad Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand, the founder and president of the Kurdistan Human Rights Defense Organization, has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment for his human rights activities, articles and the founding of his non-governmental organization. He is now serving the fourth year of his prison sentence on a final verdict that cannot be appealed. In this fourth year of Kaboudvand’s incarceration, we have spoken with his daughter, Tonia. Speaking to Rooz, Tonia, who is a university student, shares her dissatisfaction with the indifference of human rights activists and defenders toward her father’s situation. She says, “Human rights activists and defenders have been silent about my father’s situation and have over time forgotten about it.”

Read more: Human Rights Activists Have Forgotten About My Dad

Dissident Cleric Ayatollah Boroujerdi May Face Exile

July 3, 2010
Officials of Special Clerics Court have threatened to exile dissident cleric Ayatollah Boroujerdi to a remote and abandoned location lacking any type of communication means.
RAHANA- The current threat came after two recent letters that Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeini Boroujerdi had written in Evin were published outside this prison. In these letters, he had criticized country’s current situation and called on “separation of religion and state”.
Reports received by RAHANA indicate no information about the probable location to which this imprisoned cleric may be exiled.
Dissident cleric Hossein Kazemaini Boroujerdi was arrested in 2007 and sentenced to 10 years in prison and confiscation of property. He is currently confined in Evin prison

Parvaneh Osanloo: Mansour Osanloo’s Family is Defenseless

25 , June , 2010

Parvaneh Osanloo said ” I call upon all International Human Rights Organizations and anyone who cares for innocent people and their basic human rights to do what ever is in their power to help us out. We are defenseless here.”
 RAHANA- On Wednesday June 23rd, 2010 at around 5:30pm Zoya Samadi, Mansour Osanloo’s (Head of the Syndicate of Workers of  Tehran & Suburbs Bus Company) daughter in law was leaving work to go home.  Samadi was brutally accosted by agents from the Ministry of Intelligence at the Tarasht metro station when she stepped out of the metro momentarily in order to allow other passengers to leave the metro.

Read more: Parvaneh Osanloo: Mansour Osanloo’s Family is Defenseless

Human Rights Violations Monthly Report: June-July 2010

Aug 24, 2010
In the years following the Islamic Revolution in Iran the country went through such tumult that human rights violations gradually became the foremost concern for international organizations. The tortures and executions that took place in the eighties were only the beginning of such violations.  These violations were exacerbated during the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and reached a climax in the aftermath of public protests to the tenth presidential election. During this suppressive period, hundreds of students, women’s right activists, workers, human rights activists, and politicians were arrested and imprisoned. All of these groups were condemned to heavy sentences and many people had to go through long prison terms and flee the country.

Read more: Human Rights Violations Monthly Report: June-July 2010

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by
General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966
entry into force 23 March 1976, in accordance with Article 49
status of ratifications
declarations and reservations

Preamble
The States Parties to the present Covenant, Considering that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Read more: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Preamble

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Read more: Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Special report on kidnapping and torture of Osnaloo’s daughter-in-law (Protest Letter)

Jun 28, 2010
Parvaneh Osanloo: “Because of agents’ assaults my daughter-in-law Suffered Miscarriage.”
According to reports received by “Human Rights and Democracy activists of Iran Roya Samadi, daughter-in-law of Mansour Osanloo, president of the board of directors of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, was kidnapped and savagely tortured by three agents of Intelligence Ministry.

Read more: Special report on kidnapping and torture of Osnaloo’s daughter-in-law (Protest Letter)

The Prisoners’ Rights

 Sep 23, 2010

By Mehrangiz Kar
When we speak of prisoner’s rights, it means that we have left behind the age of dungeons and branding bodies and have caught up with civilization and the culture of human rights. Furthermore, it means that we possess a law and legal document to which we can refer. Even if we regard this document as distinct from the international criteria of human rights, it appears as a symbol and expression of citizenship rights which the Iranian government has endorsed.

Read more: The Prisoners’ Rights

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly
resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966
entry into force 3 January 1976, in accordance with article 27
status of ratifications
declarations and reservations

 Preamble

The States Parties to the present Covenant,

Considering that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Read more: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

What are human rights?

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible.

Read more: What are human rights?

Amnesty International: Iran-Worsening repression of dissent as election approaches

Amnesty International: Iran-Worsening repression of dissent as election approaches / FEB 2009

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