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US, EU Should Seek Release of Dual-National Hostages in Tandem with Nuclear Talks

Mitra Haji Najafi Released

29 Members of EU Parliament Urge Iran to Release Detained Journalists and Activists Ahead of 2017 Elections

acid-attacks-on-women-new-grounds-for-harassing-journalists Embarrassed by a public outcry about a spate of acid attacks on women in the central city of Isfahan since the start of October, the Iranian authorities...
human-rights-violations-summary-report Ramezan Ahmad Kamal, a Kurdish political prisoner and a Syrian citizen arrested over three years ago in Iran by Ministry of Intelligence agents and...
un-council-extends-syria-observer-missionThe Security Council has unanimously voted to extend the UN monitoring mission in Syria for a further 30 days, a day after a resolution that sought to...
women-targeted-in-iran-clothing-crackdownAl Arabiya - Female booth attendants at an international trade fair and shops selling men’s ties have become targets in a strict crackdown by Tehran...
bahareh-hedayat-laureate-of-first-edelstam-prizeMarch 07, 2012The Harald Edelstam Foundation today presents the name of the Laureate of the first Edelstam Prize, Mrs. Bahareh Hedayat. She has dared to...
sanctions-against-iran-reviewed-by-european-parliament-with-help-of-iranian-activists The European Parliament held a meeting on March 8 to reflect on the impact of sanctions against Iran driven by human rights concerns.Marietje Schaake, a...
document-iran-prisoner-of-conscience-faces-death-threats-mohammad-ali-taheriUA: 212/14 Index: MDE 13/047/2014 Iran    Date: 26 August 2014URGENT ACTIONprisoner of conscience faces death threats Prisoner of conscience Mohammad...
a-letter-from-a-young-baha’i-resident-of-tabrizI am a Baha’i citizen of Iran; I live in Tabriz and love to serve my country. Like all other citizens, I have done my military service and paid taxes for...
announcement13-further-information-about-the-reasons-of-elia-m-recent-detentionIn the name of freedom Elia M. is released. The great teacher of thinking, Master Elia M. (Peyman Fattahi), the president of Association of Free Thinkers...
narges-mohammadi’s-letter-to-the-tehran-prosecutorNarges Mohamadi, the Deputy Head of the Defenders for Human Rights Center (DHRC) and the Executive Chairwoman of the National Peace Council, recently...
foreign-secretary-statement-on-storming-of-british-embassy-in-iran  29 November 2011 Foreign Secretary William Hague say UK takes 'irresponsible action extremely seriously'.The Foreign Secretary said:“This afternoon our...
the-statement-of-the-committee-of-lawyers-for-human-rights-on-the-recent-attack-on-the-un-compFriday, the tragic news of attack on the UN Compound in Mazar-i-Sharif and killing and beheading the UN staff members shocked the world. During the...
vigilante-violence-the-acid-attacks-against-women-in-iran-and-the-state’s-assault-on-women’s-rightsPromotion of Virtue Legislation Calls for Citizen Enforcement of Women’s “Proper” Hijab   March 6, 2015—The Iranian Parliament should immediately...
world-press-freedom-index-2015-decline-on-all-fronts The Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to a range of criteria that include media...
iranian-government-spying-in-social-networking-sitesThis is a field report about the indifference of internet users to the Islamic republic regime’s spying efforts in cyber space as it tries to identify...
new-report-reveals-iranian-tv’s-continued-human-rights-violations The United States should reinstate sanctions on Iran’s state TV and radio broadcasting agency, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), for the...
special-rapporteur-s-march-2013-report-on-the-situation-of-human-rights-in-the-islamic-republic-of-iran       Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran   Summary The present report is the second to be...
in-the-name-of-the-truthMonths before attacking and hacking on the websites of BBC and its staff by undercover security agents, my Facebook account (Nahal Bagheri) was hacked and...

U.S. Department of state

U.S. Department of state
 
Human Rights Report: Iran*

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
 
 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
 
February 25, 2009
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  On December 18, for the sixth consecutive year, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution on Iran expressing "deep concern at ongoing systematic violations of human rights."
 

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INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN

(April, 1, 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called on the Iranian Judiciary to immediately release five members of the Al-Yasin Society who have been detained without explanation or justification during the past few months.
The detainees are Peyman Fatahi, Nazi Hesami, Morteza Rasoolian, Mitra Haji Najafi, and Aliyar Nik-Farman. They are reportedly held in section 209 of Evin prison, which is under the control of the Intelligence Ministry.

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International Federation for human rights

FIDH
 
International Federation for human rights
 

Human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran  
 
Briefing note - February 2009
 
 The human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran has remained particularly dire throughout 2008 and during the first two months of 2009, confirming the pattern of widespread and systematic violations in the country. This poor record is confirmed in all fields, in particular the situation of human rights defenders and other peaceful activists, the repression against minorities and the use of the death penalty.

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Roxana Saberi: Needed: A loud, persistent cry against Iran's abuses

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roxana-s.jpgBy ROXANA SABERI, Washington Post
 May 13, 2010

Shortly after Iran announced that it had executed five Kurdish political activists on Sunday, I received an e-mail from a human-rights campaigner in Tehran who knew one of them, asking me to spread the word about the hangings. "We are truly helpless," she wrote, "and we feel lost."

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