Iran Human Rights

Iran Human Rights

Amnesty: Lawyer in Iranian stoning case released

AP: Amnesty International says the lawyer defending a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran has been released from a detention center in...
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Iranian lawyer, seeking asylum, surfaces in Turkey

Wall Street Journal: A prominent Iranian human-rights lawyer, Mohamad Mostafaei, has fled to Turkey and applied for asylum after Iranian authorities issued a warrant...
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Death row Prisoner of Conscience challenges Iran’s rulers

Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 05 - The following is the text of a statement released by Ali Saremi, 62, a political prisoner currently on...
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Iran to hang man in public for killing officer

Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 03 - A prisoner by the name of Hamid Moghaddas has been transferred from Ward One of Gohardasht Prison in...
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Prisoner hanged in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 03 - Reza Mohajer, a prisoner in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj (west of Tehran), was hanged at dawn on Monday,...
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Brazil’s plea for asylum for Iranian facing stoning seems to fail

New York Times: Iran’s conservative establishment appears to have reacted coldly to an entreaty by Brazil’s president to allow an Iranian woman convicted of...
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Iran guards attack political prisoners on hunger strike in Evin

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 01 - Anti-riot units and Special Forces barged into Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison after learning that prisoners in Ward 350...
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China, Iran are world’s top executioners

Voice of Russia: China and Iran are holding the world lead in the number of executions. A report published by the Italian group Hands...
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US Preparing for a Long-Term Blockade of Iran’s Ports

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Unemployment and inflation in a war for which the Iranian regime is the primary cause are no longer merely...
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Transfer of a death-row political prisoner to solitary confinement in Urmia, Iran

Punitive transfer of death-row political prisoner Mehrab Abdollahzadeh to solitary confinement in Urmia Prison Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, a political prisoner sentenced...

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