As Iran fielded questions over its human rights policies at the UN in Geneva last week it was instructive to observe the bravura of Tehran’s representatives dismissing every concern ...
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Iran human rights monitor monthly report – October 2019
The month of October was marked by Iran’s crackdown on freedom of expression. Security forces in the southwestern town of Lordegan made widespread arrests following large protests over the ...
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Iran political prisoner denied medical leave
An Iranian political prisoner was not transferred to a hospital on Sunday, despite needing urgent treatment because he refused to wear a prison outfit
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Iran sentences Satirist Keyomars Marzban to 23 years imprisonment
Satirist Keyomars Marzban has been sentenced to 23.3 years in prison in Iran for working for foreign media outlets, his lawyer Mohammad Hossein Aghasi told the Center for Human ...
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Annual report of prosecuted lawyers in Iran
The following is an overview of the prosecuted human rights lawyers in Iran in 2018. According to Shirin Ebadi, Iran’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights lawyer, lack of judicial ...
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Seven Iranians to face trial in connection with labor protests
After months of unlawful prosecution in connection with workers’ rights protests in southwestern Iran, five journalists and two labor activists are due to go on trial at Branch 15 ...
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