The authorities carried out many arrests against the Ahwazi activists on the 9th anniversary of the April uprising in various regions of the Ahwaz province. These are the names of other Ahwazis…

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 Ali Chebeishat and Sayed Khaled Mousawi

Two Ahwazi Arab prisoners, Ali Chebeishat (47) and Sayed Khaled Mousawi (35) were taken to unknown places by the Iranian Intelligence services. Following months of torture, Chebeishat , Mousavi and Salman Chayan (32), from Shush city, were forced to confess to bomb attacks on a pipeline and a railway track in interviews with Press TV ahead of their sentencing by a revolutionary court in September 2013

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· The Human Rights Council in the Uni…

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UN human rights experts urge Iran to halt the ongoing surge in executions

GENEVA (12 March 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteurs* on the situation of human rights in Iran, on summary executions, on torture, and on violence against women expressed alarm today at the ongoing spike in executions in the country; which recently included the hanging of a former child bride amid questionable circumstances.

Ms. Farzaneh Moradi, who was report…

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Statement of Iranian HR Organizations on the 4th Anniversary of 2 March 2010

2nd March, 2014

Statement of Iranian human rights organizations on the fourth anniversary of 2 March 2010

The increasing oppression of human rights defenders which started in 2009 after post-election protests in Iran reached a peak in the early months of 2010. March 2nd is the fourth anniversary of the biggest systematic and wide oppression of human rights defender…

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Forced Girl Marriages:The Death of One’s Reality

girls (2)In the memory of Farzaneh Moradi

Who was forced to marry at the age of 15

Became a mother at the age of 16

Fell in love at the age of 19

Was detained following the murder of her husband at the age of 20

…and faces execution at the age of 26

Introduction

Girl marriage in Iran is a not a thing of the past. It is not an occasional event in remote villages and towns. It is not a custom a…

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Bagher Gholami

The Iranian authorities have been processing a mass wave of arrests among the religious activists of Sunni minority at Ahwaz region about three weeks ago. The security forces arrested dozens of activists, including the activist Bagher Gholami Al-na’ami son of Ishaq, 34 years old who has been arrested from his workplace at Jawaheri district in Ahwaz city three weeks ago, and was transferred to the Intelligence Service. Al-na’ami arrested several…

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On 7 December 2013, Hadi Rashedi and Hashem Sha’bani Amouri were transferred to an unknown location from Karoun Prison in Ahvaz, Khuzestan province. Amnesty International understands that the family members of both men have been receiving conflicting information on their whereabouts and who is holding them from officials at the Ministry of Intelligence, the Revolutionary Court of Ahvaz and Karoun Prison.

DOCUMENT - IRAN: END HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATI…

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Christian Wenande

April 9, 2013 - 12:53

Amnesty International are elated that Denmark will no longer be indirectly contributing to the execution of drug traffickers

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Iranians in Berlin protest against killings in Iran (Photo: Scanpix / AFP PHOTO / Joerg Carstensen)

The development minister, Christian Friis Bach (Radikale), has decided to cease providing financial support to a United Nations anti-drug programme due to revelations that Iran…

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By Al Arabiya

Reports of torture of three female Syrian activists arrested for protesting raised concerns across the country.

Noran al-Ghamian, 20, her mother Lina Mahayni, 52, and Nagat Murshid, 57, were arrested on May 27 while taking part in a protest to condemn the al-Houla massacre.

Osama Murshid, the third woman's son, was also arrested with them.

There is no information on their whereabouts since and reports of them being tortured in…

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For years it was assumed that economic sanctions and diplomacy would produce a pliable negotiating partner in Iran. But Iran's truculence has effectively undermined the once-popular notion, while a degree of confusion and consternation has gripped the international community. The often-unstated hope is that denial of critical technologies and sabotage can slow the Islamic Republic's nuclear program until, somehow, an alternative strategy, or an…

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