Public Statement by Amnesty International :The Iranian authorities have put another nail in the coffin of justice by making a retrogressive amendment in Iran’s new Code of Criminal Procedures which limits the right to access an independent lawyer of one’s choice during primary investigations in certain criminal cases, including those related to national security. […]
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Amnesty International Concerned About ‘Alarming Rise In Death Sentences’
Amnesty International says the number of death sentences issued worldwide increased sharply during 2014 as governments used capital punishment in a “flawed attempt” to fight crime, combat terrorism, and quash internal instability. In a report released on April 1, the London-based rights group said at least 2,466 death sentences were recorded during 2014 in […]
Amnesty International Report 2014/15
Islamic Republic of Iran Head of state: Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei (Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran) Head of government: Hassan Rouhani (President) The authorities restricted freedoms of expression, association and assembly, arresting, detaining and prosecuting in unfair trials minority and women’s rights activists, journalists, human rights defenders and others who voiced […]
Amnesty International: Protection of human rights must go beyond fine words
The Iranian authorities’ decision to withhold their position on all the recommendations made during the country’s second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) until the next session of the UN Human Rights Council in March 2015 should not be another delaying tactics to avoid criticism, said Amnesty International. The authorities should rather use this time to […]
Amnesty International: Ex-political prisoner detained, risks torture
Former prisoner of conscience Arash Sadeghi has been held in Tehran’s Evin Prison since 6 September. He is believed to be in solitary confinement without access to a lawyer and he has yet to be charged. He may be at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. Arash Sadeghi, a former student activist at Allameh […]
Amnesty International: Hunger striking Dervishes critically ill
UA: 242/14 Index: MDE 13/051/2014 Iran Date: 25 September 2014 URGENT ACTION HUNGER-STRIKING DERVISHES CRITICALLY ILL Nine jailed members of Iran’s Gonabadi dervish religious minority began a hunger strike on 31 August, in protest at the authorities’ harassment and persecution of Gonabadi dervishes across the country and are now critically ill. They are prisoners […]
Amnesty International: prisoner of conscience faces death threats
Prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri, who has spent over three years in solitary confinement in Section 2A of Evin Prison in Iran’s capital, Tehran, has been threatened with death by interrogators. He is serving a five-year prison sentence on a charge of “insulting Islamic sanctities”, in relation to his spiritual beliefs and […]
Amnesty International: Jailed for being a journalist
Journalists and media workers in Iran are yet again targeted for repression as Amnesty International has documented a surge over the last few months in the number of media professionals being arrested and imprisoned for carrying out their journalistic activities. The fresh crackdown appears to be aimed at crushing hopes heralded by promises of […]
Rights group objects to young Iranian’s imminent execution
Amnesty International has expressed concern regarding the imminent execution of 22-year-old Rasoul Holoumi, who was convicted of murder five years ago in Iran. Amnesty International maintains that there are serious doubts about the fairness of the legal proceedings that led to his sentence. The sentence was issued by the Khuzestan Criminal Court in October […]
Amnesty International: “Justice is an alien word”: Ill-treatment of political prisoners in Evin Prison
Amnesty International – “What I witnessed revived the memories of the past five years; beatings of people in the streets, arrests, solitary confinement, attacks on the university dormitories, and what took place in Kahrizak Detention Centre” Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, prisoner of conscience, describing his account of the events in an open letter. 1. Introduction […]