Massoud Shafiee, the lawyer who represented the three American hikers in Iran, shared an open letter to the Iranian authorities with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. In the letter, he calls out the Iranian authorities for confiscating of his passport, monitoring all his communications, and preventing him from continuing his professional […]
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Punitive Measures Imposed On Detained Human Rights Defender Must Cease
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), strongly condemns the harassment faced by Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh and, more generally, denounces the policy of subjecting jailed human rights defenders to punitive measures in prison.
Iran Must Release Human Rights Defender Mohammad Ali Dadkhah
Iranian human rights defender and lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah must be immediately and unconditionally released, Amnesty International said, after he was called to begin a 9 year prison sentence at Tehran’s Evin prison on Saturday.
Jailed Gonabadi Dervishes And Their Defender Lawyers Did Not Participate In Court Session
The managers and staffs of Majzooban Noor website and Gonabadi dervishes’s lawyers, who have been confined in Evin prison for more than eight months, did not participate in their court trial on 26 Ordibehesht 1391 (15 May 2012).
Jailed Iranian Lawyer and Human Rights Defender: “The Justice System Is More Ruined Than Before”
Fatemeh Golzar, wife of lawyer and a founding member of the Defenders for Human Rights Center Mohammad Seifzadeh, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about her husband’s case.