Iranian soldiers captured by a Sunni extremist group near the Pakistani border in February have been freed. The Al-Qaeda-affiliated Jaish-ul Adl (Army of Justice) announced the release on Twitter on April 4. The Fars news agency quoted an unidentified Iranian security official as saying the captured soldiers were handed over by Jaish-ul Adl to […]
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End arbitrary house arrests of Mousavi, Karroubi, and Rahnavard; free all prisoners of conscience
The Iranian authorities should immediately release from arbitrary house arrest two former presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, his wife Zahra Rahnavard, author and political activist, and cease harassing or detaining without cause the couple’s two daughters and Mehdi Karroubi’s son, said the Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi […]
Letter from prison calls for “free elections”
Jailed reformists have joined with former interior ministry chief Mostafa Tajzadeh to publish another letter from Evin Prison that urges Tajzadeh’s peers to give their firm support in the quest for free elections.
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High-ranking official calls for “free” elections
Ayatollah Rafsanjani, the head of Iran’s Expediency Council, hsd called on the Islamic Republic establishment to “hold competitive, free elections that follow the letter of the law” and he recommended the exploitation of “skilled, effective and compassionate Revolutionary forces of all tastes” to find a way out of national […]
Rafsanjani Calls for Free Elections
The head of Iran’s powerful State Expediency Council and two-time president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has called for “All the phases of the future presidential elections to be held legally, transparently and freely.”
Iran Urged To Free Prisoner of Conscience On Hunger Strike
The Iranian authorities must release a journalist and prisoner of conscience who has been on hunger strike since 26 May in protest at being denied permission to visit his sick son, Amnesty International said.
Hossein Ronaghi Maleki free on medical leave
Iranian blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki was granted leave from Tehran’s Evin Prison after payment of bail on 2 July, approximately three weeks after undergoing an operation he needed on his kidney.
Amnesty Urges Iran To Free Lawyer
Amnesty International has called on Iran to “immediately and unconditionally” release prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani.
Iran: Flogging sentences used to repress free expression
Amnesty International is renewing its call on the Iranian authorities to stop cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments such as flogging after a spate of such sentences in the country. The organization said it feared such punishment is being meted out to deter others from criticising the authorities, particularly in the run-up to parliamentary elections scheduled […]