A group of imprisoned lawyers and Dervish rights activists in Evin and Shiraz’s AdelAbad prison to honor Nelson Mandela wrote a letter to him.According to Majzooban Noor, the letter has been signed by the detained lawyers in ward 350 of Evin prison, Messrs. Abdolfattah Soltani, Farshid Yadollahi, Amir Eslami, Mostafa Daneshjou, Omid Behroozi and […]
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A Letter From Imprisoned Lawyers and Dervish Rights Activists to Nelson Mandela: The World Still Needs You! (2)
A group of imprisoned lawyers and Dervish rights activists in Evin and Shiraz’s AdelAbad prison to honor Nelson Mandela wrote a letter to him.According to Majzooban Noor, the letter has been signed by the detained lawyers in ward 350 of Evin prison, Messrs. Abdolfattah Soltani, Farshid Yadollahi, Amir Eslami, Mostafa Daneshjou, Omid Behroozi and […]
Letter by a number of death row prisoners at Rajai Shahr prison to the head of the judiciary
A group of prisoners at Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj wrote a letter to Ayatollah Larjani, head of the Ministry of Justice. The letter, which was provided to CHRR, is below. With respect and regards We decided to write you a letter hundreds of times to tell you of our grievances and the hardships […]
Letter from 47 Political Prisoners to Rouhani and the Iranian People
On Monday, June 17, 2013, forty-seven political prisoners from Evin and Rajaee Shahr prisons presented a letter of congratulation to President-Elect Hassan Rouhani and the people of Iran following the June 14 elections. The signatories of the letter, who at the time of signing were all serving prison terms in connection with the post-election […]
Hazrat Ali’s Letter to Maalik al-Ashtar– Testament of Human Rights and Equality
Ali bin Abi Talib, the fourth Caliph and son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed, wrote a long letter of guidance after appointing Maalik al-Ashtar to be Governor of Egypt. An excerpts of this letter had been posted . The letter was discovery for Fahmida Riaz who, in an email wrote as follows: “…here is this […]
On the Non-Legal Letter Written by Jurisprudents
As Iran’s Guardians Council is processing the qualifications of the presidential candidates, the country’s media has reported that 7,456 jurisprudents have written a letter to it requesting that it disqualify those individuals who “in the past and in the course of the 2009 sedition had deviated from the path of the revolution.” A number […]
Karroubi’s Letter to Mr. Khamenei Denounces Security Forces
Mohammad Hossein Karroubi, the son of political dissident under house arrest since February 2011 Mehdi Karroubi, has written a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei decrying the continued confiscation of personal items security forces took in February 2013. “On February 11, 2013, security forces accompanying a representative from the Prosecutor’s Office, who had […]
Letter from the Paris Bar association in support of Iranian lawyers
As part of a campaign to support Iran’s independent legal profession in calling for the cancellation of the “Bill of Formal Attorneyship”, a bill that in essence transfers total supervisory control over lawyers to a quasi-judicial body, the Paris Bar association has sent a letter to Iranian authorities expressing its concerns over the proposed Bill. […]
Why Have My Rights Been Trampled? An Open Letter from a Lawyer
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 […]
Ebrahim Yazdi’s Letter To Burmese Leader
The secretary general of the Freedom Movement of Iran, Dr. Ebrahim Yazdi has sent a letter to the Burmese leader, Mrs.Aung San Suu Kyi. Full text of this letter is as follow : Her Excellency Aung San Suu KyiGeneral SecretaryNational League for Democracy97B West Shwegondaing Road, Bahan Township,Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) Daw Aung San Suu […]