by Sadra | Dec 9, 2020 | Blog
This week, Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against Ruhollah Zam, dissident journalist and founder of Amad News, who was arrested in Iraq in October 2019 and brought back to Iran by the IRGC after living for nearly a decade as a refugee in France. This...
by Sadra | Dec 9, 2020 | Blog
Today is International Human Rights Day, a day we commemorate every year as an organization entering our second decade of work to improve human rights conditions for the people of Iran. This year’s theme is “Recover Better: Stand Up for Human Rights,” related to the...
by Sadra | Dec 7, 2020 | Blog
TO: All Permanent Missions to the United Nations in New York Your Excellencies, The undersigned national, regional and international civil society organizations urge your government to support resolution A/C.3/75/L.31/Rev.1 on the promotion and protection of human...
by Sadra | Dec 3, 2020 | Blog
This post originally appeared on our Medium page. December 3, 2020 — Amir Hossein Moradi, an Iranian political prisoner who was originally arrested during Iran’s nationwide protests in November 2019, was brutally beaten and sent to a prison quarantine ward against his...
by Sadra | Nov 30, 2020 | Blog
United for Iran (U4I) is a nonprofit based in the San Francisco Bay Area working to advance civil liberties in Iran by advocating for human rights, supporting civil society, and engaging citizens through technology. Two of our longest-running projects are the Iran...