by Sadra | May 3, 2011 | Blog
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: lawyer Mohammad Seifzadeh is taken back to prison; Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi speaks out against the treatment of Arab minorities in the Khuzestan province of Iran; informed sources told the Campaign of political prisoners being...
by Sadra | May 3, 2011 | Blog
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Parvaneh Osanloo, bus worker union leader Mansour Osanloo’s wife, described her husband’s deteriorating health in prison and the refusal of prison officials to transfer him to a hospital. “His...
by Sadra | May 3, 2011 | Blog
Reza Khandan, husband of imprisoned Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Sotoudeh is in very poor conditions in prison and is planning to go on another hunger strike. He told the...
by Sadra | May 3, 2011 | Blog
Siamak Pourzand, who committed suicide because of the bans and pressure placed on him by Iranian authorities. Siamak Pourzand, a retired prominent journalist and former prisoner of conscience, has died at age 80 in Tehran, having been unable to see his wife and...
by Sadra | May 2, 2011 | Blog
We as workers, trade union members, human rights advocates and empathetic individuals are increasingly concerned about the human rights abuses that many Iranian workers have been and are being subjected to as we write. We are aware that many have lost their...
