by Sadra | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog
PRESS RELEASE Baha’i International Community 16 January 2011 For Immediate Release Arsonists threaten reprisals if Baha’is befriend Muslims GENEVA, 16 January 2011 — A recent wave of arson attacks on Baha’i-owned businesses in Rafsanjan, Iran,...
by Sadra | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog
Date Published: 17/01/2011 The Law Society has appealed directly to the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to release imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and her husband Reza Khandan, who was also arrested and detained today. In...
by Sadra | Jan 14, 2011 | Blog
Azam Afsharian, mother of Iranian journalist and prisoner of conscience Nazanin Khosravani, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that her daughter’s trial has been postponed until 31 January. Afsharian also said Khosravani’s defense lawyer has been...
by Sadra | Jan 14, 2011 | Blog
Reza Khandan, husband of human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh who was sentenced to 11 years in prison this week, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the 20-year ban on Sotoudeh’s legal activities will commence when her prison term ends....
by Sadra | Jan 14, 2011 | Blog
On 13 January 2001, the Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International condemned the eleven-year sentence of human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh issued by an Iranian court on 9 January 2010. PEN also called upon individuals everywhere to take action by writing...
