Shiva Nazar Ahari’s Four Year Sentence Is Final, Says Lawyer

While various media have published news of an appeals court’s ruling of four years in prison and 74 lashes for human rights activist Shiva Nazar Ahari, her lawyer, Mohammad Sharif has not yet been served with the ruling.  ”I have not yet been officially served with...

Lawyer Not Yet Served Execution Orders For Jafar Kazemi

Over the past few days, there have been reports of the Iranian Judiciary’s orders for carrying out the prisoner of conscience, Jafar Kazemi’s death sentence. His lawyer Nasim Ghanavi, talked about her reactions to the news with the International Campaign for Human...

Top Iranian Lawyer Unjustly Sentenced to 11 years in Prison

UN Human Rights Council Should Act to Address Crisis (9 January 2011) The International Campaign for Human Rights in  Iran called the 11-year prison sentence of leading human rights lawyer  Nasrin Sotoudeh a “gross miscarriage of justice” and said that it should be...

Sotoudeh’s Husband Calls Verdict “Strange and Unfair”

After two trial sessions in Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court with Judge Pirabbasi presiding, lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh’s sentence was served to one of her lawyers today. Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, spoke with the International...