by Sadra | Dec 21, 2010 | Blog
Reza Khandan, Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, discussed her latest situation during an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “She called me fifteen minutes ago and we talked. The news about her transfer to the prison infirmary was accurate....
by Sadra | Dec 21, 2010 | Blog
Jafar Panahi, an internationally celebrated film director who won the coveted “Golden Lion” prize at the Venice Film Festival for his 2000 film “Dayareh” (Circle), has been sentenced to six years in prison plus a twenty-year ban on all his artistic...
by Sadra | Dec 21, 2010 | Blog
The Democracy Coalition Project (DCP), a group that promotes policies and civil society campaigns that seek to strengthen and establish open democratic societies and respect for human rights around the world, has just published its annual report: “Human Rights Council...
by Sadra | Dec 21, 2010 | Blog
Despite extreme weather conditions, seven Iranian rights activists – including Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi – staged a sit-in outside the United Nations human rights headquarters in Geneva to urge the release of detained human rights defender, Nasrin...
by Sadra | Dec 20, 2010 | Blog
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: Nasrin Sotoudeh is charged with not wearing a hejad for not wearing a headscarf in a 2008 YouTube video and Mohammad Javad Larijani comments on her charges; Christian pastors Youcef Nadarkhani and Behrouz Sadegh-Khanjani are...
