Weekly Rights Podcast 10: Sep 10-Sep 16, 2010

Click here to listen to the podcast: http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2010/09/podcast_1/ In this week’s “Weekly Rights Podcast”: American hiker Sarah Shourd is released from prison after bail was paid through an Iranian account in Oman; Shiva Nazar Ahari is reportedly...

Iran ‘halves jail terms’ for seven Bahai followers

PARIS (AFP) – Iran has cut jail terms imposed on seven leading members of the country’s Bahai religious minority from 20 to 10 years, French members of the faith said on Saturday. The seven, including two women, were arrested in May 2008 and put on trial in...

“Tortured Confessions” Detailed from Inside Evin Prison

Jailed Activist Describes Torture in Letter to Supreme Leader (9 September 2010) Abdollah Momeni, a prominent Iranian activist jailed since June 2009, has described being severely tortured, forced to make false confessions, and subjected to a “show trial” in a letter...