by Sadra | May 3, 2010 | Blog
International Worker’s Day, traditionally held on May 1st globally, typically involves demonstrations and rallies organized by unions and other labor groups. Labor activists in Iran face their own set of social problems. On April 26th, the Network of Labor Association...
by Sadra | Apr 29, 2010 | Blog
By Joseph Abrams Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for...
by Sadra | Apr 28, 2010 | Blog
Student sources told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that 40 days after the arrest of Dr. Ali Akbar Soroush, a Mazandaran University professor and head of Participation Front’s Mazandaran Branch, he remains at Sari Ministry of Intelligence’s detention...
by Sadra | Apr 28, 2010 | Blog
Over the past few months, several lawyers who represent political prisoners have expressed concern over the Iranian Judiciary’s lack of impartiality, as well as the widespread influence of Ministry of Intelligence and IRGC’s Intelligence Unit in the Judiciary’s...
by Sadra | Apr 28, 2010 | Blog
Shiva Nazar Ahari, a human rights activist and member of Committee of Human Rights Reporters, has spent more than 120 days in prison. She was arrested for the second time in one year on December 20, 2009. Earlier, she had spent 102 days in prison, 33 of which was in...
