by Sadra | Feb 26, 2010 | Blog
Hengameh Shahidi, a journalist who was detained for four months this summer and was released on bail on November 1, 2009, has been arrested and transferred to Evin prison again. Shahidi was active in Mehdi Karroubi’s presidential election campaign. Shahidi’s lawyer,...
by Sadra | Feb 26, 2010 | Blog
More than 100 journalists and bloggers have been imprisoned in Iran since the disputed election last June, making it the world’s leading enemy of free expression. At least 65 remain in jail – more than any single country has imprisoned since 1996. Two of those...
by Sadra | Feb 25, 2010 | Blog
In a shocking statement, a cleric named Seyed Hamid Rohani told the radical pro-government newspaper, Vatan-e Emrooz, that dissidents should be executed en mass. Rohani is introduced in the article as a historian and author of a three-volume book about Ayatollah...
by Sadra | Feb 25, 2010 | Blog
A source close to Saeed Nour Mohammadi, a youth campaigner for Mir Hossein Mousavi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that authorities in charge of Nour Mohammadi’s case refuse to let his case move forward. Nour Mohammadi was first arrested on...
by Sadra | Feb 25, 2010 | Blog
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a Mashad political activist said that student activist Amir Sheibani has been arrested for the fourth time. Following the elections protests, Sheibani was arrested several times, once running...
