by Sadra | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog
GENEVA (8 June 2016) – Two United Nations human rights experts today said that the current wave of incitement of hatred of the Baha’i community reflected in speeches made by religious, judiciary and political officials in the Islamic Republic of Iran “has exposed the...
by Sadra | May 31, 2016 | Blog
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: We condemn the outrageous flogging of up to 35 young men and women in Iran last week, after they were caught holding a graduation party together in Qazvin, north of Tehran. According to State media, the...
by Sadra | May 19, 2016 | Blog
Seven years ago, Afshin Sohrabzadeh was sentenced to 25 years in prison, after being convicted of working with Kurdish political parties. Since then, he has been held in a number of prisons in Iran. Throughout these years, this political prisoner has suffered from...
by Sadra | Mar 16, 2016 | Blog
United for Iran has joined 33 other human rights NGOs in a call for the renewal of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Though the organizations have been encouraged by the dialogue generated by the...
by Sadra | Feb 24, 2016 | Blog
Iranian voters will go to the ballot box on Friday to choose their representatives in the country’s parliament and Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that will elect the next Supreme Leader. However, Iran’s ruling elite have limited voters’ choices mostly to...
