by Sadra | Feb 15, 2013 | Blog
(February 15th, 2013) – Majid Tavakoli, a student activist currently imprisoned in Iran was awarded, in absentia, the International Student Peace Prize in Trondheim, Norway today. Tavakoli played a prominent role in the 2009 post-election uprising, speaking out...
by Sadra | Feb 14, 2013 | Blog
(February 14th, 2013) – Two years ago, Iranian authorities placed prominent opposition candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi, and their wives on house arrest, in violation of their most basic human rights. The Government detained these individuals...
by Sadra | Feb 14, 2013 | Blog
(February 14, 2013) – It’s been four years since the disputed Iranian presidential elections that resulted in massive uprisings and a brutal crackdown including extra-judicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrest, and detention; and infringements of rights to...
by Sadra | Jan 23, 2013 | Blog
Five Ahwazi Arabs have been sentenced to death in Iran. Thirty international organizations have signed the following letter, calling in the Islamic Republic of Iran to halt the executions. (January 23, 2013) – The undersigned human rights organizations strongly...
by Sadra | Dec 24, 2012 | Blog
United for Iran began in the summer of 2009 as a cry from the heart. During the events following the disputed presidential elections, the world witnessed the heroic struggle of a people who ventured their all in the hope of gaining the freedoms fundamental to every...
