by Sadra | Dec 3, 2012 | Blog
Washington DC (30 November 2012) – We are deeply troubled by reports of the rapidly declining health of jailed Iranian human rights defender and 2012 Sakharov Prize winner Nasrin Sotoudeh. Iranian officials have denied Sotoudeh, a leading women’s rights...
by Sadra | Nov 21, 2012 | Blog
Violations escalate with impunity; Non-Western powers urged to take leadership on human rights crisis (November 21, 2012) — Human rights and press freedom organizations have called on UN member states to support the resolution on the situation of human rights in...
by Sadra | Nov 21, 2012 | Blog
United for Iran joined twenty-five leading human rights and cyber-security organizations and activists in issuing a letter to Melissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo! last week, calling on the internet company to raise security measures to meet international standards and provide...
by Sadra | Nov 21, 2012 | Blog
Behrouz Ghobadi, the brother of exiled Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, was arrested in Iran on November 4 and is being held in secret by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry. He has been denied basic rights under international human rights laws, including contact with his...
by Sadra | Nov 20, 2012 | Blog
GENEVA (15 November 2012) – A group of United Nations experts today urged the Government of Iran to undertake a thorough, independent and impartial investigation of the death in custody of Iranian blogger Sattar Beheshti, particularly the allegations of torture, and...
