by Sadra | Oct 12, 2011 | Blog
Just a few minutes before his release from prison on Sunday, 9 October, student activist Payman Aref received 74 lashes on the charge of insulting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Aref’s is the second case, after young activist Somayeh Tohidloo’s September flogging, of recent...
by Sadra | Oct 12, 2011 | Blog
A source close to the case of actress Marzieh Vafamehr spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about her sentence of one year in prison and 90 lashes. According to the source, charges against Vafamehr are “participation in production of a vulgar...
by Sadra | Oct 12, 2011 | Blog
Only two weeks before the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran is to present his report, two mothers of the post-election 2009 victims told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that their search for the murderers of their children...
by Sadra | Oct 12, 2011 | Blog
Middle East and North Africa | Posted by: Elise Auerbach, October 11, 2011 at 4:00 PM The brutal crackdown against Iran’s peaceful post-2009 presidential election protests has been the fodder for grim reports, statements and actions put out by Amnesty International...
by Sadra | Oct 12, 2011 | Blog
Student Activism is a Human Right United4Iran is partnering with Amnesty to encourage all worldwide to participate in this important campaign. In Iran, students continue to face egregious forms of repression and human rights abuses, as the Iranian authorities attempt...
