UN High Commissioner Should Intervene Immediately Family in Anguish over the Health of Hunger Striking Lawyer (4 November 2010) The United Nations...
Journalist’s Lawyer: My Client Was Convicted of “Writing”
Following the sentencing of journalist Jila Baniyaghoub to one year in prison and 30-years’ ban from any journalistic activity, her lawyer, Farideh...
Shirin Ebadi Calls on UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to Act
Lawyer Sentenced to Nine Years for Founding Human Rights Group (31 October 2010) The Iranian Judiciary should end its systematic targeting of human...
“It is Safe for Sarah Shourd to Return to Iran,” says Lawyer
On Tuesday, Tehran’s Prosecutor addressed the upcoming trial of the three American hikers, one of whom was released last month, saying that if Sarah...
Prominent American Civil Rights Lawyer Calls for Release of Imprisoned Iranian Lawyers
A prominent civil rights lawyer in the United States has written a letter addressing human rights abuses carried out by the government against...
More Than 900 Express Concern About Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Life in Prison
More than 900 social activists and clients of Nasrin Sotoudeh, a human rights lawyer imprisoned since 4 September, have expressed their concern for...
AFP: Iran puts top human rights lawyer on trial
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran has put on trial Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, a founding member of Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi's rights group, on charges of spreading...
Sotoudeh’s Husband Says Wife is in Solitary Confinement
Reza Khandan, husband of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his wife is...
“Mortazavi Must Apologize To Me,” Says Persecuted Human Rights Lawyer
As judicial and security pressures on lawyers from Defenders of Human Rights Center continue, lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah has been summoned to the...
Seifzadeh in Court: ‘My Charge Was Establishing the Defenders of Human Rights Center’
On 9 October 2010, Mohammad Seifzadeh, a lawyer and one of the founders of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC), was tried at Branch 15 of...