(10 January 2010) Authorities transferred nine of the 33 detained members of the Mourning Mothers to emergency rooms following their detention...
Charlotte Safavi: Raping our Youth in Jail?
One of the most heartbreaking stories that came out of Iran after the disputed 2009 reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was about a boy. He...
UPDATED: Moharram & Ashura in Iran – عاشوراء / محرم
UPDATED 7 Jan: We received an enormous set of pictures from an on-the-ground in Iran. Some may have been circulated around the internet already, but...
IRAN: Five charged over Ashura protests as long list of prominent detainees emerges
Five of the hundreds of people who were arrested during the violent protests that erupted in Iran on the Shiite Muslim mourning day Ashura on Dec....
Widespread Arrests of Women’s Rights Activists, Female Journalists and Relatives
Shirin Ebadi’s Sister taken Hostage to Silence Her (5 January 2010) Numerous women’s rights campaigners, female journalists and relatives are being...
Maziar Bahari: an ordeal of terror and absurdity – Video, Channel 4
Recalling his three-month ordeal in prison in Iran, journalist Maziar Bahari tells Jon Snow how he was threatened with execution, tortured...
Iran: Detained Protesters Threatened with Execution
Pressure Builds on Judiciary to Act “As in 1979” (3 January 2010) In apparently coordinated messages, pro-government clerics have publicly called...
News Round Up: Arrests!
Rober Tait writes in The Guardian about the recent arrests of activists and their family members including Shirin Ebadi's sister: Ebadi – winner of...
Release Emadeddin Baghi and All Arbitrarily Arrested
29th December 2009 Human Rights Defender’s Precarious Health Makes Detention Life-threatening Fear of Torture and Death Penalties for other...
Declaration by Dr. Shirin Ebadi Regarding the Detainment of Sister
I hereby declare that my sister Dr. Noushin Ebadi who is a Medical lecturer at Azad University of Tehran was detained by four officers from the...