Lawyer Sentenced to Nine Years for Founding Human Rights Group (31 October 2010) The Iranian Judiciary should end its systematic targeting of human...
AP: Iran vying for board of UN Women
UNITED NATIONS – Iran, where a woman convicted of adultery has been sentenced to death by stoning, is likely to become a member of the board of the...
“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...
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...
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...
Shirin Ebadi’s International Appeal to Help Nasrin Sotoudeh in Prison
Following publication of news about Nasrin Sotoudeh’s hunger strike in prison and her interrogations under duress, Shirin Ebadi, head of the...
Ebadi and Prominent International Organizations Call for Release of Nasrin Sotoudeh
(1 October 2010) Nobel Peace Laureate and Iranian lawyer, Dr Shirin Ebadi, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Campaign for...
Sotoudeh Threatened to Drop Case of Colleague
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has obtained a copy of a letter Reza Khandan, wife of lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, wrote to Tehran’s...
Mourning Mothers Request Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Release to Attend Father’s Funeral
Only a few days after her arrest, Nasrin Sotoudeh’s father passed away in the intensive care unit of a hospital. Summoned for some “explanations” to...
AP: Iran sentences rights activist (Shiva Nazar Ahari) to 6 years in jail
By The Associated Press, Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 8:44 a.m. TEHRAN, Iran — Iran sentenced a prominent rights activist and journalist to six...