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Following the publication of a letter signed by thousands of social activists in protest to the arrest of Maryam Hosseinkhah, the woman activist belonging to the One Million Signature Campaign for Ending Gender Discrimination, Jelveh Javaheri, another member of the same group was arrested this Friday and sent to the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. She was also a writer on the Change for Equality website.
Journalist and editor of Zanestan website, Maryam Hosseinkhah, was arrested and sent to Evin prison yesterday as she appeared in court following a summons.
With nearly a month having passed since the suspicious death of a young doctor, Zahra Bani Yaghoub, in a Hamedan prison, new efforts are under way to discover the real reason behind the doctor’s death.
Once again, Parvaneh Osanlu is behind the operations room, this time for her son. While the son was unconscious, “I went to court. They asked me to bring a pay stub so that they would release Mr. Osanlu.”
Though the three detained Amir Kabir University students have repeatedly denied publishing material deemed insulting to Islam, and no evidence has been provided in support of the charges, the judiciary sentenced the three students to a total of seven and a half years in prison.
THE OBSERVATORY
for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY
Article 6.5 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) declares: “Sentence of death
shall not be imposed for crimes committed by persons below eighteen years of
age”. As a signatory state, the Iranian government is under international
obligation to comply with both articles. However, Amnesty International has
documented 21 executions of child offenders in Iran since 1990. In many cases,
these minors have been imprisoned until the age of 18 and then executed.
"Torture, arbitrary arrest, prolonged detention in violation of right to counsel, incommunicado detention, any country that wants to equip itself either through legislation or just through its practices with these kind of tools uses the example of the United States," Louise Arbour tells Democracy Now! "If I try to call to account any government, privately or publicly, for their human rights records, the first response is: first go and talk to the Americans about their human rights violations."
The EU is deeply concerned by the news of the imminent execution of Mr Behnam Zare, who was sentenced to death by a judge of the Shiraz Court for a crime committed when he was a minor.
Iran: Amnesty International appalled at the spiralling numbers of executions
Amnesty International is appalled at the reports of the execution of 21 people in Iran this morning, bringing the total number of executions recorded by the organization since the start of 2007 to 210.
THE OBSERVATORY
for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY
Iran: Death sentence / Arbitrary detention / Hunger strike / Ill-treatment
The Observatory has been informed by reliable sources that Mr. Adnan Hassanpour and Mr. Abdoulvahid (also known as Hiwa) Boutimar, two Kurdish journalists and active members of Iranian civil society, have been on a hunger strike for 30 days, to protest against their arbitrary detention, their ill-treatment in prison as well as their sentencing to death.
Death penalty in Iran : stop executions now!
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LDDHI) strongly condemn the execution of 12 Iranian citizens, hanged in Tehran on 22 July 2007. The men were charged with a variety of offences arising out of the Government’s May 2007 "crack down on immoral behaviour".
Death penalty sanctions expression of opinion
Following the sentencing to death of two journalists belonging to the Kurdish minority, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LDDHI) express their deep concern regarding the serious violations of freedom of expression and the conditions of administration of justice in Iran.
Two Kurdish journalists sentenced to death
Reporters Without Borders voiced deep concern today on learning that journalists Adnan Hassanpour and Abdolvahed “Hiva” Botimar were sentenced to death by a revolutionary tribunal in Marivan, in Iran’s Kurdish northwestern region, on 16 July.
High Commissioner deeply concerned over reported stoning in Iran, urges halt to further similar executions
Geneva, 10 July 2007: United Nations High Commissioner Louise Arbour expressed serious concern today over reports that a man was stoned to death on 5 July in Takestan, in the Ghazvin Province of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The man, Jafar Kiani, and his companion, Mokarrameh Ebrahimi, had reportedly been in prison for more than 11 years accused of adultery. The couple was originally scheduled to be killed by stoning on 21 June 2007, but that execution was stayed.
More Student Activists Arrested on Anniversary of Student Uprising
Several young students were participating in a civil and peaceful gathering, carrying placards that read, “We are gathering to celebrate 18 Tir [the anniversary of the 1999 student uprising] and to protest university conditions and the continued detention of eight Polytechnic University students.”
Press release
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LDDHI)
Iran: End Harassment of Dual-Nationals
Human Rights Groups Protest Detentions and Travel Bans
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