Parisa was released on 5 December after receiving 99 lashes. The Supreme Court had changed her sentence of execution by stoning to flogging after reviewing the ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Public Statement. AI Index: IOR 41/033/2006 (Public). News Service No: 329. 21 December 2006. General Assembly wraps up human rights agenda ...
Saleh Kamrani, an Iranian Azerbaijani lawyer and human rights defender, was released from Evin prison on 18 September 2006. Amnesty International believes that ...
Hajieh Esmailvand was acquitted on 9 December 2006 of the charge of adultery for which she had been sentenced to execution by stoning. She had been released on ...
Iranian Kurdish journalist and human rights defender Sherko Jihani, was allowed to briefly telephone his mother and his wife on 13 December. He apparently sounded ...
Iranian Kurdish journalist and human rights defender, Sherko Jihani, was detained on 27 November 2006 in the town of Mahabad in Kurdistan province, northwestern ...
Most of the followers of Shi'a cleric Ayatollah Sayed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi arrested since 28 September are believed to have been released, some on bail. ...
Nine named men remain at risk of imminent execution. A further three members of Iran's Arab minority, Abdul Husain Haribi, Husain Maramazi and Husain Asakreh, have ...
Human rights Defender Reza Abbasi is a member of ASMEK (Committee for the Defence of Azerbaijani Political Prisoners) and of the Alumni Association of Iran. He ...