Twenty-two people were sentenced on Monday by an emergency court inEgypt for their involvement in the violent protests of Mahalla, northof Cairo, in April 2008.
Blogger Hossein Derakhshan was arrested at his family home in Tehran on 1 November 2008. Denied access to his family and to legal representation, no one knows where ...
Student activist Dariush Hatemi was released in late November 2008, on bail of 50 million rials (approximately US$50000). He and the other student activists named ...