Documents in this collection» Six Bahá’í leaders arrested in Iran; pattern matches deadly sweeps of 1980s
Author: Bahá'í International Community
Type: Press Release
» A Political Prisoner Binds his Lips Together
Author: Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation
Published: February 13, 2008
Type: Newsletter Facing abusive conditions at Rajaee Shahr, outside of Tehran, a number of political prisoners began a hunger strike in January 2008 to starve themselves in protest. On January 15th, 2008 Babak Dadbakhsh, one of these political prisoners, announced his decision to join the hunger strike by literally sewing his lips together. In doing so he committed himself to a course of protest that seriously threatened his life. Worried by his deteriorating health, Human Rights Activists in Iran launched a campaign to draw the public’s attention to the dire situation of Iran’s penitentiary system, and to Dadbakhsh’s alarming health condition. The present newsletter was published when Dadbakhsh had reportedly lost consciousness.
On February 25th, 2008, Human Rights Activists in Iran reported that after 46 days of hunger strike an official delegation had met with Babak Dadbakhsh and accepted his demands. Dadbakhsh was reportedly transferred to the prison’s infirmary to unstitch his lips.
According to Human Rights Activists in Iran, as of April 13th, 2008, Babak Dadbakhsh was still detained in Rajaee Shahr prison waiting to be tried again for “propaganda against the regime”. This newsletter summarizes the detention conditions against which the detainees were protesting.
» Iran: Death by stoning, a grotesque and unacceptable penalty
Author: Amnesty International
Published: January 15, 2008
Type: Press Release
» "You Can Detain Anyone for Anything" : Iran's Broadening Clampdown on Independent Activism
Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: January 8, 2008
Type: Report
» Coerced Confessions in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Author: Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation
Published: August 15, 2007
Type: Newsletter
» URGENT ACTION APPEAL :Ayatollah Sayed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi
Author: Amnesty International USA
Published: August 10, 2007
Type: Newsletter
» Iran: Jailed Students Abused to Obtain Forced Confessions
Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: July 27, 2007
Type: Press Release ُsource: Human Rights Watch
» AN APPEAL TO THE AUTHORITIES BY MOTHERS OF DETAINEES ACCUSED AS "HOOLIGANS"
Author: Mothers of defendants accused of "hooliganism"/ABF translation
Published: July 23, 2007
Type: Letter
» Iran: End Arrests on Immorality Charges
Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: May 17, 2007
Type: Statement
Iran’s arbitrary arrests of thousands of men and women in recent weeks under the banner of “countering immoral behavior” threaten basic rights to privacy, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called for the immediate release of all those detained as part of this campaign, including more than 80 people seized in a raid on a private gathering in the city of Esfahan on May 10, 2007.
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Human Rights Watch
» Iran: Jailed Iranian-American Scholar Faces Coercion
Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: May 12, 2007
Type: Press Release
" President Ahmadinejad is desperately trying to discredit his government’s many critics as American pawns. Haleh Esfandiari is a well-known advocate of dialogue between Iranian and American scholars, and the Iranian authorities are trying to coerce her into making a false confession to incriminate Iranian writers and activists. "
Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch
Source:
Human Rights Watch
» Iran: Women on Trial for Peaceful Demonstration
Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: February 27, 2007
Type: Press Release Source : Human Rights Watch
» EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT'S RESOLUTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN IRAN
Author: ٍEuropean Parliament
Published: November 16, 2006
Type: Resolution
» IRAN STEPS UP SECRET MONITORING OF BAHÁ’ÍS
Author: Bahá'í International Community
Published: November 2, 2006
Type: Communique In an ominous move, Iran’s Ministry of Interior has ordered
officials throughout the country to step up the surveillance of Iranian
Bahá'ís, focusing in particular on their community activities.
» OUT OF TERROR, HOPE
Author: FRANCIS FUKUYAMA
Published: January 20, 2006
Type: Newspaper article The present article is a review of "Omid A Memorial in Defense of Human Rights", By Professor Francis Fukuyama, published in the Wall Street Journal. In his piece the author stresses the importance of truth and memory in strengthening the foundations of democracy.
» A WEB WITNESS TO IRANIAN BRUTALITY
Author: Anne Applebaum
Published: January 20, 2006
Type: Newspaper article This text is an op-ed by Anne Applebaum on "Omid, a Memorial in Defense of Human Rights". Ms. Applebaum is a member of the Washington Post editorial board and a Pulitzer prize winner. She is an expert on the Soviet penitentiary system (Gulag).
» IRAN'S FUTURE? WATCH THE STREETS
Author: PETER ACKERMAN AND RAMIN AHMADI
Published: January 4, 2006
Type: Newspaper article The present article was published by the International Herald Tribune.
Peter Ackerman is founding chairman of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, and chairman of the board of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Ramin Ahmadi is co-founder of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, and an associate clinical professor at the Yale School of Medicin.
» THE VOICE OF AKBAR GANJI
Author: Azar Nafisi
Published: October 1, 2005
Type: Journal article
» HUNGERING FOR REFORM IN IRAN, AKBAR GANJI PUTS HIS LIFE ON THE LINE
Author: Roya Hakakian
Published: August 21, 2005
Type: Newspaper article
» BRUTALITY STILL REIGNS IN IRAN
Author: Ladan Boroumand
Published: June 17, 2005
Type: Newspaper article The present article, published in the Washington Post, reports on the recent abuses of human rights in Iran and stresses the importance of the nomination of a UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in this country.
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