Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Paris, 29 June 2007 - The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LDDHI) express their deep concern at the arbitrary detention and sentencing of Ayatollah Mohammad Hossein Kazemeini Boroujerdi and a group of his followers in the (…)
, by Stop Stoning Forever Campaign
Press Release No. 86-3-c 20 June 2007 The stoning of Mokarrameh Ebrahimi and the father of her 11 year old illegitimate child was stayed by the written order of the Head of Judiciary in Tehran addressed to the head of the judiciary branch in Takistan. The stoning had been scheduled for (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
At this moment in time, after twenty seven years of arduous experience, the movement for women’s rights in Iran has entered the arena of a momentous challenge by referring to international conventions in order to put forward the idea of “equality,” and to declare the need for “the abolition of (…)
, by OMCT
THE OBSERVATORY FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS (FIDH-OMCT)
PRESS RELEASE
IRAN
Geneva - Paris, May 21, 2007*. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for (…)
, by NAINAR Vahida
I was in The Hague and it was three days prior to my departure to Tehran on March 4 that thirty-three Iranian women’s rights activist were arrested when they gathered to protest against the method of trial of five of their fellow activists. The event took away the purpose of my visit. Almost all (…)
, by Middle East Times
TEHRAN — Two prominent Iranian women’s rights activists detained for demonstrating outside a Tehran court were released Monday on bail of more than $200,000, their lawyers said.
“Shadi Sadr and Mahboubeh Abbas Gholizadeh were released today on bail,” Farideh Gheyrat said of the two, who were (…)
, by Campaign to Free Women Rights Defenders in Iran
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 19, 2007 This year, the arrival of Nourouz (the Iranian New Year on March 21) is marked with the release of the last two detained women defenders, Shadi Sadr and Mahboobeh Abasgholizadeh; they were released on March 19. Sadr and Abasgholizadeh were among the (…)
, by Iranian Queer Organization (IRQO)
Despite the mass arrests of prominent members, women organizations inside Iran have decided to go ahead with a previously planned event of peaceful gathering in front of the Parliament (Majlis). Anti-riot squad police have a visible presence and violence has been used to disperse the crowd into (…)
, by Campaign to Free Women Rights Defenders in Iran
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 8, 2007
This year, the International Women’s Day is marked by the attack, arrest and detention of women’s rights defenders in front of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. On Sunday March 4 th, thirty three women were arrested following a peaceful demonstration. As (…)
IRN 002 / 0307 / OBS 023***
Arbitrary detentions / Obstacles to freedom of assembly
Iran
March 5, 2007
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (…)
, by Iran-Emrooz, WLUML
The women activists in two major campaigns, Stop Stoning Forever, and One Million Signatures to Change the Discriminatory Law have been arrested along with many others on Sunday morning. Please see below. [From WLUML, March 4, 2007]
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Iran-Emrooz,Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Campaign to Free Women’s Rights Defenders in Iran
March 4, 2007 - Thirty three women’s rights defenders were arrested today in Tehran during a peaceful gathering in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran. The gathering was to protest the recent state pressures on women’s rights (…)
, by DEJEVSKY Marie
Why has this question arisen now?
President Bush and other US officials have upped the anti-Iranian rhetoric alarmingly recently. The new verbal onslaught began with Mr Bush’s address to the nation on 10 January this year, when he rejected the Iraq Study Group plan for Iraq, and specifically (…)
, by EHSANI Kaveh
The August 31 UN Security Council deadline for Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program passed with the Islamic Republic, not unexpectedly, refusing to acquiesce. In the summer of 2005, the newly inaugurated President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reversed his predecessor Mohammad Khatami’s (…)
, by SEPEHR Houshang
Five days before the UN Security Council’s deadline for the cessation of Iran’s nuclear activities ran out, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a factory for the production of heavy water in the centre of Iran with great pomp. This was a new thumbing of the nose by Teheran to the (…)
, by SEPEHR Houshang
After more than a quarter of a century of the Islamic regime the Iranian economy is in deep trouble. Nearly 16 years of economic reform, led by the “moderate” and “reformist” wings of the regime incarnated by the two ex-presidents, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Sayyed Mohammad Khatami, (…)
, by SEPEHR Houshang
The Islamic Republic of Iran is a political construction without parallel. For sure, a certain number of states in the Muslim world, for example Pakistan, the Comoros or Mauritania, also employ the label of “Islamic Republic”, but from the viewpoint of the power structures, the nature of the (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Iranian women’s rights activists are initiating a wide campaign demanding an end to discriminatory laws against women in the Iranian law. The Campaign “One Million Signatures Demanding Changes to Discriminatory Laws” is a follow-up effort to the peaceful protest of the same aim, which took place (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
With the signing of a petition demanding changes to discriminatory laws, the One Million Signatures Campaign Demanding Changes to Discriminatory Laws against women, was launched. The text of the Petition as well as those signing on is provided below:
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One Million (…)
, by PARSI Trita
When Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” in October 2005, the world appeared to be light years away from the end of history. It seemed that ideologues had once more taken the reins of power and rejoined a battle in which there could be no (…)
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