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Human Rights

Iran

"Dezfool Prison Inmates Are Treated Like Animals"

A local source in Ahvaz told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Saeed Saki, a political prisoner and an Ahvaz Arab activist who was previously held in Karoon Prison of Ahvaz, was transferred to Dezfool prison two…

8 January 2012
Iran

Iranian Women's Rights Activist Sentenced To Three Years In Jail

The appeals court in Mazandaran Province, has upheld a three year prison sentence for women's rights and Campaign activist, Fereshteh Shirazi. The sentence was issued in preliminary court hearings by Judge Hassanzadeh in the northern city…

2 January 2012
Iran

Iran sentences opposition figure to jai

Iran has sentenced Ebrahim Yazdi, the head of a banned opposition party and a former foreign minister, to eight years in prison for "attempting to act against national security," his lawyer said Wednesday.

29 December 2011
Kurdistan

Per 48 hours a Kurdish citizen is being killed or wounded

On average over the past 3 months, per 48 hours one of the on-foot traders – those who carrying goods on their backs across the border- in the Iranian Kurdistan border has been killed or wounded by the security forces of the regime of…

26 December 2011
Human Rights

Syrian city 'under siege' by army

Residents in the Syrian city of Homs are calling for western intervention, as activists say the area has come under renewed attack from forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.

25 December 2011