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Iran

Iran: Death Sentence For Netizen Confirmed

Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that the supreme court has confirmed website designer Saeed Malekpour's death sentence. His family said the court took the decision under pressure from the Revolutionary Guards. A Canadian…

19 January 2012
Kurdistan

Jailed human rights activists taken to hospital

Iranian-Kurdish human rights activist Mohammad Seddigh Kaboodvand, has been transferred to hospital by Iranian prison authorities after spending nearly five years in Tehran's Evin Prison.

12 January 2012
Iran

Iran sentences U.S. citizen to death

Iranian Revolutionary Court 15 sentenced U.S. citizen Amir Mirzai Hekmati accused of spying and attempting to accuse Iran of terrorism to death, Fars news agency reported.

9 January 2012
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