International Liberty Association: Kurdish activist prisoner, Vian Mohammadi has started a hunger strike in the Central Prison of Urmia to protest her illegal detention.A Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Mahabad extended the warrant for the detention of this Kurdish activist for another month on 31 May this year. Following the... Read More
International Liberty Association: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet expressed her concern at the deteriorating situation of human rights and political prisoners held in Iran’s prisons. The following is highlight of her speech from ohchr.org website:Geneva – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle... Read More
lawyer Soheila Hejab International Liberty Association: Human rights lawyer Soheila Hejab was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Wednesday, 18 March 2020, by the 28th Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran presided by Mohammad Moghisseh. Human rights lawyer Soheila Hejab is from Kermanshah. She was arrested at home on 6 June 2019,... Read More
According to Human Rights Watch: “Since 31 August, 2018, Iranian authorities have arrested four more human rights defenders, as well as Reza Khandan, husband of the prominent imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, all in Tehran. The authorities should immediately release these human rights defenders, who appear to have been... Read More