Kayvan Kaboli, 7.2.2011 After two years of sorrow and worrisome, families of Josh Fattai and Shane Bauer appealed to Ban Ki-Moon for help. CNN reported the families of hikers detained in Iran with charge of espionage met the U.N. Secretary-General and asked him to intervene just a month away to a trial which was postponed last [...]

By EDITH M. LEDERER The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS — Iran, where a woman convicted of adultery has been sentenced to death by stoning, is likely to become a member of the board of the new U.N. agency to promote equality for women, prompting outrage from the U.S. and human rights groups.  Some rights groups [...]

Middle East & North Africa Iran  Published on 28 October 2010 Developments in the past two weeks confirm that the Iranian government is continuing its relentless crackdown on the media. A journalist was arrested for the second time in a year and courts imposed or upheld jail sentences on two women journalists whose journalist husbands are [...]

London, Oct. 13 –  Ashraf os-Sadat Morteza’i, or “Marzieh”, had a legendry singing career which spanned some six decades. She died at the age of 86. She left Iran and joined the main opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Paris in 1994. She had not returned to Iran since. She was [...]

A Letter to Majid Tavakoli from His Sister October 09, 2010 Follow-ups | Human Rights | Letters | Prisoners & Their Families | Students Letter Published by the Free My Family Campaign | By Azadeh Tavakoli Translation by Laleh Irani | English by Persian2English Azadeh Tavakoli: To Majid Tavakoli Father lit the candles on the [...]

Defenders Work to End Abuses in Cameroon, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and Russia October 4, 2010 ذات صلة :  Voices for Justice We’re inspired by the courage and commitment of these extraordinary activists. They confront discrimination and danger every day in their struggle to pressure their governments to uphold human rights for all. Kenneth Roth, [...]

The websites of three senior Iranian clerics — Ayatollah Yusef Sanei, Ayatollah Assadollah Bayat Zanjani, and Ayatollah Ali Mohammad Dastgheyb — who have been critical of the Iranian establishment and the postelection crackdown have reportedly been blocked in Iran. All three have condemned the filtering of their websites inside the country in separate statements and [...]

    October 04, 2010 An Iranian opposition website says 73 students are currently being held in Iranian jails over their activism, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports. Daneshjoonews.com published the names of the jailed students and said the number is the highest it has been in decades. It said the students are being held throughout the [...]

        Sunday October 3rd, 2010 – According to reports from “Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran”, ward 2, a female ward at Evin has been deprived of drinking water for the past 24 hours, resulting in poor health conditions for female political prisoners, regular prisoners and newborns held at this ward.  [...]

by Freedom and Democracy for Iran on Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 7:50am It was a strange week for the loony strongman from Iran.   President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s six nights in New York featured a secret sit-down with militant minister Louis Farrakhan, heckling in a hotel bar, and a fear of being rubbed out that [...]