Source: RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty (RFE/RL) Akram Neghabi has been searching for her son for more than two decades, despite threats, state pressure, and numerous futile attempts to get information from Iranian officials. …
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Source: The New York Times By Megan Specia The British-Iranian woman has been detained in Tehran for five years on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, accusations that her …
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Source: RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty (RFE/RL) By: Golnaz Esfandiari Despite being repeatedly threatened by Iran’s security apparatus, harassed, sent to prison multiple times, and prevented from seeing her children, the authorities have failed …
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Source: RadioFarda Mariam Claren, the daughter of Iranian-German dual citizen Nahid Taghavi, is speaking out after her mother was detained by Iranian security forces at her home in Tehran on …
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Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) Reported Farangiss Mazloumi, civil rights activist and mother of a political prisoner, Soheil Arabi, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by branch 29 …
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Source: Asharq Al-Awsat Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh reflects on a career that has seen her take on the most sensitive of causes in Iran, including saving juveniles from the death …
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Relatives of Giti Pourfazel, a lawyer and one of the signatories of the statement calling for the resignation of Surpreme Leader Ali Khamenei, reported that she has, once again, been …
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Source: Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) Saba Kord Afshari, a civil activist who is currently imprisoned in Evin Prison, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for “promoting …
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By Jeremy Wiener and Daniel Hornstein Source: Globe and Mail “I realize they had arrested me for my work on human rights[…], still, I will not be silenced,” Nasrin Sotoudeh …
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Saba Kord Afshari, 20, activist from Iran, has been sentenced to 24 years in jail Got 15 years for ‘spreading corruption and prostitution by taking off her hijab’ Afshari took …
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