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March 24, 2011 01:14:40 PM

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution on Thursday, appointing a Special Rapporteur to investigate human rights violations in Iran. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 22 in favor,...

February 10, 2011 09:23:39 AM

Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has been placed under house arrest , according to his website Saham News . On Thursday morning, security forces reportedly took control of...

January 17, 2011 11:20:38 AM

Iran is on an "execution binge," killing one prisoner every eight hours, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said in a statement released on Sunday. Forty-seven prisoners have reportedly been executed in Iran since...

January 10, 2011 12:28:02 PM

Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was sentenced Sunday to 11 years in prison. Sotoudeh was found guilty of "acting against national security" and "making propaganda against the system" for which she will serve five and...

January 3, 2011 01:05:08 PM

Iranian opposition leader Mahdi Karroubi on Monday publicly invited the government to put him on trial for the civil unrest and violence that erupted in the wake of the hotly disputed 2009 re-election...

January 2, 2011 02:55:17 PM

Iranian chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi delivered a speech at Tehran University on Friday indicating that he would prosecute opposition leaders for political unrest that took place after the country's 2009 presidential election . Dolatabadi threatened to prosecute...

November 23, 2010 01:26:18 PM

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday expressed her concern over Iran's crackdown on human rights defenders. Pillay expressed particular concern for Nasrin Sotoudeh, the human rights lawyer who has been conducting hunger...

November 2, 2010 11:43:18 AM

Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court of Iran on Saturday sentenced Iranian human rights lawyer Mohammed Seifzadeh to nine years in prison and a 10-year ban from practicing law. Seifzadeh was charged ...

September 9, 2010 10:01:26 AM

A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has been detained for allegedly spreading propaganda and colluding against national security, her family said Wednesday. Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is most widely known for representing political activists following the controversial 2009 presidential election...

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