Web pages about "Iran"

Women’s Rights Activists arrested in peaceful solidarity demonstrations in Iran - 16 June 2008

Nine women attempting to take part in a small, peaceful seminar to commemorate a day of solidarity with Iranian women were arrested in Tehran on Thursday.

Kurdish boy executed in Iran - 11 June 2008

A Kurdish boy, believed to be 16 or 17 years old at the time of execution, was executed in Iran on Tuesday.

Iran urged to overturn sentences against women activists - 20 May 2008

Amnesty International has urged the Head of the Judiciary in Iran to ensure that appeals hearings against the recent convictions and sentences of six women’s rights defenders are heard promptly and impartially.

Secrecy surrounds death penalty - 15 April 2008

At least 1,200 people were executed in 2007 and many more were killed by the state, in secret, in countries including China, Mongolia and Viet Nam.

Iranian trade unionist freed - 11 April 2008

A prominent trade unionist in Iran has been released from detention after serving a one-year prison sentence.

Feminist prize winner barred from leaving Iran - 4 March 2008

Iranian feminist and journalist Parvin Ardalan was prevented from leaving Iran on Sunday to travel to Sweden where she was to receive the 2007 Olof Palme Prize in Stockholm.

Women act against repression and intimidation in Iran - 28 February 2008

The Iranian authorities are continuing to harass activists working to defend women’s rights.

Iran: Authorities must support, not suppress women human rights defenders - 28 February 2008

The Iranian authorities should cease their harassment of women human rights defenders and take urgent steps to dismantle the discriminatory legislation they are seeking to change, Amnesty International said in a report published today.

Iran: Death by stoning, a grotesque and unacceptable penalty - 15 January 2008

As nine women and two men in Iran wait to be stoned to death, Amnesty International today called on the Iranian authorities to abolish death by stoning and impose an immediate moratorium on this horrific practice, specifically designed to increase the suffering of the victims.

Campaigning to end stoning in Iran - 15 January 2008

Eleven people in Iran - nine of them women - are waiting to be stoned to death on charges of adultery. Many have been sentenced after grossly unfair trials.