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.
A Kurdish boy, believed to be 16 or 17 years old at the time of execution, was executed in Iran on Tuesday.
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.
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.
A prominent trade unionist in Iran has been released from detention after serving a one-year prison sentence.
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.
The Iranian authorities are continuing to harass activists working to defend women’s rights.
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.
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.
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.
