Iran
Iran: Execution of child offender Makwan Moloudazdeh is a mockery of justice - 6 December 2007
Amnesty International condemns the execution, on 4 December 2007, of Makwan Moloudzadeh, an Iranian Kurdish child offender, following a grossly flawed trial for an offTemporary reprieve for Iranian child offender - 18 July 2007
The execution of 18-year-old Sina Paymard, which was planned to take place on 17 July, has been postponed.Good News: Iranian student blogger freed - 16 January 2007
Iranian student activist and blogger Kianoosh Sanjari has been released from prison after over two month's detention.'Off the record' secret CIA detention - 7 June 2007
At least 39 individuals who remain missing are believed to have been subjected to enforced disappearance by the US authorities.Press Freedom Day: Global action needed to protect journalists - 3 May 2007
2006 was a year in which killings of reporters and media staff reached historic levels. All of society pays the price when journalists are killed with impunity and cenIran: Authorities thwart campaign for gender equality - 23 August 2007
Activists campaigning for gender equality in Iran are unable to exercise their rights to freedom of expression and association, as shown by a number of recent arrestDelara Darabi - 25 June 2007
Delara Darabi, aged 20, faces execution after being convicted of the murder of her father's 58-year-old female cousin Mahin in September 2003. She was 17 at the time oSina Paymard - 25 June 2007
Sina Paymard, the young man reprieved at the gallows in 2006 by relatives of the murder victim after he had played the flute, was a 16-year-old drug addict at the timePress freedom: Deliberately targeted for doing their jobs - 3 May 2004
The freedom of the press is an essential element of the protection of human rights.
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