Kobra N has had her sentence of stoning commuted to 100 lashes. On 19 January 2009 her lawyer, Maryam Kiyan Ersi, told the Women’s Field website that the Head ...
Ehsan Fattahian was hanged in connection with his alleged membership of an illegal opposition group. Two other Iranian Kurdish men also feared to be at imminent ...
A man and a woman were released from prison in the central Iranian city of Esfahan on 4 October following their acquittal in a retrial after their convictions for ...
Shiva Kamalipour Azad, one of the two members of the Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS) arrested on 26 April, was released on bail on 25 May 2011. Mohammad ...
Members of two human rights organizations have been detained in Tehran's Evin Prison, some for over two months. Human rights defenders Shiva Nazar Ahari and Ali ...
Delara Darabi has now been scheduled for execution, according to the Iranian newspaper Etemad on 18 April 2009, according to another source on 20 April. She was ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: MDE 13/004/2009. 15 January 2009. Iran: New executions demonstrate need for unequivocal legal ban of stoning. ...
