January 28th, 2016 
UA: 19/16 Index: MDE 13/3300/2016 Iran Date: 22 January 2016 URGENT ACTION SIX YEARS IN JAIL FOR IRANIAN FILMMAKER Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi has been sentenced to six years in prison and 223 lashes, on charges that […]
Category: Human Rights Reports
FACING EXECUTION AFTER HASTY, UNFAIR TRIAL
Shahram Ahmadi, aged 28, learned in October 2015 that his death sentence had been upheld by the Supreme Court. The judge overseeing the implementation of sentences in Raja’ Shahr Prison in Karaj, where he is held, has apparently told him […]
Joint Letter to the Member States of the UN General Assembly on the Protection of Human Rights in Iran
To: Member States of the UN General Assembly Your Excellency: We, the undersigned human rights and civil society organizations, urge your government to vote in favor of Resolution A/C.3/70/L.45 on the promotion and protection of human rights in the Islamic […]
Iran refuses to free student activist Bahareh Hedayat after six years in jail
Seven years ago this summer, everything was set for the marriage ceremony of a young Iranian couple who had met and fallen in love at university. But on the day before the wedding, plain clothes officers raided the house of […]
