The Iranian Coordination Council of Teachers’ Trade Associations (CCITTA):
Regarding the Publication of Reports and Letters of Support from International Institutions
CODIR welcomes postponement of execution The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) has today welcomed news from Iran that, following global protests, the execution of Kurdish care worker, Pakhshan Azizi, has been postponed. However, CODIR General Secretary, Gawain Little, […]
TEXTS ADOPTED P10_TA(2025)0004 Systematic repression of human rights in Iran, notably the cases of Pakhshan Azizi and WrishaMoradi, and the taking of EU citizens as hostages European Parliament resolution of 23 January 2025 on the systematic repression of human rights in Iran, notably the cases […]
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) has, along with a number of human rights organisations, opposed the death sentence handed down to Kurdish care worker, Pakhshan Azizi, in Iran.
Independent UN human rights experts on Tuesday expressed grave concern over the Iranian Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the death sentence of Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish woman activist and social worker.
Iran‘s most senior diplomat in Britain has been summoned to the Foreign Office over alleged threats to the lives of journalists in the UK. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said he had called in Iran’s charge d’affaires, Mehdi Hosseini Matin, to make […]
BY KHOSROW GOLSORKHI The international left should affirm Iranian protesters’ feminist and democratic message of “Women, Life, Freedom.” If we don’t, we risk ceding the public discourse to neoconservatives and liberal hawks who will use the protests for their own […]
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University […]
People seek solace in revolutionary songs time and again when they fight oppressive regimes. During their concert in Argentina on October 29, popular English band Coldplay invited the exiled Iranian actor Golshifteh Farahani on stage. Together, they performed the new […]
3 November 2022 Press release For immediate use The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) has expressed concern over the huge numbers of arrests made and charges tabled relating to the ongoing protests that followed the […]
Responding to the unlawful killings of at least eight people since last night by Iran’s security forces as they again opened fire on mourners and protesters in at least four provinces and building on growing international calls for a UN mechanism on Iran, Heba Morayef, Amnesty International’s Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said: “The Iranian authorities’ reckless and unlawful use of firearms against protesters, […]
This video is as an act of protest against the injustices taking place in Iran. It aims to represent the silenced voices of everyday Iranians inside Iran by shedding light on the issues of compulsory veiling, child labour, the death […]
CODIR congratulates Unite the Union on the successful holding of its National Equalities Conferences, which took place from Monday 24 October to Wednesday 26 October in Bournemouth. We were especially delighted to note the adoption of the following emergency motion […]
AN INTERVIEW WITHPARANDEH Iran has exploded in protest following the death of Jîna (Mahsa) Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman detained by “morality police.” We spoke with an Iranian leftist about the mass mobilization and why Western meddling undermines the cause […]
Thousands of people poured into the streets of Mahsa Amini’s hometown Wednesday and marched to her grave. Iranian security forces responded — as they have throughout the course of the nationwide protests inspired by her death — with violence and […]
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