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.
The director, who has been exiled in Germany since May, releases ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig,’ a portrayal of the Women, Life Freedom movement in Iran and how dictatorships are sustained by middle management
Trump and Netanyahu are trying to take credit, but this movement is all about the people. By Vijay Prashad / AlterNet January 3, 2018, 8:50 AM GMT All eyes are on Iran. On December 28, as if from nowhere, protests broke out in […]
Owen Tudor 02 Jan 2018 Over the New Year, a wave of protests has erupted in Iran, as people in towns all over the country took to the streets to air their grievances. Many protests were about basic economics – […]
The government cannot move its forces from one city to another because the protests have spread everywhere. It has no effective means to suppress the people. IRANWIRE 01.03.18 5:39 AM ET The spark that ignited nationwide protests in Iran was lit on […]
Recent protests across Iran have brought the Islamic Republic once more into the international spotlight. JANE GREEN assesses the current situation. THE rising tide of dissatisfaction among the people of Iran has burst its banks for the first time since […]
TWELVE people have already been killed in continuing protests across Iran, with armed groups trying to take over unidentified security depots, state TV reported today. “Some armed protesters tried to take over some police stations and military bases but faced […]
The much publicised trip of UK Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, to Tehran appears not to have secured the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in spite of the high hopes that the UK media attached to the visit. This should not come […]
06.12.2017 More than 1,000 workers added their names to a petition to the public broadcaster, calling on the organization to send an investigative team to report on terrible working conditions and unpaid wages. The petition was organized by IndustriALL Global […]
Recent events in the Middle East have brought the threat of a wider armed conflict in the region closer than ever. Jane Green considers the issues and the current balance of forces. Peace in the Middle East has, for many […]
Geneva, 15 November 2017 H.E. Hassan Rouhani President Islamic Republic of Iran Email: [email protected] ; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Dear Mr. President, I am writing this letter to you as the General Secretary of IndustriALL Global Union , which represents more than fifty million workers in mining, […]
In recent weeks, there have been worrying developments indicating a renewed onslaught on trade union activists in Iran. Reza Shahabi, an imprisoned bus driver and prominent trade union activist, remains imprisoned and without much needed access to medical treatment. Meanwhile, […]
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