New York, May 21, 2013–Internet access has slowed, critical websites have been blocked, and several journalists have been summoned back to prison in Iran as the country’s Guardian Council made a key decision today barring two leading candidates from the presidential election. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the broad efforts to deny Iranian citizens information in the run-up to the June vote.
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HRANA News Agency – Amnsety International is worried about the presidential elections of Iran in which the women can not take part as a candidate:
Iran’s ban on female presidential candidates contradicts several articles of the country’s Constitution as well as international law and should be removed, Amnesty International said. Continue reading “Iran’s ban on female presidential candidates contradicts Constitution”
A video about the distressing situation of Iranian journalists which has been prepared by the International Committee to Protect Journalists:
Video: Iran’s journalists in chains
HRANA News Agency – Amnesty International warns about the critical condition of two Dervishes who are on the hunger strike.
Document – Iran: Iranian hunger strikers in critical condition
UA: 88/13 Index: MDE 13/018/2013 Iran Date: 12 April 2013
URGENT ACTION
IRANIAN HUNGER STRIKERS IN CRITICAL CONDITION
Two men imprisoned in Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz, south-west Iran, are in critical condition after a prolonged hunger strike protesting the harsh treatment of dervishes, including lawyers, in Tehran’s Evin Prison. They have been beaten, have lost consciousness several times, and are being kept alive by intravenous drips in prison. Continue reading “Amnsety International: Iranian hunger strikers in critical condition”
HRANA News Agency – Amnesty International has warned about TV confessions and death penalties in Iran.
“Suspects are forced to appear on national or local television to admit to alleged crimes – often before their court proceedings have even started. These “confessions” are then accepted as evidence in court, seriously undermining any prospect of a fair trial” says the Amnety International In a statement on April 11, 2013. Continue reading “Amnesty International: “TV confessions” and the death penalty in Iran”
HRANA News Agency – Five prisoners have been refusing food since start of March in protest at sentences and ill-treatment, says Amnesty
Five members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority sentenced to death following trials described by activists as grossly unfair are on hunger strike in protest at their conviction and ill-treatment in jail.
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HRANA News Agency – Human Rights Council rapporteur finds “widespread systemic and systematic violations of human rights” in Iran.
BERLIN – The Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council voted on Friday to extend by one year the mandate of the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran. Continue reading “UN Human Rights Council Overwhelmingly Votes to Renew Iran Mandate”
HRANA News Agency – Secretary of State John Kerry, in a first-ever statement from his office on the case of imprisoned Iranian-American Saeed Abedini, called Friday for Abedini to be “immediately released” and said he is “disturbed” by reports that he’s suffered physical and psychological abuse at the Iranian prison where he’s being held.
The statement was released by Kerry late Friday afternoon, and it came after the attorneys representing Abedini’s family released a letter the Christian pastor sent to his wife describing how he was beaten and denied medical treatment because he was seen as “unclean” because of his faith.
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HRANA News Agency– Amnesty International -Iran must release all journalists being held solely for carrying out their legitimate work, Amnesty International urged after at least 14 reporters were arrested in the past three days amid police raids on newspaper offices.
The journalists are reportedly accused of cooperating with “anti-revolutionary” Persian-language media organizations outside Iran.
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HRANA News Agency – Human Rights Watch (London) – Iran’s judiciary should quash death sentences against five members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority and immediately cancel their execution, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The sentences were handed down by a revolutionary court and upheld by the country’s Supreme Court on January 9, 2013.
The five men – Mohammad Ali Amouri, Sayed Jaber Alboshoka and his brother Sayed Mokhtar Alboshoka, Hashem Sha’bani Amouri, and Hadi Rashidi (or Rashedi) – are all activists in Iran’s Arab-majority Khuzestan province, in southwest Iran. A branch of the Revolutionary Court sentenced them to death on terrorism-related charges following an unfair trial in July 2012. On January 18, authorities informed families gathered outside Karoun Prison in the south-western city of Ahvaz that the five men had been transferred out of the prison. Their whereabouts are unknown. Continue reading “HRW- Iran: Stop Execution of Ahwazi Arab Political Prisoners”
