As reported last week by the Kurdish Human Rights Project: Some 200 Kurdish prisoners of conscience in Iran are undertaking a hunger strike to protest against use of the death penalty and the prevalence of torture in detention centres throughout the country. Take Action Now - Sign the petition
Kurdish prisoners have been on hunger strike [...]
As reported earlier this month, an estimated 200 Kurdish prisoners of conscience have initiated a hunger strike in the prisons of Iran. The Committee for the Support of Hunger Strike for Kurdish Political Prisoners released the following three reports on their conditions, translated to English by Iranian activist, Sayeh Hassan:
21st Day of the Hunger [...]
Several Kurdish women and other women’s rights activists in Iran have been arrested throughout the year. Amnesty International has released another public statement renewing it’s demands that the Iranian authorities end their pressure and discrimination against these women’s rights defenders.
From the Kurdish Human Rights Project:
Some 200 Kurdish prisoners of conscience in Iran are undertaking a hunger strike to protest against use of the death penalty and the prevalence of torture in detention centres throughout the country.
The individuals involved are spread across a number of locations including jails in Kermanshah, Saghez, Mahabad and Uromieh, as [...]
Reporters Without Borders Reports:
Reporters Without Borders today called for the release of a Kurdish contributor to national and foreign media, Massud Kurdpoor, who was arrested by intelligence ministry agents at his home in Bukan, Iranian Kurdistan on 7 August 2008.
The teacher had been broadcasting regularly on foreign radio stations Voice of America, Radio France International [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) recommends that engagement with Syria should include human rights:
Western countries looking to increase engagement with Syria should know that Syrian authorities continue to arrest, try, and harass political and human rights activists, Human Rights Watch said today. In May 2008, Syrian authorities detained a political writer, began the trial of two [...]
Human Rights Watch last week called on Iranian authorities to grant three political prisoners access to much-needed proper medical attention.
They are being held in the notorious Evin Prison, a security unit where Human Rights Watch has previously documented abuses. Cleric Ayatollah Kazemi Boroujerdi, journalist and activist Mohammad-Sadiq Kaboudvand, and prominent human rights advocate Emad Baghi [...]
