Three Women Lawyers Arrested in Iran

Iranian authorities arrested three women Iranian human rights lawyers on Saturday for so-called security related offenses. Maryam Kianersi, Maryam Karbasi, and Sara Sabaghian were taken into custody as they returned to the nation from Turkey. Sara Sabaghian is known to have represented Hossein Ronaghi in court after his arrest for blog posts which criticized the […]

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Jailed Iranian Human Rights Lawyer on Hunger Strike

Prominent jailed Iranian human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, confirmed in a short telephone conversation with her husband, that she is on the twelfth day of a hunger strike. Sotoudeh, who defended many political activists and campaigners in Iran’s presidential elections last year, has been held in Tehran’s Evin Prison since September 4, 2010, after police […]

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Iranian Chief of Staff Speaks on Women’s Rights

Former Vice President and current chief of staff to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaie has called for instituting more rights for women in Iran. Rahim-Mashaie has been under relentless criticism from the extreme right since Ahmadinejad’s re-election last year, reports Reuters. “Today women play an important role in our society and the current situation of […]

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Iranian Activist and Journalist Released From Prison

Iranian women’s rights activist and journalist Shiva Nazar Ahari was released from the notorious Evin Prison yesterday on approximately $500,000 bail. Ahari had been held since December 2009 on a number of charges, including “waging war against God,” according to Radio Free Europe. Ahari was arrested while traveling to attend the funeral of dissident cleric […]

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Ashtiani Controversy Heats Up Between Iran and EU

The European Union traded barbs with Iran today regarding the case of Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, an Iranian woman who was convicted of adultery and originally sentenced to death by stoning. During European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso’s first State of the Union address, he said that he was “appalled” by the original sentence and that […]

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Brazil Offers Asylum to Imprisoned Iranian Woman

Brazilian ambassador to Iran Antonio Luis Espinola Salgado submitted a formal request from the Brazilian Government to Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Monday offering asylum to Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an imprisoned Iranian woman who faces execution for the crime of adultery, despite solid evidence that she is innocent. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva informally […]

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Iranian Lawyer Seeks Asylum

Iranian human rights lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, has sought asylum in Norway to flee a warrant for his arrest. The lawyer was defending Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, an Iranian woman who was convicted of adultery and originally sentenced to stoning in 2006, before he went missing at the end of July. At the time, it was unclear […]

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Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Missing

Mohammad Mostafaie, the human rights lawyer currently defending Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, an Iranian woman who was convicted of adultery and originally sentenced to stoning, is now missing, spurring rumors that he is either in hiding from the government or imprisoned. Mostafaie was questioned by government officials Saturday at the Evin Prison complex and his office […]

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Iranian Woman’s Execution Halted

The execution of Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, a 43-year-old Iranian woman who was convicted of adultery and originally sentenced to stoning, has been temporarily halted, according to CNN . Malek Ajdar Sharifi, a judiciary official in East Azerbaijan province, said the verdict has been halted on “humanitarian grounds,” although it “still stands and is definite,” reported […]

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Iran Claims Woman Will Not be Stoned

Yesterday, the Iranian government released its first public statement on the Sakineh Mohammedi Ashtiani case, claiming that she will not be executed by stoning. Ashtiani was sentenced to death by stoning after an adultery conviction. The Iranian Embassy in London stated that, “according to information from the relevant judicial authorities in Iran, she will not […]

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Iranian Woman Sentenced to Death By Stoning

Human rights activists are rallying the international community to stop an Iranian woman being stoned to death. In 2006, Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani was convicted of having extramarital relations with two men, who subsequently killed her husband according to Huliq. While she initially received 99 lashes for adultery, during an appeal of her case, the court […]

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Help free Iranian feminists

Iran steps up arrests of women’s rights and human rights activists. This past weekend, on the one year anniversary of the disputed June 2009 elections, Narges Mohammadi, a feminist and vice-president for Nobel Peace Prize Laureate’s human rights organization, was arrested. No information is known about where she is being held or the charges against […]

Iranian Woman Activist, Narges Mohammadi, Arrested On Thursday

Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian journalist and prominent human rights activist, was arrested on June 10th by Intelligence Ministry Officials at her home in Tehran. Mohammadi, a member of the Million Signatures Campaign and a vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, the organization founded by Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, has been interrogated […]

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Ahmadinejad Defends Iranian Seat on UN Commission on the Status of Women

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended Iran’s election to the United Nations (UN) Commission on the Status of Women yesterday as feminists worldwide remain outraged by the country’s appointment to the council. Iran’s election to the council, was formally announced by the UN on April 23. According to The Hindu, Ahmadinejad claims that women and girls […]

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