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• Defending rights of Iranian prisoners amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

  By going on a hunger strike when the COVID-19 outbreak began, prominent Iranian human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh “tried to pressure the prison’s authorities to release prisoners, or at least grant them temporary release on furlough,” says her husband, Reza Khandan.
  Sotoudeh has been detained in Evin Prison in Tehran since June 2018. A very public and vocal lawyer - defending people accused on political charges, human rights activists fighting for freedom of expression, or women protesting (...)

• An Open Letter

  To: World Health Organization,
  And Human Rights Organizations
  As a group of political, social and human rights activists in Iran, we reach out to you for immediate and urgent help in curbing and containing the deadly coronavirus pandemic ravaging our nation today and is believed to continue for some time yet. Due to the chronic shortage of hospitals, essential medical facilities and resources, a staggering number of Iranians are succumbing to the virus every day. The Islamic Republic in (...)

• Iran intensifies diplomatic blitz against US sanctions as hopes grow for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe release

  Iran’s appeals for help during the coronavirus crisis raising hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough for jailed Westerners
  Diplomatic appeals by Iran for relief from US sanctions to help it fight the coronavirus pandemic may offer an opportunity for the release of dual nationals jailed by the regime, campaigners have suggested.
  Intensive discussions between Iran and Britain, France and Germany over the coronavirus crisis have run in parallel with talks over the release of prisoners such as (...)

• Iran: Continuing judicial harassment of Ms. Narges Mohammadi

  March 20, 2020
  The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Iran.
  New information:
  The Observatory has been informed by the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) about the continuing judicial harassment of Ms. Narges Mohammadi, a journalist and Spokesperson and Vice-President of the (...)

• Jailed Iranian Activist Nasrin Sotoudeh Writes a Plea for Peace on International Women’s Day

  Jailed Iranian Activist Nasrin Sotoudeh Writes a Plea for Peace on International Women’s Day
  By Nasrin Sotoudeh March 6, 2020
  One afternoon, on a late spring day in 2018, a group of officers from the Iranian Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Intelligence came and arrested me while I was home alone. They took me to Evin Prison in a green taxi. In absentia, I had been sentenced to five years in prison for my work as a women’s rights and human rights attorney. A few months later, seven (...)

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