Middle East

Shaheed urges moratorium on death penalty In his second report, Ahmad Shaheed, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, ……Read More

The Harald Edelstam Foundation has decided to award prominent imprisoned student activist Bahareh Hedayat with the first Edelstam Prize for having “dared to play a leading role ……Read More

Opposition couple in high spirits Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi and wife Zahra Rahnavard have been allowed to meet with their daughters. According to Kaleme, ……Read More

Iranian journalist Nazanin Khosravani has referred to Tehran’s Evin prison in order to serve a six-year jail-term. Khosravani was arrested in November 2010 and spent ……Read More

In letter to Judiciary Chief Incarcerated political activist Mostafa Tajzadeh has called on Iran’s judiciary to impose a ban on death-by-stoning penalty “once and for ……Read More