May 6, 2015 archive

“Why Did I Go to Prison for Four Years, Mr. Zarif?”

Formerly Imprisoned Journalists Challenge Iran Foreign Minister’s Remarks to Charlie Rose

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JOURNALIST AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST NARGES MOHAMMADI ARRESTED

Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the arrest of Narges Mohammadi, a journalist who works closely with Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi and acts as spokesperson of the Centre for Human Rights Defenders, an organisation founded by Ebadi that was arbitrarily banned in Iran in 2006.

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Iran : Continued harassment of trade-unionists ahead of International Labour Day

Paris-Geneva, April 30, 2015 – On the eve of the International Labour Day 2015, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) and the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) deplore the ongoing harassment of trade-unionists in Iran.

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