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10 December 2009 by Amnesty International Urgent Action Network Hengameh Shahidi, a female journalist, has been sentenced to six years, three months and one day’s imprisonment for charges related to her peaceful exercise of her rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly. She remains free on bail, pending an appeal against her conviction and sentence, but [...] By Amnesty International Urgent Action Network Hengameh Shahidi, a female journalist arrested on 30 June, is being held without charge in Evin prison, in Iran’s capital, Tehran, where she is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. She is a prisoner of conscience, held solely for the peaceful exercise of her right to freedom of [...] It’s remarkable. The Iranian tyranny over the Persian people seriously believes that official lies can be sustained. The notion of victory through active lying to the people is rooted in the hope that there are sufficient bands of population that do not now and will not later have easy access to external sources of information. For all intents [...] Commentary by Glenn Caleval Below you will find an Urgent Appeal from Amnesty International seeking assistance in the forcible detention of a family. The proper terms to use in describing this disgraceful episode are “kidnapping” and “hostages.” The nub of the story is that Syrian government kidnapped a family, mother and five children, and trafficked them to [...] Urgent Action Appeal from and by Amnesty International 14 August 2008 Seventeen-year-old barber’s assistant Kamal was sentenced to death for murder on 12 April. His death sentence was approved by the Supreme Court at the beginning of August, and his file has since been sent to the Head of the Judiciary [...] His Excellency Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Your Excellency, I write with concern for the fate of Saman Rasoulpour, whom it is reported Iranian authorities took into custody On August 1, 2008. As I am a Canadian, you will understand the deep level of my concern given the torture and murder of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi. Saman Rasoulpour is [...] URGENT ACTION APPEAL from Amnesty International A peaceful protester is in custody and at risk of torture. 1 August 2008 IRAN Saman Rasoulpour (m), Kurdish human rights activist, aged 23 Kurdish human rights activist Saman Rasoulpour was arrested on 25 July at his home in the city of Mahabad, in West Azerbaijan province, and is in danger of torture. [...] |
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