Swiss Foreign Affair: Against the death penalty for minors in Iran
Media ReleaseSwitzerland is opposed to the execution of minors in Iran. The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) has asked the Iranian authorities to...
Female students summoned to disciplinary committee
NCRI - Over 60 female students at the Free University of Qom have been summoned to the disciplinary committee since March. Many of them...
Pressures mount on political prisoners on brink of student uprising
NCRI - According to obtained reports, the clerical regime has stepped up psychological and physical pressures and restrictions on political prisoners, creating a worrying...
Iran’s Guantanamo Bay: the cover-up won’t work
The Guardian - In response to revelations of abuse and killing at Kahrizak detention centre, Tehran has resorted to punishing scapegoat. Faced with undeniable evidence...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Struggle for human rights, dignity and justice should never end
NCRI - The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace (1984), sent a...
Iran: Fears for prisoners on death row in Iran
30 June 2010AI Index: MDE 13/070/2010Amnesty International has made a new call to the Iranian authorities to immediately halt all executions and commute all...
Death by stoning imminent for Iranian woman, attorney says
CNN - Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, a mother of two, is waiting to die in Iran by a method of execution described by her lawyer...
Worried about defections, IRGC chief calls on forces to safeguard regime
NCRI - The commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Mohammad-Ali Jafari, voiced worry on Tuesday over the increasingly obvious trend toward the...
Relative of imprisoned activist tortured as an act of intimidation
NCRI - The inhumane clerical regime’s intelligence agents in Iran detained a relative of a union activist in Tehran on Wednesday and brutally tortured...
Iranian regime cuts off communication to political prisoners
NCRI - The clerical regime has banned political prisoners incarcerated at the notorious Evin Prison’s Ward 350 from telephone contacts with families. The move...
