According to news reports from Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan a second female activist Ms. Shirin Alan Hovi who is currently in custody in the Evin Prison has been sentenced to death Ms. Alan Hovi has been convicted of being …
Posted in Iran, Political Prisoners, Trials, Women | 1 CommentA court in Diyabakır has sentenced Kurdish politician Leyla Zana to 1 year and 3 months imprisonment for allegedly spreading PKK propaganda in a speech made at a seminar at London’s SOAS University on 24 May 2008.
Posted in Activism, Democratic Society Party, Discrimination, Free speech, General, Kurdistan, Leyla Zana, Political Prisoners, Prisoners of Conscience, Suppression, Trials, Turkey, Women | Comments Off on Bianet: 1 Year 3 Months Imprisonment for Leyla ZanaThe Iran Human Rights Voice, a web-based media outlet that monitors human rights violations in Iran, released the following report: An appeal request made by the lawyer representing Zaynab Bayazidi was turned down by officials in high court of justice. …
Posted in Activism, General, Iran, Women | Comments Off on Iranian High Court denies Zaynab Bayazidi's appealHana Abdi, women rights activist and student of Bijar University, released from prison. Hana was arrested on October 2,2007 in Sanandaj. She was sentenced to five years of imprisonment in exile, but the court of appeal has reduced her sentence …
Posted in Iran, Prisoners of Conscience, Women | Comments Off on Hana Abdi Released from Iran PrisonHuman rights monitors say Iranian authorities continue to detain and harass men and women of Iran’s ethnic Kurdish minority. According to the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, an independent human rights group, more than 100 ethnic Kurdish literary, cultural, and …
Posted in Discrimination, Executions, Free speech, Human Rights Watch, Iran, Journalists, Political Prisoners, Prisoners of Conscience, Reports, Suppression, Women | Comments Off on Iran's harassed Kurdish minorityAccording to a press release by Human Rights Activists in Iran, Zeinab Jalalian, a member of the Kurdish party, has been sentenced to execution for “acting against national interests”. Ms. Jalalian is a political activist from Maku who has been …
Posted in Call to Actions, Executions, Iran, Political Prisoners, Trials, Women | Comments Off on Kurdish activist sentenced to executionZeynab Bayazidi was arrested on the 9th of July and subsequently sentenced to 4 years imprisonment in exile under charges of belonging to an illegal organization (the Kurdistan Human Rights Organization) and for her involvement in the One Million Signatures …
Posted in Activism, Iran, Prisoners of Conscience, Women | Comments Off on Statement demands review of sentence against imprisoned journalistFrom Iran Human Rights Voice: Hana Abedi is a Kurdish student who has been in detention for the past fourteen months, with the last two months spent in exile in Razan Prison in the city of Hamedan. Her family members …
Posted in Iran, Trials, Women, Youth | Comments Off on Presiding Judge in Hana Abedi Case Not Aware of Her Exile