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19 Female Prisoners of Conscience Currently Detained

  Name Offense Sentence Arrest Date Details Nasrin Sotoudeh Spreading lies against the state 11 years 9/4/10 Sotoudeh is a human rights Lawyer. Her sentence was later reduced on 09/2011 to 6 years and 10 year ban on practicing law Cooperating with the Center of Human Rights Defenders Acting against ...

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Report – January 28, 1998

Report on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, prepared by the Special Representative of the Commission on Human Rights, Mr. Maurice Danby Copithorne, pursuant to Commission resolution 1997/54.

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15 Kurdish Detainees Sentenced to Death

Name Offense Sentence Arrest Date Details Mohammad Amin Abdollahi Muharebeh Death Penalty 2008 Membership of Kurdish group. Charged 01/16/2010. second arrest- first in 2005 when charged with anti-regime propaganda Acting against national security Ali Afshari Muharebeh Death Penalty 12/14/10 Membership of Kurdish group. Charged 08/2011. Acting against national security Rashid ...

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2007 GA Resolution Renewing SG's Iran Reporting Mandate

A/C.3/62/L.43 Distr.: Limited 2 November 2007 Original: English     Sixty-second session Agenda item 70 (c) Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives     Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, ...

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32 Students Currently Detained

Table I 32 Students Currently Detained Name Charges Sentence Arrest Date Details Ali Ajami Propaganda and conspiracy against the regime 4 years 2/1/10 Sentence later reduced to 2 years Javad Alikhani no information 5 years Fall 2007 Sentence later reduced to 3 years. Peyman Aref Propaganda against the regime 1 ...

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