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Feb 21 2011 4:20PM
We support the Tunisian, Egyptian and other Middle East and North Aftrican uprising against the dictators

On the anniversary of the Iranian revolution The peoples of the Middle East and North Africa have woken up! On the anniversary of the 1979 Iranian revolution, International Coalition Against Violence in Iran (ICAVI) supports whole...

Dec 23 2010 8:28PM
Merry Christmas among worries for the imprisoned priest condemned to death in Iran.

A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Iranian Christians International Coalition Against Violence in Iran (ICAVI), with regards to all other religions, wishes a Merry Christmas for all Iranian Christians.Throughout the world at this...

Dec 23 2010 8:25PM
Merry Christmas to the Iranian Christians among worries for the imprisoned priest in Iran

A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Iranian Christians International Coalition Against Violence in Iran (ICAVI), with regards to all other religions, wishes a Merry Christmas for all Iranian Christians.Throughout the world at this...

Dec 18 2010 9:54AM
Free Nasrin Sotoudeh from prison. Sit in protest in Geneva.

Protest outside the United Nations Offices in Genève, Switzerland by a group of women’s rights activists. ‘Free Nasrin Sotoudeh’ Press Release No. 1 Freedom-Loving People of the World; The life of Nasrin Sotoudeh, an Iranian human...

Dec 2 2010 9:18PM
women in Iran: victims of an unjust law

Shahla Jahed, second temoporary wife of footballer, Naser Mohammed Khani, who was sentenced to death by hanging for murdering Laleh Saharkhizan, Mohammed Khani's first official wife was hanged at the Evin Prison early Wednsday morning...

Dec 1 2010 10:24AM
Early this morning Shahla Jahed was hanged in Evin prison

Shahla Jahed , the temoporary wife of one of Iran's famous footballers, Naser Mohammedkhani, who was acxcused of murdering his first wife, Laleh Sahar Khizan some 9 years ago was executed by hanging in Evin prison today. The family of...

Nov 26 2010 9:54AM
Drury Dyke of Amnesty Middle East Team speaks at ICAVI conference

On 6 November 2010 International Coalition Against Violence in Iran (ICAVI) held its first conference "A Non-Violent Approach to the Growing Violence in Iran at SOAS. Women Action Network of Amnesty kindly contributed to the travel...

Nov 24 2010 9:30AM
Stop further executions in Iran! Shahla Jahed to be executed!

. URGENT ACTION iranian footballer’s wife’s execution scheduled ADditional InformationShahla Jahed, who had contracted a temporary marriage with Nasser Mohammad-Khani, a former striker for the Iranian national football team and former...

Nov 24 2010 9:28AM
Stop further executions in Iran: Shahla Jahed to be executed!

URGENT ACTION iranian footballer’s wife’s execution scheduled ADditional InformationShahla Jahed, who had contracted a temporary marriage with Nasser Mohammad-Khani, a former striker for the Iranian national football team and former...

Nov 24 2010 9:24AM
Stop another Kurdish National to be executed!

URGENT ACTION KURD’S DEATH SENTENCE TO BE CARRIED OUTADditional InformationBoth Hossein Khezri and Zeynab Jalalian were convicted of “moharebeh” (enmity against God) for membership of the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (known by its...

Nov 24 2010 9:22AM
Stop  another Kurdish National due to be executed!

URGENT ACTION Kurd’s death sentence to be carried out Hossein Khezri, a member of Iran’s Kurdish minority, is at imminent risk of execution. His death sentence was sent "for implementation" on around 17 November, after the publication...

Nov 10 2010 10:38PM
Iran was rejected to become member of Executive Board of UN Women!

Election of 41 members of the Executive Board of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women 10 November 2010 http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2010/11/election-of-41-members-o…...

Nov 10 2010 8:04AM
Nasrin Sorudeh, human rights lawyer on dry hunger strike

Nasrin is the mother of two young children. She is the defence lawyer to many juvenilles on death row. She has been in detention for committing no crfime in a country where criminals are free and honest lawyers are in jail. In...

Nov 3 2010 8:52AM
Iran & Saudi Arabia Might sit at the new UN Women Exedcutive Committee

Oppose Iran ’s government’s attempt to join the executive board of the newly established United Nations Women! Women of Iran , subjected to gender discrimination, oppression and imprisonment Women in Iran are deprived of many basic...

Nov 3 2010 8:48AM
Stop Iran to sit at the UN Women Executive Committee

Oppose Iran ’s government’s attempt to join the executive board of the newly established United Nations Women! Women of Iran , subjected to gender discrimination, oppression and imprisonment Women in Iran are deprived of many basic...

Oct 17 2010 10:18PM
16,00 people signed petitions for the immediate release of Nasrin Sotoodeh.

Sun, 17 October, 2010 20:03:58 1600 Call for Immediate Release of Nasrin Sotoodeh http://www.irangenderequality.com/ Two Statements with 1600 Signatures Call for the Immediate and Unconditional Release of Nasrin Sotoodeh, Human Rights...

Oct 17 2010 10:16PM
Call for the immediate release of Nasrin Soroodeh who is in danger due to hunger strike!

Sun, 17 October, 2010 20:03:58 1600 Call for Immediate Release of Nasrin Sotoodeh http://www.irangenderequality.com/ Two Statements with 1600 Signatures Call for the Immediate and Unconditional Release of Nasrin Sotoodeh, Human Rights...

Sep 28 2010 11:00PM
After a lifetime in his country, Tuka Niyestani son of the late poet Manuchehr Niystani left Iran for the following reasons:

I was getting tired of my criminal life. I used to teach graphics to some young men and women but that was not acceptable. I used to have live models but that was not acceptable. In my classes I was talking of things that were not...

Sep 25 2010 5:50PM
WOMAN PUT TO DEATH IN VIRGINIA

1st Update on UA 181/10 USA Teresa Lewis (f) Teresa Lewis, a woman assessed as having "borderline mental retardation", was executed by lethal injection in Virginia, USA, on the evening of 23 September for the murder of her husband and...

Sep 7 2010 7:07PM
Iran is holding the biggest number of political prisoners

Human Rights House of Iran reports that at present there are more than 600 political prisoners kept in the Iranian prisons. The figure might be higher but information is hard to verify the correct figure. Out of the 600 prisoners: 173...

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