Iran Focus-News - Special Wire - German MEPs demonstrate against stoning in Iran
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Friday, December 31, 2004
Refugees and asylum seekers subjected to HR abuses - PakTribune
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Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Daily Times - Iran reviews case of woman sentenced to hang
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Iran Focus-News - Special Wire - Iran: 18-year-old facing imminent execution for crime committed as minor
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Sunday, December 26, 2004
Iran: Fear for safety/ Torture and ill-treatment/ Incommunicado detention - Amnesty International
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RADIO FREE EUROPE/ Iran Accuses Rights Groups Of Propaganda
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Iranian Parliament Speaker Refuses To Comment About Journalists Arrest
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Friday, December 24, 2004
Thursday, December 23, 2004
Death penalty in Iran 'vice' case
Cruel and inhuman punishments continue in Iran, said a recent UN report.
Iranian officials have confirmed that a court has sentenced a young woman to death for prostitution but denied that she is mentally disabled.
Leyla Mafi was sentenced more than a year ago at a court in Arak after being found guilty of having illegal sex.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2004
RADIO FREE EUROPE/ Iran: Rights Groups Shine Spotlight On Capital Punishment
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UN condemns Iran human rights violations
UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. General Assembly on Monday approved a U.S.-backed resolution criticizing Iran for human rights violations, citing new restrictions on freedom of expression and the persecution of political and religious dissenters.
The measure, which is not legally binding but reflects global opinion, was approved 71-54 with 55 abstentions.
The world body said there is a "worsening situation" regarding freedom of opinion and expression, and freedom of the media, "especially the increased persecution for the peaceful expression of political views, including arbitrary arrest and detention without charge or trial."
It cited "crackdowns by the judiciary and security forces against journalists, parliamentarians, students, clerics and academics; the unjustified closure of newspapers and blocking of Internet sites." It also criticized the disqualification of large numbers of candidates and harassment of opposition activists in the run-up to parliamentary elections in February.
On a positive note, the General Assembly welcomed the Iranian government's invitation to some human rights investigators, a recommendation by the head of the judiciary that judges not propose stoning as a punishment, and the judiciary chief's announcement in April of a ban on torture.
It urged Iran to abide by its human rights obligations and to fully implement the ban on torture, expedite judicial reform, eliminate religious discrimination, end cruel and degrading punishments such as amputation and flogging, eliminate stoning, and institute prison reforms.
The resolution, which was co-sponsored by 34 countries, deplored Iran's execution of children under the age of 18 in violation of international statutes.
It protested continued restrictions on free assembly and forcible dissolution of political parties, the absence of due process of law, and the use of national security laws to deny individual rights.
It cited "the systemic discrimination against women and girls in law and in practice, despite some minor legislative improvements," the continuing discrimination against Christians, Jews and Sunnis, and the increasing discrimination against the Bahais.
The measure, which is not legally binding but reflects global opinion, was approved 71-54 with 55 abstentions.
The world body said there is a "worsening situation" regarding freedom of opinion and expression, and freedom of the media, "especially the increased persecution for the peaceful expression of political views, including arbitrary arrest and detention without charge or trial."
It cited "crackdowns by the judiciary and security forces against journalists, parliamentarians, students, clerics and academics; the unjustified closure of newspapers and blocking of Internet sites." It also criticized the disqualification of large numbers of candidates and harassment of opposition activists in the run-up to parliamentary elections in February.
On a positive note, the General Assembly welcomed the Iranian government's invitation to some human rights investigators, a recommendation by the head of the judiciary that judges not propose stoning as a punishment, and the judiciary chief's announcement in April of a ban on torture.
It urged Iran to abide by its human rights obligations and to fully implement the ban on torture, expedite judicial reform, eliminate religious discrimination, end cruel and degrading punishments such as amputation and flogging, eliminate stoning, and institute prison reforms.
The resolution, which was co-sponsored by 34 countries, deplored Iran's execution of children under the age of 18 in violation of international statutes.
It protested continued restrictions on free assembly and forcible dissolution of political parties, the absence of due process of law, and the use of national security laws to deny individual rights.
It cited "the systemic discrimination against women and girls in law and in practice, despite some minor legislative improvements," the continuing discrimination against Christians, Jews and Sunnis, and the increasing discrimination against the Bahais.
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Monday, December 20, 2004
Independent: Mentally-ill girl who was sold for sex faces death penalty in Iran
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Iran: Woman to Be Buried Up to Chest and Stoned to Death In The Next Five Days
Iran: Woman to Be Buried Up to Chest and Stoned to Death In The Next Five Days: "Iran: Woman to Be Buried Up to Chest and Stoned to Death In The Next Five Days "
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Infoshop News - Iran - Two women face death after "morality trial"
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Aftenposten Norway, Iran's ambassador dismisses protestors
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World News Article | Reuters.co.uk Iranian woman faces noose or stoning
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Iran: Judiciary Uses Coercion to Cover Up Torture (Human Rights Watch, 20-12-2004)
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MORE WOMEN ON DEATH ROW IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN (Iran Press Service)
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Reporters sans frontires - Iran:Cyber-journalists forced to give false evidence at colleague's trial
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004
World News Article | Reuters.co.ukAsylum hunger strikers in hospital in Australia
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Independent: Mentally-ill girl who was sold for sex faces death penalty in Iran
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Amnest International: Fear of imminent execution/fear of flogging
PUBLICAI Index: MDE 13/048/2004 10 December 2004UA 332/04 Fear of imminent execution/fear of flogging IRAN Leyla M (f), aged 19"Leyla M", who has a mental age of eight, is reportedly facing imminent execution for "morality-related" offences arising from her being forced into prostitution as a child. According to a Tehran newspaper report of 28 November, she was sentenced to death by a court in the central Iranian city of Arak while she was 18, and the sentence has now been passed to the Supreme Court for confirmation.According a 5 May 2004 report in the daily newspaper Khorasan, Leyla M was sentenced to death on charges of "acts contrary to chastity" (a'mal-e khalaf-e 'ofat) by controlling a brothel, having intercourse with blood relatives (eteham-e zena ba maharem) and giving birth to an illegitimate child (tavallod-e bache-e haram). She is to be flogged before she is executed. She had apparently "confessed" to the charges. This report stated that there would be an appeal, and the 28 November report indicates that this process is now at an end.According to the 28 November report, social workers have repeatedly tested her mental capacities, and each time they have found her to have a mental age of eight. However, she has apparently never been examined by the court-appointed doctors, and was sentenced to death solely on the basis of her explicit confessions, without consideration of her background or mental health.
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Saturday, December 11, 2004
Iran: Civil society activists and human rights defenders under attack - news.amnesty - Amnesty International
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IranMania News: Iranian asylum seeker arrested at Tehran airport
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Tuesday, December 07, 2004
RADIO FREE EUROPE: Iran: Baha'is Face Continuing Harassment In Iran
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Iran: Torture Used to Obtain �Confessions� (Human Rights Watch, 6-12-2004)
Evidence obtained by Human Rights Watch confirms that secret squads of interrogators—primarily former intelligence officers purged in the late-1990s by President Mohammed Khatami but now employed by the judiciary—forced the detainees to write these “confession letters” under extreme pressure as a condition for their release on bail. In an attempt to cover up the government’s illegal detention and torture of detainees, interrogators have coerced them to write self-incriminatory letters that describe detention conditions as satisfactory and confess that civil society organizations are part of an “evil project” directed by “foreigners and counter-revolutionaries.”
“The Iranian government shouldn’t think for a minute that anyone will believe in the authenticity of these letters. They’re fooling no one,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “With stunts like these, Tehran is rapidly losing its already meager credibility on human rights.”
Human Rights Watch has documented an extensive pattern of forced confessions by political detainees who have later retracted their statements, which they have attributed to their interrogators. The Iranian government continues to pursue a project to strangle critics and activists, one that Human Rights Watch documented in the report, “Like the Dead in Their Coffins.”
In its latest phase, the government has resorted to forced “confessions” to pave the way for the prosecution of reformist politicians and leaders of civil society organizations. By obtaining self-incriminating confessions, the government is attempting to destroy individuals’ reputations, sow discord among activists and ultimately shut down all independent voices and organizations.
Most recently, Human Rights Watch verified independently the contents of a document published anonymously last week by an official working for the Iranian judiciary. In his letter, the official describes the location of secret detention centers and the torture and mistreatment of detainees, including lengthy solitary confinement. The official published this letter in response to the Iranian government’s denial of secret detention centers and the mistreatment of detainees.
Human Rights Watch called on the Iranian government to dismantle and prosecute secret squads operating within the judiciary, end arbitrary detentions, release all political prisoners, and comply with its human rights obligations under international treaties.
“The judiciary is more worried about protecting its secret squads from later prosecution than ensuring the rights of those detained”, said Whitson.
“The Iranian government shouldn’t think for a minute that anyone will believe in the authenticity of these letters. They’re fooling no one,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “With stunts like these, Tehran is rapidly losing its already meager credibility on human rights.”
Human Rights Watch has documented an extensive pattern of forced confessions by political detainees who have later retracted their statements, which they have attributed to their interrogators. The Iranian government continues to pursue a project to strangle critics and activists, one that Human Rights Watch documented in the report, “Like the Dead in Their Coffins.”
In its latest phase, the government has resorted to forced “confessions” to pave the way for the prosecution of reformist politicians and leaders of civil society organizations. By obtaining self-incriminating confessions, the government is attempting to destroy individuals’ reputations, sow discord among activists and ultimately shut down all independent voices and organizations.
Most recently, Human Rights Watch verified independently the contents of a document published anonymously last week by an official working for the Iranian judiciary. In his letter, the official describes the location of secret detention centers and the torture and mistreatment of detainees, including lengthy solitary confinement. The official published this letter in response to the Iranian government’s denial of secret detention centers and the mistreatment of detainees.
Human Rights Watch called on the Iranian government to dismantle and prosecute secret squads operating within the judiciary, end arbitrary detentions, release all political prisoners, and comply with its human rights obligations under international treaties.
“The judiciary is more worried about protecting its secret squads from later prosecution than ensuring the rights of those detained”, said Whitson.
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