Mohammad Moayidi News Today

The number of journalists imprisoned worldwide is the highest ever recorded in the 30 years since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has issued its prison census.

Iran appears set to be ousted from a UN women's commission on December 14 for policies contrary to the rights of women and girls, but several countries are expected to abstain from the vote requested by the United States.

The father of Mohammad Mehdi Karami, an imprisoned Iranian protester, says his son has informed him by phone that he has been handed a death sentence by Iranian judicial authorities.

Female political prisoners incarcerated in Iran's notorious Evin prison have published a letter expressing concern about the issuance and execution of death sentences for those arrested during the recent anti-government protests.

Eyewitnesses to the death of Omid Moayidi say he was first shot in the back as he ran from Iranian security forces during street protests before being shot at close range in the head. Officials have pressured his family to say that Moayidi was not protesting, but was shot by "rioters" as he drove.

The chief of Iran's Law Enforcement Command has threatened to crack down more decisively on protesters as Iran enters its fourth month of unrest touched off in mid-September by the death of a young woman in police custody over how she was wearing a head scarf.

Belgium's constitutional court on December 8 suspended a prisoner exchange treaty with Iran criticized for opening the way for a bomb-plot mastermind to return to Tehran.