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By Hollie McKay | February 28, 2021 | 4:16pm EST (Illustrative photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) – It is the stuff of nightmares. Young men whose healthy limbs are severed by their very own government based on arbitrary and unproven crimes, rendering them a life of even more poverty in the realms of the anguished and disabled. This is modern-day Iran, wrapped in the markers of the medieval. “People whose limbs are amputated are normal people who are hungry and are stealing something for their personal need. It is really beyond belief tha...

Paris-Geneva, February 19, 2021 women’s rights defenders Najmeh Vahedi and Hoda Amid were upheld on appeal. The Observatory (FIDH-OMCT) and the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) condemn this decision and call for an end of the judicial harassment against them and all other human rights defenders in Iran. On February 13, 2021, women’s rights defender Ms. Najmeh Vahedi, and lawyer and women’s rights defender Ms. Hoda Amid, were notified that, on February 2, 2021, the Branch 36 of the Court of Appeals of Tehran had upheld the decision of Branch 15 of the Islamic Revo...

Paris-Geneva, February 15, 2021 – The Observatory and League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) are extremely concerned by the conviction and detention of human rights defender Reza Eslami for allegedly cooperating with the US government over a human rights course. Photo of Reza Eslami. Credit unknown On October 20, 2020, Branch 15 of the Islamic Revolution Court in Tehran held its first hearing in the case of Reza Eslami, an Iranian-Canadian Associate Professor of Human Rights and Environmental Rights at Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University, on charge of “cooperatio...

Share Share on Twitter In a small church in Melbourne’s far south-eastern suburbs, Reverend John Smith stands with his arms outstretched, palms facing the sky, delivering prayers in a powerful Persian monologue. The 41-year-old is encircled by worshipers, all Iranian-born Christian converts, just a small selection of the more than 500 he’s baptised himself. This scene is the realisation of a calling that, more than a decade ago, he almost gave his life to heed. Born in Iran to a Muslim family, he attended mosque until he was 18, when, as an adult, he le...

British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady was charged with "promoting homosexuality". (YouTube/ Kameel Ahmady) British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has been sentenced to eight years in prison for “promoting homosexuality” and conducting “subversive” work in Iran. Ahmady grew up in Iran, before travelling to the UK as a student, and as an anthropologist has studied child marriage, the LGBT+ community and female genital mutilation in Iran, including a book titled Forbidden Tale, a comprehensive research report on LGB people in Iran. The anthropologist explains on his website...