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Jamshid Sharmahd 's trial is presided over by the 'death judge' Abolqasem Salavati.
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Jamshid Sharmahd 's trial is presided over by the 'death judge' Abolqasem Salavati.
LONDON: Iran has set trial dates for British-Iranian labor rights activist Mehran Raoof and German-Iranian national Nahid Taghavi, who are due to appear before judges on Wednesday in separate cases, the UK-based newspaper The Guardian reported. Raoof, 64, a former teacher in London, has been held in solitary confinement for more than five months in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison after he was secretly recorded talking about politics in a cafe, human rights campaigners have revealed. Taghavi, 66, a retired architect who has diabetes, was arrested last October during a crackdown on women’s...
A sad day for human rights: Nasrin Sotoudeh in prison for 1000 days Iranian human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh, a beacon of hope for many Iranians suffering under the theocratic mullah dictatorship, marked the thousandth day of her prison sentence on 8 March 2020. She was arrested on 13 June 2018 and later sentenced to 33 years imprisonment and 148 lashes. Nasrin Sotoudeh campaigned primarily against anti-women laws and fought against the arbitrary violation of existing rights within the Islamic Republic. Before her new conviction, Nasrin Sotoudeh worked to defend two young women who publ...