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NGO Bill Translation
No.: 66 Date: December 13, 2010 Report from the Social Affairs Committee to the Islamic Consultative Assembly This Committee has…
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran 3/6/2012
A/HRC/19/66 Human Rights Council Nineteenth session Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention Summary The present…
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What follows campaigning? Moving from awareness to reform.
In this installment of the Laurier Institution Community Dialogue Series on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, Gissou Nia -- the Executive…
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IRAN: ‘WE ARE ORDERED TO CRUSH YOU’: EXPANDING REPRESSION OF DISSENT IN IRAN
The net of repression is widening in Iran. The authorities are arresting filmmakers, bloggers, human rights defenders, women’s rights activists,…
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The Question of "Stoning to Death" in the New Penal Code of the IRI
In this legal essay, Iranian lawyer Mohammad Hossein Nayyeri explains why, contrary to popular reports, the silence of Iran's new…
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Infographic of the number of executions in Iran in 2012
The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to execute people at an alarmingly high rate including those convicted for drug trafficking,…
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Treatment of Children in the New Islamic Penal Code – Chart of Applicable Punishments
(23 February 2012) – In recent weeks, many claims have been made by Iranian parliamentarians and subsequently spread in Iranian…
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Criminal Responsibility of Children in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s New Penal Code
(22 February 2012) -- In this IHRDC legal essay, Iranian defense lawyer Mohammad Hossein Nayyeri explains why the new Islamic…
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Update: Return of seven Kurdish political prisoners to Orumieh’s central prison
(21 February 2012) – Last week, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center received reports that on Tuesday, February 14 seven…
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Saeed Malekpour: A Canadian on Iran’s death row
By Olivia Ward Foreign Affairs Reporter Evin Prison Ward 350 The pain bores through the night like a red hot needle: a…
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