Iran Human Rights

Iran: 12 Couples Arrested For Partner Swapping

smh.com.au | Posted 11.23.2009 | World


Iran's moral police have arrested a dozen couples for engaging in illicit sexual acts, including swapping partners, the conservative Jomhuri Eslami re...

Iran: With whom to engage?

Reza Pahlavi | Posted 11.03.2009 | World


Reza Pahlavi

The international community must stand in solidarity with the people of Iran through a palpable commitment to their struggle to institute true democracy and respect for human rights.

Why Washington Should Welcome Iran's Broadening of the Agenda

Trita Parsi | Posted 11.11.2009 | World


Trita Parsi

Washington should not reject a conversation with Iran about Tehran's blatant hypocrisy, it should welcome it. If Tehran wants to broaden the agenda, then indeed, let it be broadened.

Iran To Fund Research Into U.S. Human Rights Violations

washingtonpost.com | Thomas Erdbrink | Posted 09.24.2009 | World


TEHRAN, Aug. 23 -- Iranian lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Sunday for a bill creating a $20 million fund intended in part to expose human rights vio...

Iran Juvenile Executions: Amnesty International Protests Death Sentence Of Juveniles

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.06.2009 | World


A week after the execution of a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Delara Darabi, two more controversial cases have emerged to contribute to the country's hig...

Roxana Saberi Case To Be Reviewed By Iranian Court

Associated Press | Ali Akbar Dareini | Posted 06.05.2009 | World


TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An Iranian appeals court will hear the case of an American journalist convicted of spying for the United States next week, the ju...

Delara Darabi, Executed Iranian Woman, Spurs Human Rights Outrage

The Independent | Claire Soares | Posted 06.04.2009 | World


The Independent By Claire Soares It was 7am when Delara Darabi phoned home. "Oh mother, I see the hangman's noose in front of me," she garbled. "The...

Iranian Dissidents Abroad At Risk Of Having Nowhere To Go

Economist | Posted 05.10.2009 | World


"IT WAS one of the strangest places I'd ever seen," says one of the few Farsi-speaking Westerners to have spent weeks in Camp Ashraf, 65km (40 miles) ...

Baha'is Subject To Persecution In Iran, Labeled As Spies (AUDIO)

WorldFocus | Posted 04.18.2009 | World


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Iranian Human Rights Should Be Issue No. 1 For Obama: Commentary

Washington Post | Posted 04.16.2009 | World


We are democracy activists who are passionate about our home country, Iran. One of us, Mariam, immigrated to the United States at age 7, during the 19...