Continued Unexplained Detention of Two Kurdish Citizens

A human rights activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that more than 50 days after Kurdish citizen Madeh Alavi Jani’s arrest and detention, his charges are still unknown. After his arrest, Alavi Jani, a teacher from Saghez, was transferred from Saghez to the Sanandaj Intelligence Office on 7 June. He was returned to Saghez on 26 July. During a telephone call to his family, Alavi Jani told them that he has not been informed of any specific charges, nor presented with any valid evidence against him.

Tehran Prosecutor’s Illegal Actions Against Political Prisoners Should be Stopped

Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, has turned the absolute legal rights of Iranian political prisoners, imprisoned journalists, and prisoners of conscience into special privileges that can only be granted a prisoner upon Mr. Dolatabadi’s decision. In order to use these absolute and legal rights, families of political prisoners have to pursue them vigorously and to pass many administrative and bureaucratic hurdles in order to secure the Prosecutor’s permission. This is because Mr. Prosecutor has sacrificed the prisoners’ rights in favor of his partisan interpretations of the laws.

Weekly Rights Podcast 32

In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: the final trial session for the three American hikers, Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, and Sara Shourd has taken place; the Campaign published a report entitled, Raising Their Voices: Iranian Civil Society Reactions to the Military Option; the Campaign interviewed the head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi; the father of imprisoned student activist Zia Nabavi expresses concern for his situation; the Supreme Court of Qom Province issued an official verdict in the case of Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani; pressure remains on women in Iran’s film industry; Amnesty International received a video of a public hanging in which three men convicted of rape were hanged; and the Iranian government announced that a clash between the Revolutionary Guard and rebels near the Iraq border ended with 2 Revolutionary Guard deaths and 21 dead rebels.

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