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Ebrahim Yazdi Offers No Defense to Protest Lack of Jurisdiction in Revolutionary Court

Ebrahim Yazdi Offers No Defense to Protest Lack of Jurisdiction in Revolutionary Court

Mehdi Nourbakhsh, son-in-law of Ebrahim Yazdi, the former Secretary General of the Iran Freedom Movement, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Ebrahim Yazdi did not offer any defense at his 2 November trial, choosing to maintain silent. “He had a court session at 10 a.m. on 2 November, with Judge Salavati presiding. But because he found the court unqualified for reviewing his charges, he did not defend himself, saying only, “This court is not qualified to review my charges.’”

7th November 2011

UN Committee Says Iran Fails to Uphold the Majority of Civil and Political Rights

On 4 November 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Committee issued its concluding observations regarding Iran’s record of upholding civil and political rights. The Committee, which is comprised of leading human rights experts, raised concerns that Iran fails to meet, what amounts to, the majority of protections mandated by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

4th November 2011

Abdollah Momeni’s Wife: “We Are Prohibited from Visiting Him Because He Wrote the Truth”

Abdollah Momeni’s Wife: “We Are Prohibited from Visiting Him Because He Wrote the Truth”

Fatemeh Adinehvand, wife of prisoner of conscience and student activist Abdollah Momeni, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that her husband is under interrogation in prison and is not in good spirits. “On Monday, 24 October, when I went to visit him in prison, he wasn’t in good spirits but he also didn’t say anything about his interrogation. I don’t know if he was being interrogated before our meeting or after it. But either way he was not in good spirits this week.”

4th November 2011

Children of Arrested Baha’is: “We Have No Recourse”

Children of Arrested Baha’is: “We Have No Recourse”

Following the sentencing of seven Baha’is associated with the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court, their families’ only hope is that the Appeals Court will change the ruling. They were each sentenced to four or five years in prison and were all transferred from Evin Prison to other prisons several days after the lower court ruling.

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