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Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has called for a UN fact-finding committee to investigate the death of ...

Narges Mohammadi and other activists detained in Mashhad as unrest disrupts event in honour of lawyer Khosrow Alikordi ...

Mr Hussein Khalid. The lawyer and CEO of Vocal Africa is a constant presence wherever human rights abuses occur.

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee has condemned Iran’s arrest of laureate Narges Mohammadi, urging her immediate release and ...

"The Norwegian Nobel Committee is deeply concerned by today's brutal arrest of Narges Mohammadi alongside a number of other activists. Ms. Mohammadi - the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate - is a ...

Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, was “violently” arrested by Iranian security forces on Friday. She was detained at a memorial ceremony for a lawyer who died earlier this month, ...

Seven Aban: a new, powerful voice of independent, highly educated liberal dissidents with organizational talent and political ...

Today in History for Dec. 10: In 1520, in Wittenberg, northeast of Leipzig in present-day eastern Germany, religious reformer Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict demanding that he recant or ...

NEW YORK, March 3, 2010 - Shirin Ebadi argues against economic sanctions for Iran—but also says Western businesses should pay a penalty for helping the current regime repress its own people. (2 min.) ...

The Nobel Committee’s choice, then, was bound to make waves. Some hailed it as a long-overdue spotlight on Venezuela’s ...