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Human rights in Iran

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New doc features the life of Iran’s leading human rights lawyer

Human rights

For two decades, Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has fought for the rights of children, women and minorities in Iran. She has been arrested several times and is currently serving a 38-year prison sentence. “Nasrin” is a new documentary that tells her life story. 

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The Iranian government admits to killing protesters

Protest
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End of Iran nuclear deal cuts major diplomatic channel for Americans imprisoned in Iran

Justice
Jason Rezaian

Spying? Press freedom groups lambaste Iran’s charges against US reporter

Global Politics
Haleh

For journalists in Iran, being arrested is an all-too-common occurrence

Global Politics
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Iranian hardliners jail young people because they’re being too Happy

Arts, Culture & Media

The Pharrell song “Happy” has captured the imaginations of young people around the world. In Iran, though, the government isn’t pleased with the way its young people have taken to the song.

Iran frees jailed US hikers

Conflict & Justice

Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal who had been given eight-year jail terms by Iran for spying have been released on bail.

Baha’i scholars await trial in Iran

Eight members of the Bahai’i religious minority  are awaiting trial in Iran, after organizing the Baha’i Institute for Education, a place where dismissed professors teach Baha’i youth as volunteers. The Iranian government recognizes the Baha’i community as a political organization, rather than a religious group, and declared the center illegal. Mahtab Farid’s father  is one of the […]

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Dorothy Parvaz Released

Conflict & Justice

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the Fred Parvaz, father of Dorothy Parvaz, the Al-Jazeera journalist who was released Wednesday from detention in Tehran’s Evin prison. She was sent to Iran in April from Syria where she had tried to report on the protests.

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Former Iranian prisoner tells her story

Conflict & Justice

In 2007, Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari left the U.S. to visit her mother in Iran. She tells us how she was arrested in Iran, charged with treason and kept in solitary confinement for more than 100 days.

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