Publications
“Any Hopes for Truth?”: New book compares MENA and Caucasus disappearances
Justice for Iran, 21 May 2019 — Experts on enforced disappearances warned that the efforts to seek rights to truth and justice continue to be suppressed and forgotten in the […]
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Iran: Release Political Prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared
Behind Bars Unjustly Since 2009, Eligible for Release in 2017 May 20, 2019—Iran must end the cruel and unlawful imprisonment of Maryam Akbari-Monfared, who has already served nearly ten years […]
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Iran: Maximum Impunity
Submission to the 34th Session of the United Nation Human Rights Council for the third circle of the Universal Periodic Review of the Islamic Republic of Iran Justice for Iran […]
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UN recognises more enforced disappearances from Iran’s 80s mass executions
27 March 2019- Following Iranian human rights defender Jafar Behkish’s complaint about the fate of his six family members who had been extra-judicially executed during the 1980s, the United Nations […]
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Over 40 organizations urge UN to continue human rights mission in Iran
16 March 2019- Justice for Iran and 41 other NGOs signed a joint letter on Thursday urging the member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) to support […]
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Forty NGOs sign joint letter to General Assembly urging support for Iran resolution
12 November 2018- Justice for Iran and 39 other civil society organizations have written a letter to the members of the United Nation General Assembly, urging all missions to support resolution […]
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UN Special Rapporteur to ensure the protection of human rights in the aftermath of the armed attack in Ahwaz
25 September 2018- Justice for Iran has sent a letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, to […]
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127 Rights groups call for immediate release of Nabeel Rajab after UN group calls his detention arbitrary and discriminatory
International Federation for Human Rights- Paris-Geneva-Manama, 29 August 2018 – For the second time since 2013, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has issued an Opinion […]
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Thousands of Political Dissidents are Buried in Mass Graves Across Iran
29 August 2018: Thirty years after the 1988 prison massacre, the Islamic Republic of Iran continues to deny the extra-judicial killing of thousands of political dissidents and their burial in […]
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‘Stop Harassing Activists’ Families,’ Rights Groups Tell Iran
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty- Three human rights organizations have urged Iranian authorities to stop “harassing and threatening” the families of activists and journalists as a tactic to silence dissent and criticism. Human Rights […]
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