Iran: Four women were sentenced to flogging and imprisonment
Four women, civil rights activists, were sentenced to 91 days in prison and 30 lashes of the whip for participating in a gathering in support of the prisoner ...
Read moreFour women, civil rights activists, were sentenced to 91 days in prison and 30 lashes of the whip for participating in a gathering in support of the prisoner ...
Read moreA few hours after being released from Varamin's Qarchak Prison on January 4, 2017, Zahra Shafii said, "They read out the court's verdict for us in prison… Our ...
Read moreThe Iranian Judiciary sentenced 10 women each to three months jail and 10 lashes of the whip for “disrupting public order”. Zahra Sadat Ibrahimi, a follower of prisoner ...
Read moreGohar Eshghi, the bereaved mother of Sattar Beheshti, the young worker and web blogger who was killed under torture by intelligence ministry agents in November 2012 for blogging ...
Read moreWith the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, eating, drinking, and smoking in public will be punished with 74 lashes of the whip. In an interview with ...
Read moreOn Thursday, June 2, Iranian media reported that a spokesperson for the Judiciary defended last week’s flogging of students for taking part in a graduation party. Tasnim News ...
Read moreGeneva, 31 May 2016 - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned the brutal and abhorrent fogging of 35 young male and female students in Qazvin last ...
Read moreA woman was flogged this morning, April 27, 2016, in public in the city of Golpayegan, in the central Iranian Province of Isfahan. The unidentified woman had been ...
Read moreSimin Aivaz-zadeh, mother of political prisoner Omid Alishenas, was sentenced to 91 days imprisonment and 74 lashes. The deadline for objection to the sentence and demanding revision was ...
Read moreA court in north-western Iranian city of Tabriz sentenced the protesters against a TV program insulting the Turks, to prison and flogging. Turkish activists staged a rally last ...
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