Haleh Sahabi
Mourning the Death of Ezatollah Sahabi and His Daughter
Women’s rights campaigner Haleh Sahabi, died of a heart attack this morning after a scuffle with plainclothes forces during the funeral for her father. Sahabi had been released on furlough in order to attend the funeral. She had been imprisoned since 2009. May
Wave of Repression in Iran
IRAN: Series of sentences, acts of judicial harassment and arbitrary detentions of human rights defenders Paris-Geneva, February 8, 2011. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human