Story by By Associated Press Reporters Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, has been awarded the European Union (EU)’s top human rights […]
Seventy years after the coup in Iran overthrew the democratically elected government, former British Foreign Secretary, David Owen, has described the event as being orchestrated by British Intelligence to safeguard British imperialist interests in Iran’s oil resources. With the active […]
Notice of AGM 2023 Join us to celebrate, plan, and consolidate CODIR’s work. 14:30 – 16.30 Saturday, 11 November Venue in central London and online (details to follow) All CODIR’s members and affiliates are invited. Email us on codir_info@btinternet.com for information and registration forms. This […]
UN independent human rights experts on Wednesday called for the immediate release of Narges Mohammadi, an imprisoned Iranian human rights activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her unwavering commitment to women’s rights in the country. Ms. Mohammadi […]
7th October 2023 Press release For immediate use The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) has welcomed the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned women’s and human rights activist, Narges Mohammadi, and noted that […]
Reacting to the news that unjustly imprisoned Iranian human rights defender Narges Mohammadi has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, said: “Narges Mohammadi receives this prize today from behind bars in Iran where she has […]
The international community must demand that the Iranian authorities allow the UN Fact-Finding Mission and other independent monitors to enter the country to investigate the circumstances leading to the hospitalization of 16-year-old Armita Garawand, who fell unconscious on a Tehran metro train […]
The struggle of the Iranian people for basic freedoms, civil rights, and social justice, will not be stifled by the arrest of social activists and intensification of repression in the country! Last month, scores of political prisoners in the notorious […]
21 September 2023 The anniversary of the murder in custody of 22 year old Mahsa Amini, by the Iranian regime saw the theocratic dictatorship tighten security in an attempt to suppress protests to mark the anniversary. Steve Bishop reports. On […]
Reacting to the news that Iran’s parliament has passed a new bill that would impose further draconian penalties severely violating women’s and girls’ rights as well as increasing prison terms and fines for defying Iran’s degrading and discriminatory compulsory veiling laws, […]
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