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Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, has called on the rulers of Iran to “bend to the will of the people” and to cease the use “of imprisonment, torture, and murder in the name of religion.”
The Coordination Council of the Green Path of Hope has called for commemorations to be held on the third anniversary of the electoral coup that sparked the largest demonstrations in Iran since the 1979 revolution.
Just days before Iranians mark the third anniversary of the widely contested 2009 presidential elections, a group of opposition supporters are using the social networking site Facebook as a platform for commemorating the election and its aftermath.
Student activist Moeen Ghamin has been detained, according to human rights sources in Iran.
More than 100,000 Iranian workers lost their jobs in the past year alone, says the head of Iran’s House of Labour.
Stop the repression of Iran’s working class, says a group of Turkish labour activists.
In his second report, Ahmad Shaheed, the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, has documented a “striking pattern of violations of fundamental human rights” in the country and called for the government's “meaningful cooperation” with the organisation's human rights mechanisms.
Video: Occupy Wall Street activists' message for Iran's political prisoners
Iranian labour activist Mehrdad Vaziri has been arrested in Iran’s Kurdistan Province.
GVF — Iran’s opposition Green Movement has called for fresh protests on 14 February, just three days after Iran marks the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.