Women's rights

An arts institution in the German capital has decided to showcase 28 artworks created by Mir Hossein Mousavi, an Iranian opposition leader currently under house arrest for more than two years.
A former advisor to the governor of Iran’s Fars Province has been arrested, sources told the Green Voice of Freedom today.
A senior conservative figure has once again called for an end to the stalemate surrounding the house arrest of 2009 presidential candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi.
Security forces in Fars Province have arrested blogger and student Badri Safiari, according to the Committee of Human Rights Reporters.
Gohar Eshghi, mother of an Iranian blogger tortured to death while in detention, has vowed to take her own life if authorities fail to bring to justice those responsible for her son’s suspicious death.
Close 250 Iranian women have condemned the continued harassment of the family of imprisoned opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi.
Iran has stepped up executions of prisoners including juveniles as well as arrests of dissidents who are often tortured in jail, sometimes to death, the United Nations reported on Thursday.
A major political group in the European Parliament has called for the immediate release of Iran’s opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Mousavi’s wife Zahra Rahnavard, two years after the start of their arbitrary house arrest.
Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi and six human rights groups have called on the Iranian authorities to “immediately” release from arbitrary house arrest the leaders of the country’s opposition Green Movement Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, his wife Zahra Rahnavard.
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