Human Rights Activists And Ganji's Experience, by Shrin Ebadi (Rooz Online)

Human Rights Activists And Ganji's Experience (Rooz Online)

"Khavaran" , one of many official and none-official grave yards in Iran outside Tehran. The cemetery is burial place for victims of execution and torture of political prisoners. No grave stones or signs are allowed to mark the mass graves.
 

Location of "Khavaran" (marked with a red dot) , one of many official and none-official grave yards in Iran outside Tehran. The cemetery is burial place for victims of execution and torture of political prisoners. No grave stones or signs are allowed to mark the mass graves. 

Reza Alijani
Reporters without Borders. Taghi Rahmani, of the weekly Omid-e Zangan, Hoda Saber, of Iran-e farda, and Reza Alijani, Iran-e farda's editor and winner of the Reporters Without Borders - Fondation de France Prize in 2001, who had been given heavy jail sentences in May but not arrested, were detained on 14 June and accused of having secret meetings with students who had staged anti-regime demonstrations that month. They were arrested on the orders of Judge Mortazavi.
See http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9940

Hoda Saber
Reporters without Borders. Taghi Rahmani, of the weekly Omid-e Zangan, Hoda Saber, of Iran-e farda, and Reza Alijani, Iran-e farda's editor and winner of the Reporters Without Borders - Fondation de France Prize in 2001, who had been given heavy jail sentences in May but not arrested, were detained on 14 June and accused of having secret meetings with students who had staged anti-regime demonstrations that month. They were arrested on the orders of Judge Mortazavi.
See http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9940

Taghi Rahmani
Reporters without Borders. Taghi Rahmani, of the weekly Omid-e Zangan, Hoda Saber, of Iran-e farda, and Reza Alijani, Iran-e farda's editor and winner of the Reporters Without Borders - Fondation de France Prize in 2001, who had been given heavy jail sentences in May but not arrested, were detained on 14 June and accused of having secret meetings with students who had staged anti-regime demonstrations that month. They were arrested on the orders of Judge Mortazavi.
See http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9940

Amnesty International: At least four prisoners were sentenced to death by stoning while at least 197 people were sentenced to be flogged and 11 were sentenced to amputation of fingers and limbs. The true numbers may have been considerably higher
See http://web.amnesty.org/report2004/irn-summary-eng 

Amnesty International considers the punishment of flogging to constitute cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment amounting to torture, in contravention of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to which Iran is a state party. See http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGMDE130082004?open&of=ENG-IRN 

Amnesty International. Dariyush Foruhar, a prominent critic of the Iranian government, and his wife, Parvaneh Foruhar, were killed at their home in Tehran on 22 November. Dariyush Foruhar, Minister of Labour in the Provisional Government of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979, was the leader of the Iran Nation Party (Hezb-e Mellat-e Iran), a banned opposition group. Parvaneh Foruhar was also a prominent opposition activist. See http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engMDE130251998
 

Amnesty International. Dariyush Foruhar, a prominent critic of the Iranian government, and his wife, Parvaneh Foruhar, were killed at their home in Tehran on 22 November. Dariyush Foruhar, Minister of Labour in the Provisional Government of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979, was the leader of the Iran Nation Party (Hezb-e Mellat-e Iran), a banned opposition group. Parvaneh Foruhar was also a prominent opposition activist. See http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engMDE130251998 

Zahra Kazemi, who had dual Canadian and Iranian nationality, died at the Baghiyetollah Hospital in Tehran while under guard. She was arrested for taking photographs of people protesting against the detention of family members outside the Evin prison in northern Tehran. Amnesty International has documented for years cases of ill-treatment and torture in detention. See http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engmde130222003 

Amnesty International: Mohammad Mokhtari, another writer questioned over the establishment of Kanun, was found dead in suspicious circumstances on 9 December 1998 after having been missing for six days. Marks on his head and neck suggest he may have been beaten and strangled. See http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engMDE130251998?OpenDocument&of=COUNTRIES%5CIRAN 

Amnesty International outraged at reported execution of a 16 year old girl. The execution of Ateqeh Rajabi is the tenth execution of a child offender in Iran recorded by Amnesty International since 1990. Amnesty International has urged Iran’s judicial authorities to halt further executions of child offenders - people who were under 18 years old at the time of the offence. This is to bring Iran’s law and practice in line with requirements of international human rights law.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engmde130362004

Amnesty International: At least 108 executions were carried out, including of long-term political prisoners and frequently in public. At least four prisoners were sentenced to death by stoning while at least 197 people were sentenced to be flogged and 11 were sentenced to amputation of fingers and limbs. The true numbers may have been considerably higher. See http://www.irantestimony.com/Docs/Report/AI/2004.htm