TEHRAN, June 16 - Imprisoned prominent Bahraini activist Hajer Mansoor Hassan has been finally taken to hospital after being denied medical treatment for three months.
TEHRAN, May 24 - A court in Thailand granted bail Thursday to 15 pro-democracy activist s who were arrested earlier this week during a protest against military rule at which several thousand police were deployed.
TEHRAN, May 22 - At least 10 women's rights activist s — seven women and three men — are being interrogated and held without access to a lawyer in Saudi Arabia.
TEHRAN, May 19 - International rights groups have slammed the arrests of at least seven prominent Saudi Arabian women's rights activist s, which were made just one month before the kingdom is set to lift its decades-long driving ban on women.
TEHRAN, April 23 - A Bahraini court has postponed the trial of prominent opposition figure and pro-democracy campaigner Nabeel Rajab, who has been kept behind bars over his criticism of the ruling Al Khalifah regime and the Wahhabi ideology, until May 8.
TEHRAN, January 31 - Saudi officials have put on trial a pro-democracy campaigner and anti-regime activist without the presence of a defense lawyer and letting members of his family know about the trial session.
TEHRAN, January 30 - A prominent anti-war activist based in California highlighted the major role of the US in the ongoing human tragedy in Yemen and slammed the United Nations’ inaction, saying the organization functions as a “rubber-stamp of approval” for the crimes of Washington and its allies.
TEHRAN, December 4 - A political analyst and author based in London warned against the deteriorating health conditions of Sheikh Isa Qassim, the spiritual leader of Bahrain’s Shiite majority, saying that Al Khalifa’s move to deny medical treatment to the top cleric is nothing but “1st-degree murder”.
TEHRAN, October 25 -The Tel Aviv regime adopts tactics in order to terrorize Palestinian children and expose Israeli policies on them, says a commentator.
TEHRAN, September 7 - Amnesty international has censured Bahrain for using “an array of repression tools,” including torture and sexual abuse, in its brutal crackdown on dissent, blaming the silence of the Western states, especially the US and the UK, for a sharp rise in Manama’s use of violence.
TEHRAN, September 2 - Thousands of Argentineans have taken to the streets in several cities, urging the government to secure the safe return of an indigenous human rights activist , who is said to have disappeared while in police custody.
TEHRAN, July 8, YJC - An American human rights organization has called on the US State Department to pressure Bahrain to immediately and unconditionally release prominent human rights activist and pro-democracy campaigner Nabeel Rajab, who has been kept behind bars over his criticism of the ruling Al Khalifah regime and the Wahhabi ideology.
TEHRAN, June 9, YJC - Beijing has criticized a United Nations rights envoy for demanding the release of an activist , saying the official has clearly overstepped his mandate and is meddling with China’s judiciary system.
Tehran, YJC. The EUHR’s meeting with a number of women’s rights activist s has been subject to much criticism calling the activist s seditionists of the 09 election.