Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards

Iranian activists have issued a statement urging the government to release political prisoners for Norooz, the Iranian New Year. Radio Zamaneh reports that 440 Iranian civic and political activists of various stripes have signed a statement demanding that the government at least allow political prisoners to spend the New Year with their families, on the first day of spring in March.

The statement condemns the harsh sentences handed recently to Nasrin Sotoudeh, Nargess Mohammadi and Abdolfattah Soltani, members of the Human Rights Defenders Centre, and it denounces the arrest of journalists, political activists and all prisoners of conscience.

via Iranian activists call for release of political prisoners for Norooz.

This entry was posted on March 18, 2012 at 12:49 and is filed under human rights, Human Rights Defenders.

Tags: Abdolfattah Soltani, detention, HRDs, Human Rights Defenders, Iran, Nargess Mohammadi, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Norooz, political prisoners