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UN Working Group concludes that detention of human rights defenders in Iran is arbitrary

February 6, 2014

In an opinion adopted on 20 November 2013, the United Nations UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention [WGAD] requested the release of Iranian human rights defenders Khosro Kordpour and Massoud Kordpour from arbitrary detention. The WGAD carried out its investigation pursuant to an appeal by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and informed the Observatory (an FIDH-OMCT joint program me) of its decision on 4 February, 2014. Read the rest of this entry »

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Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards

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UN Working Group concludes that detention of human rights defenders in Iran is arbitrary

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