Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi has written an open letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, decrying illegal detentions in Iran.  The letter outlines the cases of a number of imprisoned human rights defenders, including women’s activist Narges Mohammadi, all detained for their participation in human rights activities.  Ebadi warned that “the continuation of such circumstances will lead to a growing violation of human rights, escalation of the current tension in Iranian society and intensification of the social crises in the country”.

Read the letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human rights (English / Farsi ).

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Iran marks election anniversary with more arrests, Nobel Women’s Initiative, 16 June 2010.

Shirin Ebadi: The brutal crackdowns only make Iran’s women stronger, The Guardian, 8 June 2010.

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Write to Ayatollah Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, Iran’s Head of the Judiciary, to protest the arrest of Narges Mohammadi, and to show solidarity with women human rights activists in Iran.

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