The Guardian - A British-Iranian academic and anti-war activist who was detained in Iran has returned to the UK. Abbas Edalat, a professor in computer science and maths at Imperial College London, had been held in custody since April, according to the Centre for Human Rights in Iran. Irans official IRNA news agency had reported that Edalat was ...

Narges Mohammadi, the deputy head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) co-founded by Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, was arrested on May 5 at her home in Tehran, according to her husband. Speaking to RFE/RL by telephone from Paris, Taghi Rahmani said the officers apparently arrived early in the morning with an arrest warrant....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the International Human Rights Center in Iran Ahmad Esfandiari said his center has sent a letter to the UN to dispatch independent rapporteurs to the US to investigate the numerous human rights violations in the country. "We have sent a letter to the UN to ask them to provide the ground for the presence of the center's independent ...

Winston Nagan is a professor of law and the founding director of the Institute for Human Rights and Peace Development at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and a former chairman of the board of directors of Amnesty International, USA (1989-91). Avoid any kind of socializing with the deviant and misleading sect.These are the words in the ...