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Center for Constitutional Rights Challenges Patriot Act Material Support Law in Supreme Court Today چاپ ارسال به دوست
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ccr_logo.gifCenter for Constitutional Rights Challenges Patriot Act Material Support Law in Supreme Court Today

 

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February 23, 2010
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Obama Administration Defending Law that Makes Speech Advocating Human Rights a Terrorist Crime; Amicus Briefs Submitted by Carter Center, Hollywood Blacklist Victims and Others

NEW YORK and WASHINGTON - February 23 - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the first case to challenge a portion of the Patriot Act before the highest court in the land. The case, originally brought in 1998 on behalf of a human rights group, a retired federal administrative judge, a doctor, and several nonprofit groups, challenges the constitutionality of the law that makes it a crime to provide “material support” to groups the administration has designated as “terrorist.”  In particular, the plaintiffs charge that the law goes too far in making speech advocating lawful, nonviolent activity a crime.  The lower courts have unanimously declared several provisions of the law – including one added by the Patriot Act – unconstitutionally vague because they encompass speech and force citizens to guess as to their meaning. 

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Barbara Lochbihler EU member Concerns on Recent arrests of human rights defenders &Kurdish prisoners چاپ ارسال به دوست
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barbara_lochbihler_991_01.jpgGerman Green MEP Barbara Lochbihler EU Human Rights Commission member Concerns on Recent arrests of human rights defenders & Kurdish prisoners
 
Concerns: Recent arrests of human rights defenders

 

Brussels, 21st January 2010

 

Your Excellency,

I am writing you to express my deep concern over recently arrested human rights defenders. Shiva Nazarahari, Kouhiar Goodarzi, Saeid Kalaanaki, Saeid Jalaalifar, Saeid Haeri, Parisa kaakaa'ee and Mehrdad Rahimi all belong to the Committee of Human Rights Defenders, and are currently imprisoned.  I consider the Committee of Human Rights Defenders to be an organisation bringing genuine human rights-related concerns to light, and their activities must not be impeached by Iranian authorities

Another point of concern is the execution of 17 members of Iran's Kurdish minority who are on death row after their conviction for political offences. It was reported that the trials have been unfair and that some have been tortured in detention and have been denied access to a lawyer. I urge you to halt the executions of Kurdish and other political prisoners.

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Unite for human rights in Iran on February 11th چاپ ارسال به دوست
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  spacer Unite for human rights in Iran on February 11th

    February 11th is Victory of the Revolution Day in Iran. Equivalent to the Fourth of July in the United States, it is a day commemorating liberty, independence and freedom. But the Iranian government has long violated these rights and is responsible for numerous abuses including torture, arbitrary arrests, censorship and the most recent execution of two activists accused of inciting the post-election protests on June 12th – even though these men had been held in detention long before the violence erupted.

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Amnesty International: Kurdish man at imminent risk of execution in Iran چاپ ارسال به دوست
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habib-latifi1.jpgAmnesty International: Kurdish man at imminent risk of execution in Iran

22 January 2010

The Iranian authorities must not execute a Kurdish man on death row whose transfer to solitary confinement last week raises fears that his execution could be imminent, said Amnesty International.

Habibollah Latifi was sentenced to death in July 2008 after he was convicted of moharebeh (enmity against God) in connection with his membership of and activities on behalf of the Kurdish Independent Life Party (PJAK), a banned armed group.

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Amnesty International: URGENT ACTION; KURDISH MAN AT RISK OF EXECUTION IN IRAN چاپ ارسال به دوست
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URGENT ACTION : KURDISH MAN AT RISK OF EXECUTION IN IRAN

thumb_amnestylogo.gifthumb_habib-latifi1.jpgHabibollah Latifi, a male member of the Kurdish minority in Iran, has been transferred to solitary confinement in Sanandaj prison, Kordestan province, northwestern Iran. The transfer to solitary confinement is often an indication that an execution is going to take place within days. Another Iranian Kurdish man, Sherko Moarefi, remains on death row at Saqqez Prison in Kordestan province.

Habibollah Latifi, a law student at Azad University in the south western Province of Ilam, western Iran, was transferred to solitary confinement on 16 January. His lawyer is not known to have been notified of a scheduled execution as is required by law, although in some cases executions have taken place without this notification being issued. His family has not been notified that he will be executed but fear that he is at imminent risk of execution. 
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Iran Must Halt Execution of Kurdish Women, Shirin Alam-Hoei چاپ ارسال به دوست
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Society for Human Rights in Iran-Southern California
Press Release
 
Index. 02-012010
Date: 01/19/2009 12:00 pm

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Iran Must Halt Execution of Kurdish Women

The Iranian authorities must halt the execution of a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death by Tehran's Revolutionary Court under the charge of ‘Moharebeh' (enmity against God) on January 10, 2010.

 

Last year, Shirin Alam-Hoei, a resident of Makoo (a city in western Azerbaijan) was detained allegedly because of her connection with the opposition group PJAK (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan)

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