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Center for Constitutional Rights Challenges Patriot Act Material Support Law in Supreme Court Today
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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
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 German 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
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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
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 Amnesty 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
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vokradio.com, Los Angeles, California, USA
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URGENT ACTION
: KURDISH MAN AT RISK OF EXECUTION IN
IRAN
 Habibollah 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
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vokradio.com,Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Society for Human Rights in Iran-Southern California
Press Release
Index. 02-012010
Date: 01/19/2009 12:00 pm
Phone: 310-990-1696
Email:
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website: www.shrisc.org
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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