11.09.2012 - International Crisis Group 

Report on the conflict between the Turkish government and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) (organisation, leadership and factions of the PKK; PKK in Syria, Iraq and Iran; Kurdish political party BDP ("Peace and Democracy Party")) [ID 226713]

10.09.2012 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 

US welcome release of pastor Youcef Nadarkhani reportedly sentenced to death on charges of apostasy, but state that religious freedom is still restricted [ID 226759]

10.09.2012 - Reporters Sans Frontières 

Journalists and cyber-dissidents Shiva Nazar Ahari and Jila Bani Yaghoob arrested to begin serving jail sentences for plotting against national security and anti-government propaganda [ID 226491]

10.09.2012 - Amnesty International 

Iranian businessman Mazyar Ebrahimi and 11 others have been held incommunicado since June 2012; on 6 August the 5 women and 7 men appeared on Iranian state television “confessing” to the killing of 5 Iranian nuclear scientists and academics [ID 226531]

09.09.2012 - Iran Focus , Author: CNN

Gilan province: Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who was sentenced to death for apostasy and held in prison for close to 3 years, has been acquitted by a trial court [ID 226694]

08.09.2012 - Human Rights Watch 

Execution of Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani, who has been sentenced to death for enmity against God (moharebeh) for supporting the Mojahedin-e Khalq group, could be imminent [ID 226553]

08.09.2012 - Human Rights Watch 

Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani, who is convicted of helping the dissident Mojahedin-e Khalq group, may be at imminent risk of execution, according to unconfirmed reports [ID 226582]

08.09.2012 - Christian Solidarity Worldwide 

Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani has been acquitted of apostasy and released; he was found guilty of evangelising Muslims and sentenced to 3 years in prison, but has already served this time since his arrest in 2009 [ID 226746]

07.09.2012 - Amnesty International 

Up to 23 individuals at imminent risk of execution; 22 of them were taken from their cells and referred to Evin prison and one was allegedly scheduled for execution on 10 September [ID 226408]

05.09.2012 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 

2 Azerbaijani poets who were arrested for alleged espionage released [ID 226144]

05.09.2012 - Congressional Research Service 

Report on the political and security situation (political history; regime structure, stability; opposition; human rights; foreign policy and terrorist groups) [ID 211881]

04.09.2012 - Human Rights Watch , Author: CNN World's Global Public Square Blog

Under the new draft of the penal code, which is yet to be signed into law by the president, child offenders could still be sentenced to death for a number of crimes; the code also still includes punishments amounting to torture [ID 226185]

04.09.2012 - UN Human Rights Council (formerly UN Commission on Human Rights) , Author: Liberal International

Written statement submitted by Liberal International on abolition of the death penalty in Belarus, China, Iran, the Russian Federation, Singapore and the United States of America [ID 227095]

03.09.2012 - Amnesty International 

Journalist and prisoner of conscience Zhila Bani-Yaghoub has begun serving a one-year prison sentence for "spreading propaganda against the system" and "insulting the president"; she has also been banned from media and journalistic activities for 30 years [ID 226060]

31.08.2012 - UN Human Rights Council (formerly UN Commission on Human Rights) , Author: Bahá'i International Community

Written statement submitted by the Bahá'i International Community on systematic persecution of Bahá'is in Iran [ID 226063]

30.08.2012 - Amnesty International 

East Azerbaijan province: Hossein Ronaghi Maleki and Navid Khanjani were re-arrested on 22 August 2012 after security forces reportedly attacked a relief camp for earthquake victims; both men are held in an unknown location and charged with "distributing unclean and non-hygienic goods" [ID 225737]

28.08.2012 - Iran Human Rights Documentation Center 

Commentary on the execution of juvenile offenders in Iran [ID 227883]

28.08.2012 - Human Rights Watch 

Report on planned reform of penal code and implicated human rights violations (death penalty for child offenders; other crimes punishable by death) [ID 225570]

24.08.2012 - Amnesty International 

Prisoner of conscience and writer Arzhang Davoodi has been imprisoned for nearly 9 years; he faces a court hearing on 28 August on a new charge of “enmity against God”, which carries a possible death sentence [ID 225159]

23.08.2012 - Amnesty International 

Tehran: Writer Arzhang Davoodi, imprisoned since October 2003, has a court hearing on 28 August on the new charge of “enmity against God”; he may have been tortured or ill-treated in Evin Prison [ID 225147]

22.08.2012 - Iran Focus , Author: Agence France-Presse

Rights group call for an end to international financial aid for Iran's anti-drug program; the authorities' battle against drugs has led to a rise in executions; in 2010 and 2011 more than 1,000 drug offenders were executed [ID 225060]

22.08.2012 - UN General Assembly 

Report of the UN Secretary-General on the human rights situation (torture and ill-treatment; death penalty; juvenile offenders; women's rights; rights of minorities; freedom of peaceful assembly, association, opinion and expression) [ID 229747]

22.08.2012 - Human Rights First (formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) 

Report on convictions based on the violation of blasphemy laws (mob violence as consequence of blasphemy laws; violation of freedom of belief; blasphemy laws as means to settle private disputes) [ID 226015]

21.08.2012 - Human Rights Watch 

Iranian drug control programs include the prosecution of drug suspects amounting to their execution without fair trial [ID 224986]

20.08.2012 - Iran Focus , Author: The New York Times

36 universities have banned women from 77 fields of study [ID 225059]