Friday, April 27, 2007

Human Rights Watch Criticizes Iran for Convicting Women’s Rights Activists

A U.S.-based human rights group has criticized Iran for imposing lengthy jail sentences on six women activists. In a statement Thursday, Human Rights Watch is appealing to the head of Iran’s judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi Shahrudi to immediately overturn the convictions and in the group’s words, “end the persecution of all such human rights defenders.”

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