Iran

Sharareh Abdolhoseinzadeh is a law student and a PhD in Political Sociology. She files this from Tehran.  On Friday, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an imprisoned Iranian woman, Narges Mohammadi, a political and civil activist who has been in prison for many years. In selecting her, the Nobel Committee emphasized her connection [...]

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Sharareh Abdolhoseinzadeh is a law student and a PhD in Political Sociology. She files this from Tehran.  A few days ago, the Iranian Parliament approved a plan that, if approved by the Guardian Council of the Constitution, would destroy the limited independence of the hundred-year-old Iranian Bar Association. According to this resolution, lawyers’ associations will [...]

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Sharareh Abdolhoseinzadeh is a PhD in Political Sociology and a political researcher in Tehran.  Saturday was International Human Rights Day, but the situation in Iran is extremely anti-human. Serious decisions and executions of youths arrested in protests have started, and thousands of detainees live in limbo. Iran is sad. Everyone is shocked. People came to [...]

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Law students and young lawyers in Iran are reporting for JURIST on protests and related developments in Iran since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. Here, filing separately, two of our correspondents in Tehran offer context and perspective on a new government regulation giving Iran’s judiciary the power to dismiss members of the country’s [...]

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Law students and young lawyers in Iran are reporting for JURIST on protests and related developments in Iran since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. One of our correspondents files this from Tehran. For security and privacy reasons, we are withholding her name.  Protests are still going on in Iran and protesters are still [...]

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