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Interview with Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and lawyer in Iran. Photo: portrait of Ebadi.
Shirin Ebadi: “Gender apartheid means you are discriminating against half of society”
16 September 2024 by Anahita Davari
Two years ago, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian student, died after she was arrested by morality police for allegedly not wearing hijab properly. Her death triggered large-scale protests in Iran which were met with brutal repres [...]
International law: exchange of prisoners between Sweden and Iran. Photo: Hamid Nouri speaks to the Iranian press on his return to Tehran. International law put to the test in prisoner exchanges
4 July 2024 by Christian Catomeris
On June 15th 2024, Sweden announced the exchange of two of its nationals imprisoned in Iran for Hamid Nouri, a former Iranian official sentenced in 2022 by the Swedish courts for his role in mass executions in Iranian prisons in 1 [...]
Gender apartheid for women in Iran and women in Afghanistan - Photo: a woman wearing a hijab walks down a street, closely followed by a Taliban patrol. Crimes against Afghan women drive push to recognize “gender apartheid”
20 June 2024 by Julia Crawford
Richard Bennett, UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan, told the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday that violations against women and girls in that country were “so severe and extensive” that “they may amount to crimes against huma [...]
Iraj Mesdaghi displays documents on a table Sweden-Iran: Noury faces death row survivors
13 January 2022 by Lena Bjurström
Former Iranian prison official Hamid Noury, on trial for war crimes before a court in the Swedish capital Stockholm, has since last summer been confronted with the testimony of witnesses. He denies any involvement in the mass exec [...]
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Kazem Rajavi
26 October 2021 by Julia Crawford
Why Switzerland is relaunching an Iranian cold case for "genocide" The cold case of an Iranian dissident assassinated in Switzerland 30 years ago was ordered reopened on September 27 by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court, on suspicions of “genocide or crimes against humanity”. Why?
Activist in front of thousands of photos of victims of the 1988 massacres in Iran
10 September 2021 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Why the trial of an Iranian in Sweden is a "big deal" In the middle of the summer, a trial of considerable historical and symbolic significance for the Iranians opened in Sweden. That of one Iranian prison official, alleged to have played a role in mass executions carried o [...]
Activist in front of thousands of photos of victims of the 1988 massacres in Iran
24 August 2021 by Lena Bjurström
Iran: first trial for 1988 massacres opens in Stockholm Since August 10, a Swedish court has been trying a former Iranian official who allegedly took part in the mass executions carried out in Iranian prisons in 1988. The trial is as historic as it is politically sensitive, with new Ir [...]
24 August 2018 by AFP
Four questions on Iran's legal challenge to US sanctions Iran's legal challenge against renewed sanctions by the United States goes before the UN's International Court of Justice on Monday.  Here are four key questions regarding the case:   What is the case about? Iran's attempt to bloc [...]
17 July 2015 by Dr. Gilad Ben-Nun, Global & European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig
The Return of Diplomacy: What Consequences for Transitional Justice? Diplomacy has resumed its role, trumping ’go it alone’ military interventions. Time-wise, we’re in for the long haul- but that could spell some good news.   The fruitful culmination of negotiations between world powers and Iran ov [...]