Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

For Iran’s Activists, Prison’s Just the Start

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Iranian officials, under international pressure and facing domestic unrest, have reacted by increasing their pressures on activists. It is unclear how many are behind bars, but Human Rights Watch has documented dozens of cases of people who have been sentenced or detained for merely exercising their freedom of expression by criticizing the government and engaging in peaceful activism. Expand Arash Sadeghi © 2014 Private But sending activists to prison is just the start of their suffering in Iran, experience shows. Arash Sadeghi, 38, whom authorities have imprisoned repeatedly and…

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