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IOPHRI - On Saturday May 4, in France, a group of Iranian human rights supporters of the International Organization to Preserve Human Rights in Iran expressed their solidarity with all the political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Iran. They played daf together and demanded the unconditional and immediate release of Nasrin Sotoudeh and the imprisoned dervishes.

IOPHRI - Last Sunday evening, 21April, members of the International Organization to Preserve Human Rights in Iran met at the main station in Hanover, playing music on a Persian frame drum Daf along with violin and loudly demanded the release of Nasrin Sotoudeh and the dervishes internet personnel and  laywers, imprisoned in Evin prison in Tehran, Adel Abad prison in Shiraz and Bandar Abbas's central Prison.

Amnesty International - Although the global trend towards abolition remained strong, 2012 saw a disappointing resumption of executions in a number of countries, notably Gambia, India, Japan and Pakistan.

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FME - Iran lacks basic women's rights - This "gender apartheid" of Iranian women is reminiscent of the treatment of blacks in South Africa. Let's stop Iran's Gender Apartheid together!

IOPHRI - Freedom for Nasrin in The Hague, The Netherlands on 23 February 2013

Jonathan Lark - On February 2009 around 80.000 persons,who are members of Nematollah-Gonabadi Dervish Order, marched in front of the parliament in Teheran, Iran in order to protest against persecutions and destructions of their khâneghâs(gathering places) by regime forces. In remembrance of this brave action of the dervishes humans around the globe celebrate the "day of dervishes" with music and public speeches raising concern about the vast human rights violations by the regime.

Iran Human Rights Documentation Center -The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) is a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)—a human rights treaty that requires that states act in the best interests of the child and safeguard the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children.