🧵URGENT: Iranian authorities must immediately halt any plans to execute Akbar (Shahrokh) Daneshvarkar, Babak Alipour, Mohammad Taghavi Sangdehi, Pouya Ghobadi & Vahid Bani Amerian. On 7 August, authorities violently transferred them out of the Greater Tehran Penitentiary. 1/3

Dozens of female political prisoners face extreme heat, power cuts, filthy conditions, & denial of medical care after violent transfer from Evin to Qarchak Prison. This is silent torture in #QarchakPrison during the summer. iran-hrm.com/2025/08/09/sco…

All political and security death row prisoners in #Iran are currently at serious risk of execution. It is vital that their families and lawyers publicise their cases, and that the public, civil society and the international community work to halt the Islamic Republic’s execution

Growing Concern About Death Row Political Prisoners in Iran deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2025/08/growin… #iran #sharia #islam #politicalprisoners #shamtrials #deathpenalty

Goli Koohkan was 12 years old when her family married her to her cousin without asking her consent. At 13, she was pregnant. By 18, she was in prison facing execution for her husband’s death. At the police station, officers called the frightened 18-year-old and directed her to

For the first time since my academic career was effectively destroyed by my wrongful arrest in Iran in 2018, I have published a peer-reviewed journal article. Still not sure whether academia is where I'm meant to be, but I'm pleased to have finally got a tentative first step back

Kathleen Folbigg spent 20y in jail after being wrongly convicted of killing her children. I gave expert testimony in the appeals which led to her acquittal. She deserves a home of her own and the ability to live her life without financial anxiety. abc.net.au/news/2025-08-1…

Today marks the 8th anniversary of 17-year-old Kian Loyd delos Santos death, killed by police in Caloocan City. #rememberKian

Where are the headlines? This mother in Iran is about to be hanged and I really feel helpless seeing silence from the big names, the anti-war activists in the West, the feminist leaders, the so-called free world leaders. Her only “crime”? Fighting for freedom and dignity for her

Workers & women's rights defender Sharifeh Mohammadi is at grave risk of execution after Branch 39 of the Supreme Court upheld her unjust conviction & death sentence on 16 Aug. Urgent global action is needed NOW calling on Iran's authorities to halt any plans to execute her! 1/3

Here is my response to being struck off from the roll of Hong Kong Solicitors, which was made public today in the Hong Kong Government Gazette. (Link to Gazette entry: gld.gov.hk/egazette/engli…)

🚨We fully support Kevin Yam 任建峰's powerful statement, which rejects any accusation of wrongdoing and recalls the vindictive lengths the #HK authorities will go to harry those who speak up for rule of law and in defence of those unjustly persecuted in #HongKong.

A huge thanks to Law Council, Australia’s peak national legal body, for speaking out against my Hong Kong disbarment within a day of it being made public. My disbarment is not just about me. It is a reflection of where the Hong Kong legal system is at right now.

My interview with ABC News PM program on Australia's decision to kick out the Iranian ambassador and, finally, to proscribe the IRGC as a terror organisation abc.net.au/listen/program…

Iran | Two women executed in Shiraz and Zanjan Prisons deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2025/08/iran-t… #iran #sharia #islam #women #deathpenalty

I am most grateful to Lawyers for Lawyers, The Law Society, IBA's Human Rights Institute, CCBE, Asian Lawyers Network (ALN), Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada, Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales and The Rights Practice for their strong statement of support against my Hong Kong disbarment. This support from international legal groups from England and Wales,

My Myanmar story kicks off the latest season of the Suspicious Transactions Report - the podcast devoted to anti-money laundering/counter terrorist financing: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/str…

Today at the start of 60th Session of UN Human Rights Council, Volker Türk said: Despite the global trend to abolition the death penalty, there is an alarming increase in executions in some states. In Iran more than 840 persons have been executed since the start of this year, that is more the

The EU condemns the execution of Mehran Bahramian and the alarming pace of executions in Iran It urges Tehran to end death sentences against protesters, uphold due process, and move towards abolition of the death penalty. European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺 Anitta Hipper Anouar El Anouni 🇪🇺 #StopExecutionsinIran

Three years after the death in custody of Mahsa Jina Amini in Iran, which sparked the widespread “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, women are still finding ways to protest against the Islamic Republic regime’s new methods of crackdown. sbs.com.au/news/article/h…