Mohammad Mostafaei, the first lawyer for Reyhaneh Jabbari, the 26 year old woman Iranian who was recently executed for killing an assailant, told UN Watch Friday that Jabbari was not given a fair trial: I was Reyhaneh Jabbari’s lawyer. Mr. Larijani’s statement is completely false. It is not true that she had...

Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Right in the Islamic Republic of Iran, compiled a report on the status of minorities in Iran to be presented to political leaders Tuesday. Benjamin Weinthal reports that despite Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s campaign promise to extend citizenship...

Reyhaneh Jabbari, a 26 year old Iranian woman, was hanged Saturday after international pleas to spare her life were disregarded by the Iranian government. The Telegraph reports: Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged at dawn in Rajaie Shahr prison outside Tehran after spending seven years behind bars. She was the 967th person...

An editorial today in The Washington Post condemns the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for “once again blatantly violating the ‘red line’ drawn by Mr. Obama against the use of chemical weapons” and violating its commitment to abide by the Chemical Weapons Convention it signed last year. One grim indication that...

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported Wednesday on the ongoing protests in Iran against acid attacks against women that “apparently occurred because they were not properly veiled.” Hundreds gathered in front of the parliament building in Tehran on October 22, while eyewitnesses said hundreds came to the Justice Ministry building...

A post today by legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich explained the significance of the American Studies Association’s (ASA) reversal of its policy to boycott Israeli academics. If the ASA’s original action was important for popularizing such boycotts (at least in the narrow quarters of area studies), its reversal is equally important for showing them to be...