Archive for May 2014

IRAN: Stop torture, cruel and inhuman treatment against Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand and other human rights defenders

Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand

Paris-Geneva, May 7, 2014 – The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint FIDH-OMCT programme, has been informed about acts of torture as well as cruel and inhuman treatment against Mr. Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand, an Iranian human rights defender and President of the Human Rights Organisation of Kurdistan, who has been serving an 11-year prison sentence since 2007.

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