Archive for February 2014

IRAN: The UN finds the detention of human rights defenders Khosro Kordpour and Massoud Kordpour arbitrary; release and reparation requested

February 6, 2014 Human Rights Comments Off on IRAN: The UN finds the detention of human rights defenders Khosro Kordpour and Massoud Kordpour arbitrary; release and reparation requested

Khosro Kordpour and Massoud Kordpour

Paris-Geneva, February 5, 2014 – In an opinion adopted during its 68th session on November 20, 2013, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) requested the release of Iranian human rights defenders Khosro Kordpour and Massoud Kordpour from arbitrary detention.

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