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Khomeini speaking in Qom and criticizing the Shah's government. In 1963, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran's Shah started several programs in Iran which was known as "The Revolution of the Shah and the People" or the White Revolution, it was referred to as white due to it being a bloodless revolution.
With the rise of the Iranian reform movement and the election of moderate Iranian president Mohammad Khatami in 1997, numerous moves were made to modify the Iranian civil and penal codes in order to improve the human rights situation. The predominantly reformist parliament drafted several bills allowing increased freedom of speech, gender ...
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi hands out documents of ownership of land to new owners during the White Revolution's land reform, 1963. The White Revolution (Persian: انقلاب سفید, romanized: Enqelâb-e Sefid) or the Shah and People Revolution (Persian: انقلاب شاه و مردم, romanized: Enqelâb-e Šâh o Mardom) [1] was a far-reaching series of reforms resulting in aggressive ...
Iranian Committee for the Defense of Freedom and Human Rights (1977–1980) Eponym Group (1980) Association for Defense of Freedom and the Sovereignty of the Iranian Nation (1986–1990) Front for Democracy and Human Rights (2005) Splinter groups. People's Mujahedin of Iran (1965) Council of Nationalist-Religious Activists of Iran (2000)
The Islamic revolution is thought to have a significantly worse human rights record than the Pahlavi dynasty it overthrew. According to political historian Ervand Abrahamian, "whereas less than 100 political prisoners had been executed between 1971 and 1979, more than 7900 were executed between 1981 and 1985. ... the prison system was centralized and drastically expanded ...
One of Iran's most prominent human rights activists, Mohammadi, 51, worked as an engineer and a columnist for various newspapers following her studies. She was first arrested in 2011 for assisting ...
The European Parliament on Tuesday remembered a young woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, during a ceremony at which she and a Iranian human rights group were officially awarded ...
In 1975 the human rights group Amnesty International — whose membership and international influence grew greatly during the 1970s [38] — issued a report on treatment of political prisoners in Iran that was "extensively covered in the European and American Press". [39]