Civil Courage Prize (2004) Martin Ennals Award (2009)
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Emadeddin Baghi (born 25 April 1962[1]) is an Iranian Journalist, human rights activist, prisoners' rights advocate, investigative journalist, theologian and writer. He is the founder and head of the Committee for the Defense of Prisoners' Rights and the Society of Right to Life Guardians in Iran, and the author of twenty books, six of which have been banned in Iran. Baghi was imprisoned in connection with his writings on the Chain Murders of Iran, which occurred in Autumn 1998,[2] and imprisoned again in late 2007 for another year on charges of "acting against national security." According to his family and lawyers, Baghi has been summoned to court 23 times since his release in 2003.[2] He has also had his passport confiscated, his newspaper closed, and suspended prison sentences passed against his wife and daughter.[3] Baghi was rearrested on 28 December 2009 on charges related to an interview with Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri. Baghi was released and then again rearrested on 5 December 2010.
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^ ab"Iran: Release Leading Defender of Prisoners' Rights". Human Rights Watch. 16 October 2007. Archived from the original on 18 February 2009. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
^"Prominent Iranian Human Rights Defender Emaddedin Baghi Detained". Amnesty International. Archived from the original on 28 June 2009. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
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state sponsored demonstrations in every city. Some sources (such as EmadeddinBaghi, a researcher at the Martyrs Foundation) claim 2,781 protesters and...
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competition and also the president's statements about the Holocaust. EmadeddinBaghi, a member of the religious-intellectuals circle, Ebrahim Yazdi, the...
brought in to crush the revolution. Post-revolutionary accounting by EmadeddinBaghi, of the government Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs, found...
the second anniversary of their death." Investigative journalists EmadeddinBaghi and Akbar Ganji both wrote investigative news articles on the murders...
verdict was published, and it raised a wave of unrest in social media. EmadeddinBaghi, on his personal Twitter account, stated that: As someone who has been...
served as foreign minister of Iran, and the human rights campaigner EmadeddinBaghi. Seyed Ali Mousavi's body was confiscated from his family in an attempt...
by the US-based Train Foundation, sharing it with Iranian activist EmadeddinBaghi. He was unable to attend the ceremony due to the proposing banning...
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