Victims of Iran’s November 2019 Bloodshed Denied Justice
Event Information
About this event
To mark the one year anniversary of the bloody crackdown of nationwide protests in Iran, ARTICLE19, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are holding an expert panel on Tuesday 17 November 2020. The event intends to shed light on the gross and multifaceted violations of human rights committed by state forces and to discuss the mechanisms urgently needed to hold those responsible into account.
We invite you to register to attend on Eventbrite. We will notify all registered guests closer to the date of the Zoom link where they can join our discussion. We will also notify participants of livestream options that will be available on ARTICLE19's social media channels closer to the date.
Join the conversation and ask the panelists questions on social media using the hashtag #Iran1YAfter
Panelists:
Dr. Agnes Callamard is the Director of Columbia Global Freedom of Expression at Columbia University and the U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (2016-2022). She lectures on free speech and human rights in Europe and North America. She has led human rights investigations in more than 30 countries, and has investigated murders of journalists, including that of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. She directed the global freedom of expression organization ARTICLE 19 for nine years, and was Chef de Cabinet for the Secretary General of Amnesty International.
Mahsa Alimardani is an Internet researcher with a focus on technology and human rights. She has worked on issues related to access to the Internet for the past eight years, developing advocacy, educational and research projects within civil society and academia. She’s also a PhD researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, examining the issue of political communications online in Iran, and was a Senior Information Control Fellow for the Open Technology Fund and a Resident at the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights, at the University of Oxford. She currently leads ARTICLE19’s research on access to the Internet in Iran.
Raha Bahreini is an Iranian-Canadian human rights lawyer with an expertise in international human rights law. She works as Amnesty International’s researcher on Iran. Before that, she assisted the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran. Bahreini’s work has engaged with a wide range of human rights issues including the death penalty, freedom of expression, association and assembly, torture, women’s rights, discrimination against minorities, gender identity and sexual orientation rights, and transitional justice.
Tara Sepehri Far is a researcher in the Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch, where she investigates human rights abuses in Iran and Kuwait. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, she was the Deputy Director of the Human Rights in Iran Unit at the City University New York, where she worked on a project supporting the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran. Tara graduated from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran and holds M.A. and LL.M degrees in international law from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She is a native Farsi speaker.
Moderator:
Bahar Saba is a human rights researcher currently leading ARTICLE 19’s transparency work on Iran. Prior to joining ARTICLE 19, she was a researcher at Amnesty International, where she worked on a wide range of human rights issues including the death penalty, torture, freedom of expression, association and assembly, and discrimination against minorities, as well as a Caseworker at Reprieve, where she focused on the death penalty in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE. She holds an LLB, an LLM in human rights law and an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies.
IMPORTANT SECURITY PROTOCOLS:
We understand there may be certain safety risks for joining a public human rights event such as this. We want to ensure no attendee places themselves under unnecessary risk. If you are joining through Zoom, please ensure your screen name remains anonymous if you deem it necessary for your security.
We will ensure attendees do not appear within any public view. You will be able to submit your questions via the Q&A function of the Webinar which will be reviewed and brought up by the moderator during the Q&A section. This event will be recorded and publicly available afterwards
We also have a Facebook live option for joining, and we encourage participants in regions with barriers to Zoom to watch the event on our Facebook page. We encourage participants who will not be directly joining through Zoom to ask questions using the hashtag #Iran1YAfter which will be sent to the moderator for the Q&A section.
Organizer ARTICLE19
Organizer of Victims of Iran’s November 2019 Bloodshed Denied Justice