Nora Shourd, mother of American hiker Sarah Shourd, announced to the media yesterday that in a surprise telephone call her daughter said her health has deteriorated and that she needs immediate medical attention which is denied to her. Families of the American Prisoners in Iran ...
Mehdi Saharkhiz, son of distinguished journalist and prisoner of conscience Issa Saharkhiz, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that despite his poor health, his father’s spirits are high. About a letter written by several journalists in Rajaee Shahr Prison proposing a live debate ...
Blog/Note: Will the secret of the 1988 mass executions of political prisoners be revealed soon? Will thousands of families who lost their loved ones in the span of just a few months know who ordered the executions and who carried them out? Will those responsible ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Zoleikha Moussavi, mother of blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, discussed her son's poor prison conditions. She told the Campaign that her son has been under immense pressure in prison to participate in televised confessions. ...
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: 17 prisoners of conscience go on hunger strike to protest poor treatment, lack of health facilities, and suspension of family visits; marking the one year anniversary of their arrest, hundreds attended rallies around the world in support of the ...
Majid Dorri, a student activist, has been sentenced to exile at Izeh Prison. His brother, Mojtaba Dorri, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about his brother's exile sentence: "They never gave us his written verdict, but his sentence was initially two ...
(4 August 2010) The Iranian Judiciary should immediately release seventeen prisoners of conscience who have been on hunger strike for the past ten days and whose health is deteriorating daily, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The seventeen prisoners include prominent student ...
Mohammad Ali Haj Aghaee's death sentence on the charge of moharebeh (enmity with God) has been upheld by an appeals court in Tehran. His lawyer, Mehdi Hojjati, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, "He was accused of cooperating with the ...
Hundreds of people gathered last Saturday in several cities around the world to protest the year-long imprisonment of three young American hikers. The three individuals, who according to Iranian authorities crossed Iran's western borders, were arrested on 31 July 2009. Though they claim to have ...
His spouse and brother in law detained Mohamad Mostafaei, the Iranian lawyer of Sakineh Ashtiani who is sentenced to death by stoning, has been in an undisclosed location since Saturday. He was questioned and later the same day was summoned to the infamous Evin prison, but ...
The Iranian authorities have accused the wife and the brother in law of Mohamed Mostafaei, the lawyer for the woman sentenced to stoning for adultery, of aiding him to flee. Authorities assured them that if the lawyer is handed to them they will be released, ...
A post-election protester’s death sentence has been upheld in an appeals court in Tehran, according to his lawyer. Jafar Kazemi’s lawyer, Nasim Ghanavi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that her client’s sentence has been upheld and that Branch 31 of the ...
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: the family of human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaee is taken hostage by security forces in an attempt to force Mostafaee out of hiding; Parvin Tajik, sister of imprisoned journalist Abdolreza Tajik, tells the Campaign of her brother being “violated” ...
A family member of a political prisoner at Evin prison told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that 15 political prisoners have been moved from the prison's General Ward to solitary confinement. Among those transferred is journalist Bahman Ahmadi Amouee, who is currently ...
Shadi Sadr, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, published the following open letter regarding the case of persecuted lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaee: Honourable Chair of Iran Bar Association, Honourable members of the management committee, You are aware that on Saturday 2nd Mordad 1389 (24th July 2010) the security ...
The nine year prison sentence for student activist Bahareh Hedayat was recently upheld by an appeals court in Tehran. Hedayat is a member of the Central Council and spokesperson of the Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat student organization. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human ...
(27 July 2010) Iranian authorities should end their efforts to arrest Mohammad Mostafaee, a human rights lawyer whose work came into international focus with his defense of Sakineh Ashtiani, a woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery, the International Campaign for Human Rights ...
Nasim Ghanavi, lawyer for Kefayat Malek Mohammadi, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about the latest situation in the case of her client, who was arrested with her husband during last year’s Ashura protests (27 December 2009). “My client was ...
Following the disappearance of political activist Hoda Saber, his wife, Fahimeh Jamshidi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that her husband’s disappearance cannot be without reason. Jamshidi added that her husband, who is a distinguished political figure, has been under pressure ...
Fereshteh Halimi, the wife of Mohammad Mostafaee, an Iranian human rights lawyer, was arrested yesterday near his office according to a colleague of Mostafaee’s. She had gone to pick up her husband’s car which was parked near his office. The Committee for Human Rights Reporters’ ...
Several weeks after the arrest of journalist Abdolreza Tajik and his family’s inability to find any information about him, Tajik’s sister said she met with him on Thursday, 15 July 2010. Parvin Tajik told the BBC that during the visit with her brother he said ...
Khajeh Garashi “Vafa Ali,” a guru from the Gonabadi Nematollahi order, was recently summoned by the Lar Township Information Office. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Davood Montazeri, Garashi’s lawyer described how the Gonabadi guru was summoned. “In this ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, the attorney of prominent Iranian journalist Issa Saharkhiz’s expressed outrage over Saharkhiz’s appearance in court with handcuffs and shackles. “Such treatment is most inappropriate for a prominent journalist such as Mr. Saharkhiz who ...
Student activist Zia Nabavi’s lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that despite her client’s denial of relations with the Mojahedin-E Khalgh Organization (MEK) and a lack of evidence in this regard, the appeals court upheld his ten-year imprisonment ...
Mohammad Seifzadeh, the lawyer who represents Massoumeh Yavari, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he hopes his client is acquitted of her charges. Seifzadeh, a founding member of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, said that he has appealed the lower ...
