The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran interviewed Silva Harotonian who shared a cell with Shirin Alamhooli for several months at Evin Prison’s General Ward and Ward 209. She told the Campaign that she learned about life from Shirin and is shocked by news ...
Kurdane website reported the arrest of Jalal Aghvami, Spokesperson for the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan. His family said that they did not know his whereabouts for several hours on Thursday until it finally turned out that he had been arrested. They were ...
Security forces have been putting immense pressure on the family of executed prisoner, Shirin Alam Hooli, several sources report. The Change for Equality website reports that security forces have set up a post near Alam Hooli’s home, preventing people who show up to pay ...
Shortly after Iran announced that it had executed five Kurdish political activists on Sunday, I received an e-mail from a human rights campaigner in Tehran who knew one of them, asking me to spread the word about the hangings. “We are truly helpless,” she wrote, “and ...
A Tehran University student activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that there is a lot of sadness about the executions among many students. The students believe that the executions happened under very unfair and questionnable conditions. ...
Farzad Kamangar was one of the five people executed at Tehran’s Evin Prison last Sunday. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, his lawyer, Khalil Bahramian emphasized that his client was innocent. “The gentlemen do not have a shred ...
(9 May 2010) The sudden execution of five Iranian political prisoners today appears to signal a government policy of relying on politically-motivated executions to strengthen its position vis-à-vis its opposition through terror and intimidation, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said. The Campaign ...
Today a human rights activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Mohammad Davari has twice gone on temporary hunger strikes in prison. Yet, this source said, Mohammad Davari is still being subjected to mistreatment, and physical and psychological abuse with the ...
Prominent Iranian journalist Ahmad Zeidabadi has been in prison since the Iranian elections. His wife, Mahdieh Mohammadi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she is concerned about her husband’s health. Mr. Zeidabadi is serving time under very difficult conditions among dangerous ...
Mehrangiz Kar writes of the peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa. ...
A human rights activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that on 12 May several members of Mashad teachers’ unions went on a hunger strike to protest the continued detention of a Mashad teacher, Hashem Khastar. While on their hunger strike, ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Ali Kantoori, talks about the hygienic and medical conditions of Evin prison. The human rights activist, who was detained for several months in security wards of Evin Prison and Ghezel Hessar Prison, shares ...
Travel bans for Hassan Asadi Zeidabadi, Human Rights Secretary for Advar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat alumni organization, continue unexplained. In an interview with Advar News, Zeidabadi said: “I planned a trip to Geneva for a short academic training course on organizations that provide oversight to UN international ...
Rahmatollah Bastani, a 51-year-old professor at Sistan and Baluchistan University was dismissed from his position. Bastani taught theology and Qoranic Studies for 21 years. He was arrested in Qom on 28 March during a funeral ceremony for Ayatollah Montazeri’s wife, and was imprisoned ...
Iran’s election came at a time when many women’s rights activists and their international supporters issued a protest statement addressed to ECOSOC. They called the news of Iran’s candidacy confirmation “shocking,” and asked Council members to oppose Iran’s request and to make Iran’s presence ...
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(30 April 2010) The hasty and secretive confirmation of execution sentences for post-election protestors by Iranian appeals courts is a flagrant violation of international standards of due process and justice, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Nasim Ghanavi, a lawyer in Tehran, ...
Student sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the trial court of Eftekhar Barzegarian, a student activist at Mashad’s Ferdowsi University will be held on 2 May, 2010, with Judge Kavoosi presiding. According to a source close to Barzegarian, he ...
(30 April 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran today urged Iranian authorities to respect the rights of trade union activists and teachers to participate in International Workers Day (1 May) and National Teachers Day (2 May) observations, and expressed deep concern about ...
A political prisoner, released and tried in the past few months, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that even though he served four months in prison, was interrogated for over 300 hours, and has a case file containing some 400 pages of ...
Shiva Nazar Ahari, a human rights activist and member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, has spent more than 120 days in prison. She was arrested for the second time in one year on 20 December 2009. Previously, she spent 102 days in ...
27 April 2010 Your Excellencies, The news of the Iranian government’s candidacy for membership in ECOSOC’s Commission on Status of Women (CSW) has disturbed women’s rights activists worldwide. According to the available information, ECOSOC members will vote on Iran’s candidacy for a vacant seat from the Asia ...
(26 April 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expressed serious concern today regarding the issuance of death sentences for post-election protestors in Iran. The Campaign released a short video aimed at raising international awareness about such politically motivated executions, which can be viewed ...
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Over the past few months, several lawyers who represent political prisoners have expressed concern over the Iranian Judiciary’s lack of impartiality, as well as the widespread influence of Ministry of Intelligence and IRGC’s Intelligence Unit in the Judiciary’s decision-making processes. In an interview with ...
