Student activists have informed International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that an appeals court has upheld the prison sentences for eight Babol Norshirvani University student activists. According to the court document, Mohsen Barzegar, Iman Sadighi, and Nima Nahvi have received sentences of 10 months ...

Vahid Poorostad, journalist, author, and lawyer who was arrested on February 9th, as so many other journalists and political activists who were arrested before the February 11th ceremonies, might soon be released with the stipulation of bail. A source who is in contact with Poorostad’s ...

New York court has pressed charges against a man accompanying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his September 2009 trip to United Nation’s General Assembly in New York for assault in the second degree for attacking and injuring a young woman outside Ahmadinejad’s hotel. The suspect must ...

Jahanbakhsh Khanjani, former advisor to Iran’s Minister of Interior, was released on Wednesday night after spending more than eight months in prison, while according to one of the previously released prisoners, he was under pressure to confess and was constantly moved from general confinement to ...

Hengameh Shahidi, a journalist who served four months in prison this summer and was released on bail on November 1, 2009, has been arrested and transferred to Evin again. Shahidi was active in Mehdi Karroubi’s presidential elections campaign. ...

A student activist at Mashad Ferdowsi University told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that despite a petition signed by three thousand students at Mashad Ferdowsi University, requesting a reversal of the decision to deprive three students from education, the decision has been finalized. ...

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In an interview with International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a Mashad political activist has said that student activist Amir Sheibani has been arrested for the fourth time. Following the elections protests, Sheibani was arrested several times, once running away from the Ansar ...

A source close to Saeed Nour Mohammadi, a youth campaigner for Mir Hossein Mousavi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that authorities in charge of Nour Mohammadi's case refuse to let his case move forward. Nour Mohammadi was first arrested ...

In a shocking statement,  a cleric named Seyed Hamid Rohani told  the radical pro-government newspaper, Vatan-e Emrooz, that dissidents should be executed en mass. Rohani is introduced in the ...

The judge in the case of student leader Abdollah Momeni, who was arrested after the Iranian elections and has been in prison for more than eight months now, has issued an $800,000 bail order for his freedom. Bail is a cautionary measure which must maintain ...

A source close to Mahsa Jazini told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Jazini is in detention at the Dastgerd Prison of Isfahan for the past 15 days. Mahsa Jazini,a women’s rights activist and a journalist with Iran Newspaper in Isfahan, ...

A prominent non-governmental organization dedicated to defense of Iranian political prisoners, Center of Defenders of Human Rights in Iran, whose members are some of the most distinguished attorneys in the country, has sent a letter to United Nation’s High Commission on Human Rights, asking her ...

BBC Persian television station aired a video clip today which was taped by the attackers of Tehran University dormitories on June 15, 2009 during the post-elections protests. The video which has been recorded by attackers themselves clearly demonstrates that police and plainclothes forces made ...

The Iranian Judiciary's First Deputy said on Sunday that the trial court of those responsible for Kahrizak Detention Center events will be held as early as late March. Seyed Ebrahim Raeesi refrained again to provide clear information about the trial date, even though the ...

A student activist and eye witness has provided details to International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about the paramilitary forces’ attack on Mashad Azad Univesity students on December 30, 2009. He talks about arrests and sentences which have followed the incident. He says the ...

Alireza Avaee has stated that so far the judge related to Kahrizak case has not been suspended. In an interview with ISNA News Agency, when asked about the suspension of judges associated with the Kahrizak case, the Ministry of Justice's Chief Officer said ...

An informed source who is a student activist told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that over the past few days, student activist Bahareh Hedayat has been informed of 16 separate charges against her. The Tehran Prosecutor Jafari Dowlatabadi has described Bahareh Hedayat’s ...

Channel 4 News- “A former member of the Iranian basij militia tells Channel 4 News that he was jailed and mistreated for refusing to assault opposition protesters. “There was a table. I stood on that table for some hours with my hands tied and a ...

In a letter to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a journalist from Kermanshah has pointed to instances of violations of human rights in the Province, requesting better news coverage of the arrests of political activists, journalists, and students. The Campaign would ...

Morteza Semyari, Central Council member of the Office to Foster Unity (Daftar-e Tahkim Vahdat), continues to remain imprisoned in solitary confinement in Ward 240 of Evin prison. One of the student activists of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said, “While the ...

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