On 9 October 2010, Mohammad Seifzadeh, a lawyer and one of the founders of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC), was tried at Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court on the charge of founding the organization. In an interview with the International Campaign for ...
(13 October 2010) The Iranian Parliament and Judiciary should immediately abolish cruel and inhumane punishments, such as limb amputation, stoning, and flogging, consistent with Iran’s international obligations, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. In recent days Iranian officials have acknowledged that amputations ...
Following long-term prison sentences for political and social activists, this week the Revolutionary Courts sentenced blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki to 15 years in prison. Ronaghi was arrested on 13 December 2009 and transferred to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp’s Ward 2-A inside Evin prison. Reports ...
Following publication of news about Nasrin Sotoudeh’s hunger strike in prison and her interrogations under duress, Shirin Ebadi, head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she is appealing to the world to object ...
Following remarks by Head of the Judiciary Sadegh Larijani, who recently stated, “those who were arrested post-elections and are currently in prison, have committed criminal acts,” Mahsa Amrabadi, wife of imprisoned journalist Massoud Bastani, has challenged Larijani contesting the claim that journalists are criminals despite ...
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi speaks out over the recent decision by Nokia Siemens to halt sales of monitoring centers and restrict its business with Iran; journalist Issa Saharkhiz is suing Nokia Siemens in a US Court while ...
“During my interrogation, I was under duress and torture. As I point out in the enclosed defense bill, I was informed of my charges in an illegal manner. My arrest and the location where I was detained were both illegal. I was in a solitary ...
(6 October 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran today called for the immediate release of five jailed leaders of the student alumni group Advar Tahkim Vahdat, and for an investigation by both Iranian and UN authorities, recently mandated to focus on the ...
Following the sentencing of prisoner of conscience Heshmatollah Tabarzadi to nine years in prison, his son told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his father’s sentencing has taken place under the influence of intelligence and security organizations and it is illegal. ...
Following publication of a press release by Nokia Siemens Networks about the company’s halting all its activities in the area of monitoring technology with Iran, Shirin Ebadi who has had an active role in the negotiations with the company told the International Campaign for Human ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh, the imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer, has not contacted her family in the past seventeen days. Her husband, Reza Khandan, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he is worried that his wife might be under pressure in prison to ...
Massoud Shafiee, lawyer for the three imprisoned Americans told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he does not expect his clients to be acquitted. Shafiee said that he initially thought that Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer would be released on bail ...
On 22 September 2010, on the anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq war, the families of martyrs Hamid Bakeri, Mehdi Bakeri, and Mohammad Ibrahim Hammett were attacked by plainclothes forces while trying to visit the home of Mir Hossein Mousavi. The day finally ended ...
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has awarded its annual Golden Pen of Freedom to Ahmad Zeidabadi, a well-known Iranian journalist and prisoner of conscience, according to the Association’s announcement on its website. ...
Seven days after court rulings for Issa Saharkhiz and Hossein Derakhshan were served to their respective lawyers and families and news websites reported on them, Fars News Agency announced that these rulings are not definitive. According to the announced ruling, Saharkhiz, a prominent journalist and ...
A group of political activists and members of the Freedom Movement of Iran, including the group’s Secretary General, Dr. Ebrahim Yazdi, were arrested yesterday. According to Mizan News, those arrested were Ebrahim Yazdi, Hashem Sabaghian, member of the Central Council, Dr. Ali Asghar Gharavi, the ...
Jinous Sobhani, former secretary of Defenders of Human Rights Center was sentenced to two years in prison. She was convicted of “acting against national security.” A member of the Baha’i Faith, Sobhani was arrested after Ashura Day events on 3 January 2010 and ...
(1 October 2010) Nobel Peace Laureate and Iranian lawyer, Dr Shirin Ebadi, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, the International Commission of Jurists, the International Federation for Human Rights, the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights ...
A friend of student activist Zia Nabavi, who is now exiled to a prison in Ahvaz, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that during a recent telephone call Nabavi spoke about prison beatings and abuses. According to this source, the warden of ...
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, lawyer for imprisoned journalist Ali Malihi, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about his client’s upheld four-year prison sentence. “Ali Malihi is a reporter, and Article 168 of the Iranian Constitution stipulates that Press Court trials should ...
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has obtained a copy of a letter Reza Khandan, wife of lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, wrote to Tehran’s Prosecutor about Sotoudeh’s condition in prison. In the letter he also says that security organizations threatened his wife asking her ...
(30 September 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran urged governments from around the world to blacklist officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran implicated in grave human rights violations, thus recognizing their role as perpetrators in Iran’s grave human rights crisis and ...
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: Iranian-Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan is sentenced to over 19 years in prison; Nahid Kermanshahi, mother of detained journalist Hengameh Shahidi, describes the dire health condition and high bail set for her daughter; Parvin Tajik, sister of of journalist and ...
(29 September 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today that the conviction and sentencing of Iranian-Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan to 19.5 years in prison included academic connections as a basis for his charges, and should be overturned by an appeals court. The ...
Journalist Hengameh Shahidi’s mother, Nahid Kermanshahi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the $600,000 bail set for her daughter’s furlough is impossible for her family to raise leaving her daughter unable to make use of prison leave despite her critical ...
