Diane Sawyer of ABC’s ‘World News Tonight’ Interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad December 22, 2009 DIANE SAWYER: The three American hikers who say they accidentally wandered into Iranian territory while looking at waterfalls, Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, and Sarah Shourd. You said you were going to ...
Next: Iranian Officials’ Claims on Rights Issues: Myths vs. Facts Executions and Stoning Since last year’s disputed Presidential election, the Iranian government has instituted a hyped-up campaign of executions, virtually all of which have followed unfair trials. Amnesty International estimates that Iran executed ...
Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Larry King - CNN September 26, 2009 KING: Your country has, you’ve said, rather, that 40 million people participated in the June elections. Iran uses paper ballots. They’re hand counted. Yet the Interior Ministry announced the official results less than 24 hours ...
Katie Couric’s Interview with Ahmadinejad - CBS Evening News September 29, 2009 Couric: During and after the presidential election, Mr. President, thousands of opposition supporters and journalists were arrested, badly beaten, and tortured. One woman, 27 year old Neda, as you know, was shot to ...
Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Channel 4 of England’s December 23, 2009 JON SNOW: There have been disturbances there has been awful scenes of violence on the streets and that has disturbed people inside and outside Iran. That makes it difficult to extend hand doesn’t it? AHMADINEJAD: We ...
Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Kim Bildsoe of Dutch TV January 8, 2010 KIM BILDSOE: There has been protestors on the street, some have called them also lately, traitors, that they don’t understand Iran. Do you think that the young people on the street, making trouble some ...
Ahmadinejad Interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s 'Good Morning America' May 4, 2010 They first spoke about relations between Obama, Secretary Clinton, and Iran and the nuclear issue. This portion was about the American hikers: STEPHANOPOULOS: Three American hikers have been imprisoned in Iran ...
Next: Appendix: Iranian Officials’ Replies to Human Rights Oriented Questions in Previous Interviews Reviewed by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran Back ...
Next: Interviewers and Human Rights Issues Discussed Back to Page 1 of Suggested Questions 8. Question on allegations of forced confessions Question: How do you respond to allegations by ...
Page 2 of Suggested Questions 1. Question on former Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi Question: Former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi has been indicted by a ...
Next: A Brief Summary of Major Human Rights Violations in Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s coming visit to New York, for the opening of the 65th session of the United Nations’ General Assembly, will be his second visit to this city since the disputed election of ...
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Next: Suggested Questions for President Ahmadinejad Quotes from Interviews “Iran is very free. It is the highest conceivable degree of freedom. We don’t have a party based system. It is a free government, very close to the people.” Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Kim Bildsoe of ...
Next: Interviewing Ahmadinejad Since 1984, the United Nations has expressed concern about human rights practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran through successive resolutions of the UN General Assembly and Commission on Human Rights. Iran has failed to abide by these UN resolutions to ...
Next: Notable Facts about Iran’s International Record and Cooperation on Human Rights Information in this section was compiled jointly with the Democracy Coalition Project ...
The Campaign has learned that the prominent human rights defender, Shiva Nazar Ahari, was freed on bail, in the amount of $500,000, on 12 September 2010. She is awaiting sentencing following her trial held on 4 September....
The wife of Moharram Chegini, one of those murdered during post-election protests, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Iranian authorities are evading paying the diya, blood money, to Chegini’s family. In response to her requests for identification of her husband’s murderer, ...
(9 September 2010) Abdollah Momeni, a prominent Iranian activist jailed since June 2009, has described being severely tortured, forced to make false confessions, and subjected to a “show trial” in a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Momeni is serving a four ...
In the Name of God Ayatollah Khamenei The Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran During one of my days in detention at Evin prison, I had the opportunity to hear a televised speech by you. You spoke of the importance of opposing injustice and the ...
With the announcement by Iranian officials that the court trial of human rights activist Shiva Nazar Ahari will be held in the coming days, Iranians abroad held rallies in a few cities worldwide, demanding her release. Shiva Nazar Ahari has been in prison for the ...
Prominent theological researcher Ahmad Ghabel has been summoned to the Revolutionary Courts of Fariman, a reliable source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. According to the source, Revolutionary Court authorities in Mashad, Ghabel’s city of residence, have disavowed knowledge of the ...
(5 September 2010) The International Campaign for Human Right in Iran called for the immediate release of prominent human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, who was arrested at Evin prison on 4 September 2010, and for all charges against her to be dropped. Sotoudeh is a ...
Mehdi Karroubi’s son, Hossein Karroubi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the police were afraid to confront the plainclothes forces who repeatedly attacked his father’s home during the past several days. The attackers gathered outside Mehdi Karroubi’s residence, chanted obscenities and ...
After the last session of Shiva Nazar Ahari’s trial was held in Tehran today, her mother told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that “her family is very hopeful about Shiva’s acquittal.” Shahrzad Kariman told the Campaign that she was only able to ...
(3 September 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran holds Iran’s Supreme Leader responsible for the safety of presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi and his family following attacks on Karroubi’s home by dozens of armed plainclothes forces. The attacks took place over three days ...
