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December 30, 2012

Cartoon 38: Perspectives: A View of 2013

As we enter the year 2013, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran celebrates the great work of thousands of human rights defenders both inside and outside the country, who have consistently shed light on Iran’s human rights abuses. This past year saw many ...

December 30, 2012

Five Kurdish Political Prisoners Face New Charges

Along with several other political prisoners, the five Kurdish men had been transferred to the Intelligence Office Detention Center on several occasions during the past year, where they ...

December 29, 2012

Lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah Suffers Memory Loss in Prison, Is Under Pressure to Confess on TV

The brother of founding member of the Defenders of Human Rights Center Mohammad Ali Dadkhah told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the prominent human rights lawyer is showing signs of impaired memory at Evin Prison, and that he is under severe ...

December 20, 2012

Cartoon 37: Intelligence Agents Harass Families

Iranian Intelligence agents have developed a pattern of targeting the local family members of political dissidents and journalists who live outside of Iran. Most recently, Iranian Intelligence Ministry agents have redoubled their harassment of BBC Persian employees’ families over the last two weeks, pressuring them ...

December 20, 2012

Stop Targeting and Harassing BBC Journalists’ Families in Iran

(December xx, 2012) The Iranian Judiciary and Intelligence agencies must immediately stop harassing the family members of journalists working abroad and ensure that security forces put an end to extrajudicial mistreatment, intimidation, and official misconduct, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

December 19, 2012

“Mapping Iran’s Human Rights” – New Interactive Project

Today the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran launched an interactive project mapping the breadth of human rights violations in different provinces throughout Iran. The project, “Mapping Iran’s Human Rights,” aims to show the main categories of human rights violations in Iran’s diverse geographical ...

December 18, 2012

Mapping Iran’s Human Rights (Interactive)

Mapping Iran’s Human Rights, an ongoing project of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, highlights and explores major human rights violations in different provinces of Iran, beyond Tehran’s borders. Given this geographical overview of human rights violations, you can monitor human rights trends, ...

December 13, 2012

Cartoon 36: Interrogators Target the Sacred Union

In a letter addressed to Sadeq Larijani, Head of the Iranian Judiciary, political prisoner Abolfazl Ghadyani asks (LINK: ) that the Intelligence Ministry stop interrogators’ “harassment and the corruption” of the families of political prisoners. The letter, published December 11 on Kaleme website, describes the ...

December 12, 2012

A Letter From Prison: Interrogator Told Wife of Political Prisoner to Divorce Husband

In a letter addressed to Sadeq Larijani, Head of the Iranian Judiciary, political prisoner Abolfazl Ghadyani asks him to stop the Intelligence Ministry interrogators’ “harassment and the corruption” of the families of political prisoners. The letter, published on Kaleme website on Tuesday, December 11, directly ...

December 11, 2012

Are Family Punishments a Coincidence? Nasrin Sotoudeh Explains Reason for Strike

Nasrin Sotoudeh, the imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer who just ended her 49-day hunger strike to protest the travel ban on her 12-year-old daughter, has written a letter addressed to the public and to human rights activists. In the letter that appeared on her husband ...

December 10, 2012

Cartoon 35: Sotoudeh the Defender

From October 17 to December 4, 2012, human rights lawyer and activist Nasrin Sotoudeh was on hunger strike to protest the foreign travel ban imposed on her 13-year-old daughter, Mehraveh. Along with her father, Reza Khandan, Mehraveh had been served papers indicating that she was ...

December 8, 2012

Cartoon 34: Judicial Independence in Iran

As Iran’s execution rate continues to skyrocket and its prisons suffer from intense overcrowding, the independence of its judiciary and legal systems is being called into question. In Evin Prison in Tehran, where most prisoners of conscience are held, there is an entire ward—Ward 209—overseen ...

December 4, 2012

Nasrin Sotoudeh Ends 49-Day Hunger Strike After Daughter’s Travel Ban Lifted

Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested on September 4, 2010. A lower court sentenced her to 11 years in prison, 20 years’ ban on her legal practice, and 20 years’ ban on foreign travel. An appeals court reduced her sentence to six years in prison and 10 ...

November 28, 2012

Iranian Government Denies Prisoner of Conscience Abdollah Momeni Family Visits

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, the wife of prisoner of conscience Abdollah Momeni said that she has been repeatedly denied visits to her husband who is imprisoned at Iran’s Evin Prison. “My children and I have not visited ...

November 28, 2012

Continued Killing of Unarmed Cross-border Couriers: 9 Killed and Injured Within 9 Days

At least nine unarmed cross-border couriers were killed or injured between October 30 and November 7, 2012, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “On the night of October 30, border security forces shot some cross-border couriers in Targehvar near ...

November 28, 2012

Sotoudeh’s Health Critical, Intelligence Says “Continue Hunger Strike to the End!”

Imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has been on a hunger strike since October 17, told her husband that her health has deteriorated to the point where she is transferred to the prison infirmary every day. In an interview with the International Campaign for ...

November 27, 2012

UN Resolution Intensifies International Pressure on Iran

(November 27, 2012) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes today’s passage of a resolution by the United Nations Third Committee of the General Assembly calling on the government of Iran to stop its massive human rights violations. ...

November 26, 2012

Anti-Censorship Film “Beyond the Electronic Curtain” to Premier in DC

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran announces the release of “Behind the Electronic Curtain,” a new documentary film by Tara Kangarlou on the crushing of free speech in Iran. The film will premier in Washington DC, where the director hopes it will have ...

November 25, 2012

Time for Brazil to Change Its UN Vote on Iran (Commentary)

(November 25, 2012) In an oped published today in the Brazilian newspaper, O Estado de São Paulo, Camila Lissa Asano and Hadi Ghaemi discuss why Brazil should change its upcoming vote from Abstention and positively support a UN General Assembly resolution on the situation of ...

November 24, 2012

Family Forced to Sign Release in the Case of Prison Interrogation Death

Gohar Eshghi, Sattar Beheshti’s mother, told the Campaign that she is requesting an in-person meeting with Sadeq Larijani, Head of the Iranian Judiciary, so that she may talk to him about the investigations into her son’s death. “I would like to ask Mr. Larijani and ...

November 23, 2012

Ahmad Zeidabadi Hospitalized After Six Months of Illness

“The cause of his illnesses has not yet been determined, but the initial diagnosis is that Ahmad is under psychological pressure and stress has led to these illnesses. He has been under stress in prison for 3.5 years, especially the first few months of his ...

November 23, 2012

Activist Abolfazl Tabarzadi Released from Detention Due to Severe Medical Condition

Student and human rights activist Abdolfazl Tabarzadi has been released after six months of imprisonment in Karoon Prison, after the medical examiner and a judge determined he is medically unfit to serve his prison term. Suffering from severe psychological problems, Tabarzadi is currently being treated ...

November 23, 2012

Cartoon 33: Respect the Oath: “Keep Them from Harm and Injustice”

Respect the Oath: "Keep Them from Harm and Injustice" After international outcry about the suspicious death of blogger Sattar Bahashti while in custody of the Iranian security forces, Iranian authorities launched an investigation into ...

November 19, 2012

Nasrin Sotoudeh in Solitary Confinement, 18 Months Without a Phone Call

“When Nasrin launched her hunger strike, our visiting days had been confirmed for Sundays, along with the other women prisoners of conscience. As she is in solitary confinement, though, they say she is banned from having visitors,” Khandan told the Campaign. “But that is totally ...

November 19, 2012

Acclaimed Iranian Filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi Speaks Out about Brother’s Arrest

"He is innocent. He is my brother. He has done ...

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