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January 26, 2012

Podcast 46: Iran’s Assault on Free Speech in an Interview with Mehrad Vaezinejad and Niousha Masoumi

What does the recent increase in the arrests of journalists in Iran have to do with the upcoming parliamentary elections in Iran? Mehrad Vaezinejad, a Middle East analyst based in London, explains that the two are actually related. We also speak with Niousha Masoumi, a ...

January 25, 2012

Supreme Court Says “Do-over” in Death Sentence Case

55-year-old prisoner Javad Lari’s death sentence has been overturned and sent back to the lower court. Mr. Lari’s lawyer, Manijeh Mohammadi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that there is no evidence of moharabeh (enmity with God), her client’s charge that led ...

January 24, 2012

Censorship and Satellite Jamming

News segment on Voice of America on the illegal telecommunications practices of Iran. ...

January 23, 2012

Rally Against Censorship and Satellite Jamming at World Radiocommunication Conference

Today, Iranian protestors gathered in Geneva, demanding the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN agency, to take action on the Iranian government’s illegal internet and communications censorship. Coinciding with the start of the regulatory meeting of the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) in Geneva, and organized ...

January 22, 2012

International Body Should End Iran’s Illegal Satellite Jamming

Call to Action to Stop Widespread Censorship Activists Launching Protest at Geneva Gathering of World Radiocommunication Conference (23 January 2012) The World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC), the UN regulatory gathering opening today in Geneva, should take decisive steps to end the Iranian government’s illegal and widespread jamming of ...

January 19, 2012

Widespread Targeting of Journalists Continues with Three Arrests

With only six weeks until the Iranian parliamentary election, security officials have cast a wider net in the capital with the arrest of three journalists. Journalists Parastoo Dokouhaki, Marzieh Rassouli and Sahamoddin Bouraghani are the latest in a series of arrests, following the other ...

January 18, 2012

Angels Of Iran: Education Under Fire Releases Video SeriesAngels Of Iran: Education Under Fire Releases Video Series

The Education Under Fire initiative, in coordination with a coalition of human rights organizations focusing on Iran, has announced the release of seven new “Angels of Iran” videos. These short films are personal stories of courage and resilience in the face of torture, imprisonment, and ...

January 17, 2012

Human Rights Lawyer Seifzadeh Refused to Participate in Own Trial Due To Revolutionary Court’s Incompetence

Mohammad Seifzadeh, prominent lawyer and one of the founding members of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, did not participate in his court trial on 11 January 2012, his wife and lawyer Fatemeh Golzar told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

January 12, 2012

Assassinations and Threats of Military Action Portend Serious Violence

(12 January 2012) TheInternational Campaign for Human Rights in Irantoday strongly condemned the assassination of an Iranian scientist in Tehran. The Campaign expressed its serious concern at an increasing climate of violence relating to Iran’s nuclear crisis, compounded by recent statements by Israeli officials and ...

January 11, 2012

Podcast 45: “Campaign 99” in an interview with Ali Abdi

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve no doubt heard of the Occupy Wall Street movement, brought together under the banner of ‘the 99%’. Today, we talk to Ali Abdi, Iranian student rights and LGBT activist, about “Campaign 99.” Campaign 99 is a global solidarity ...

January 11, 2012

Political Prisoner Issa Saharkhiz Hospitalized in Tehran

Journalist and political activist Issa Saharkhiz has been at Imam Khomeini Hospital in Tehran since 14 December 2011, a source close to his family told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The source added that the political prisoner’s family is under immense pressure ...

January 11, 2012

Iranian Judiciary Should Dismiss Ministry Order Against House of Cinema

(11 January 2012) The Iranian Judiciary should withdraw the Ministry of Culture order to shut down House of Cinema, the country’s leading independent film association, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Authorities should end the unlawful attacks on independent civil society ...

January 10, 2012

Malaysian Security Officers Threaten to Deport Iranian Refugee and Activist

On 10 January 2011, Malaysian security officers allegedly threatened to deport refugee and activist journalist Ali Hosseinpoor Jamshidi back to Iran. Jamshidi is a coordinator of and contributor to several online pro-Green Movement news outlets and a host on the satellite station Rasa TV. Jamshidi told ...

January 10, 2012

Former Foreign Minister Ebrahim Yazdi Sentenced to Eight Years In Prison

Following an eight-year prison sentence for political activist and head of the Iran Freedom Movement Ebrahim Yazdi, his son-in-law Mehdi Nourbakhsh called the ruling cruel in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

January 9, 2012

Iranian Judiciary Must Reverse American Citizen’s Death Sentence

(9 January 2012) The Iranian judiciary should immediately rescind the death sentence in the appeals court issued for Iranian-American citizen Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. In addition, the judiciary should provide a fair trial with full access ...

January 9, 2012

Who is Amir Hekmati?

Radio interview with Hadi Ghaemi about imprisoned Iranian-American Amir Hekmati. ...

January 6, 2012

Podcast 44: Iranian Refugees in an interview with Faraz Sanei

The idea of ‘being a refugee’ can evoke many different images in people’s minds. Refugees from Iran are perhaps not what one may immediately think of as ‘typical’. To start with, there’s a relatively wide range of reasons behind people’s decision to flee – ...

January 6, 2012

Iranian-American Prisoner’s Family: TV Confessions Fake And Under Duress

Family of Amir Hekmati, an Iranian-American man whom Iranian officials allege worked for the CIA, and whose court session and confessions were broadcasted on Iranian state TV on 27 December 2011, have released a statement, a copy of which was shared with the International Campaign ...

January 6, 2012

Civil Society Activist Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison and €550,000 in Fines

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has learned that former Allameh Tabatabaee faculty member and head of Volunteer Actors Institute Sohrab Razzaghi has been tried in absentia and sentenced to 20 years in prison and €550,000 ($760,705) in fines. ...

January 6, 2012

Podcast 44: Iranian Refugees in an interview with Faraz Sanei

The idea of ‘being a refugee’ can evoke many different images in people’s minds. Refugees from Iran are perhaps not what one may immediately think of as ‘typical’. To start with, there’s a relatively wide range of reasons behind people’s decision to flee – ...

January 5, 2012

“Dezfool Prison Inmates Are Treated Like Animals”

A local source in Ahvaz told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Saeed Saki, a political prisoner and an Ahvaz Arab activist who was previously held in Karoon Prison of Ahvaz, was transferred to Dezfool prison two months ago. According to the ...

January 5, 2012

“Police Should End Coverup And Release Recording,” Says Brother of Deceased Activist

The brother of Haleh Sahabi, who lost her life on 1 June 2011 following interference by security forces during her father’s funeral, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he continues to pursue his complaint with Iranian authorities to identify those involved ...

January 5, 2012

Iran’s Secret Hangings: Mass Unannounced Executions in Mashhad’s Vakilabad Prison

Since January 2010, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has published dozens of reports of unannounced secret group executions at Vakilabad Prison in the northeast city of Mashhad. These executions were largely in violation of international human rights law and domestic procedures. Judicial ...

January 2, 2012

Secret Executions: Findings Challenge Judiciary’s False Narrative

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran published the first public list of 101 victims of secret group executions in Vakilabad Prison today. The Campaign called on the Iranian Parliament and judiciary to immediately institute a moratorium on executions and to move swiftly to ...

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