Speaking at the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s School of International Relations on August 30, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, ”I have urged the authorities during my visit this time to release opposition leaders, human rights defenders, journalists and social activists to create the conditions for free ...
(August 30, 2012) In a letter sent to Iranian officials, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran urged Iranian authorities to revise the Border Closure Plan immediately to prioritize the life and well-being of the residents of Iran’s border regions. The Campaign also urged ...
Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand, a prisoner of conscience who ended his 60-day wet hunger strike on July 27, told his family during his visit with them on August 27 that if the authorities do not address his requests, he will start a hunger strike and will ...
The Islamic Republic of Iran has had a contentious relationship with the UN in recent years. While Iran has experienced increased international isolation for its nuclear and foreign policies, the UN has repeatedly passed resolutions condemning Iran’s nuclear policies and human rights violations. In addition, ...
Two days after police and plainclothes forces attacked the earthquake relief camp and arrested 35 relief workers on Thursday, August 23, ten detainees (all of the female and three of the male detainees) were released on bail. The rest of the relief workers were transferred ...
In the early hours of August 23, 2012, security and Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) forces attacked a relief camp set up to help earthquake victims in Eastern Azerbaijan. Thirty-five volunteer students and relief workers who had gathered to help the victims of the August 11 earthquakes ...
Sixty-one political prisoners were released in the evening hours of August 15, and several more have received reductions in their prison term or reduced punishment. However, dozens of other political prisoners continue to be denied even one day of furlough. Most of the prisoners who ...
At midnight on August 23, security and IRGC forces attacked a relief camp set up to help earthquake victims in Eastern Azerbaijan. Thirty five volunteer students and relief workers who had gathered to help the earthquake victims at the camp, located on the road between ...
“Zanyar Moradi suffered severe torture after his arrest and was put under pressure to provide fake confessions. In an open letter, he spoke of torture by Intelligence Ministry interrogators. He suffers from severe back ache brought on by torture, and is also suffering from testicular ...
Omid Kokabi, 30, is a scientist who graduated from Tehran’s Sharif University. At the time of his arrest at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport as he intended to board a flight, he was a post-doctoral student at University of Texas at Austin. Kokabi was kept in ...
The Christian pastor’s earlier charges were “apostasy” and “converting to Christianity,” but the new charges of “banditry and extortion” were first mentioned last year on Fars News Agency. A source close to the case of Youcef Nadarkhani who wishes to remain anonymous on security grounds ...
Most of the prisoners who were released had already served half of their sentences. Iranian law stipulates that inmates who have served half of their prison term may be released conditionally. A considerable number of political prisoners remaining inside Evin Prison and other facilities have ...
On Saturday, August 11, 2012, two earthquakes struck East Azerbaijan province in northwestern Iran. At least 300 people were killed, many more injured, and there was widespread destruction of buildings in villages throughout the province. Meanwhile, Iranian state-run television news did not report the earthquakes ...
Massoud Shafiee, the lawyer who represented the three Americans who were released after more than a year in an Iranian prison, said in an exclusive interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that since his clients left Iran he has been repeatedly ...
According to research, conducted by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, there are currently at least 28 Kurdish prisoners sentenced to death on political and security-related charges inside Sanandaj, Orumiyeh, Semnan, Rajaee Shahr, and Saghez prisons. Seventeen of these individuals have received finalized ...
As part of what appears to be a new round of pressure on the families of prisoners of conscience in Iran, authorities have begun issuing rulings against their descendants. Recently, lawyer and prisoner of conscience Nasrin Sotoudeh’s 12-year-old daughter Mehraveh received a ruling banning her ...
Massoud Shafiee, the lawyer who represented the three Americans who were released after more than a year in an Iranian prison, said in an exclusive interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that since his clients left Iran he has been repeatedly ...
“Narges’ illness is muscle paralysis, but they first transferred her to Zanjan Hospital’s Neurology Department. Two days ago, they transferred her to another hospital, to Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Zanjan, where she has been hospitalized in their Neurology Department. These are all sources of concern ...
Farideh Honarvar Shojayee told the Campaign she that during her booth visit with her son on June 30, “Arash’s health was very bad. Though they have been giving him his medicine, more or less, for the last few days, but he is not well yet. ...
For more than three decades, Javad Larijani has held high positions within the Iranian government in which he has categorically denied well-documented human rights abuses, positions which have brought him immeasurable power and raised questions about his wealth. On July 8, 2012, Larijani publicly denied ...
(July 12, 2012) Iranian officials should cease spreading lies and disinformation about the existence of political prisoners as they are simultaneously imprisoning hundreds for exercising their legal rights, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The Judiciary should also immediately release all ...
A security court in Tehran has ruled to ban foreign travel for human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, and her daughter, Mehraveh Khandan, 13. Reza and Mehraveh Khandan each received a ruling and summons notice from Branch Two of Tehran’s Shahid Moghaddas Court, ...
Arash Honarvar Shojayee, a dissident blogger and cleric, returned to Evin Prison on Saturday, June 30, after his furlough leave ended. Hours before returning to prison, in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, he said that he will be put ...
Yashar Khameneh, known in the cyber world as “Naghi Pajooh” for his contributions to the Facebook page “Campaign to Remind the Shias of Imam Naghi,” told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his father, who was arrested because of his son’s activities, ...
The stories of sweeping reform across the Middle East has captured the attention of many of us. In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast, Minky Worden, Director of Global Initiatives at Human Rights Watch, talks to the Campaign about the effect that Arab Spring has had, ...
