Authorities have not accepted any requests for exiled political prisoner Zia Nabavi’s furlough nor for his transfer to another prison, his father Ali Akbar Nabavi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...
Mohammad Davari, former editor-in-chief of Saham News website, has developed acute psychological illness in prison and is in critical condition, his brother Bijan Davari told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran in an interview. “Mohammad is not well at all. Besides psychological problems, ...
A source close to Habibollah Golparipour, a Kurdish political prisoner on death row, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his family is concerned about his imminent execution. “Yesterday, 15 March [2012], the prison guards called him to take a phone call, ...
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, along with 20 global human rights organizations, signed a letter in support of the mandate extension for the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmad Shaheed. The letter calls ...
Imprisoned teacher Abdolreza Ghanbari’s pardon request has been denied by the Pardon Commission of Tehran Province Judiciary, a source close to his family told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. With the rejection of his pardon request, once the head of the Judiciary ...
In March 2011, in response to escalating violations of international law and Iran’s ongoing non-cooperation with UN human rights mechanisms, the United Nations Human Rights Council mandated a Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. ...
Iranian Delegate Responds Angrily Without Addressing Report's Content Head of Iran's Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad ...
RECOMMENDATIONS To the Human Rights Council and UN Member States: Support and renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for human rights in Iran. Urge Iran to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur and with human rights mechanisms. Call on Iran to ...
The Deteriorating Human Rights Situation in Iran Requires a Special Rapporteur Iranian authorities increasingly disregard human rights standards, arbitrarily imprisoning human rights defenders, journalists, political activists, and trade unionists. The number of executions has skyrocketed. Officials routinely use torture to extract false confessions, and a deeply ...
Almost three years since the disputed presidential elections of 2009, the situation of human rights in Iran continues to deteriorate. In March 2011, increased international concern about Iran’s human rights crisis led to the creation of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights ...
A Tehran Appeals Court upheld the six-month prison sentence for Faezeh Hashemi, former Member of Parliament and editor-in-chief of the banned newspaper Zan, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. In addition to her prison sentence, Hashemi has also been banned ...
Expressing grave concern about her brother’s conditions, Maryam Malekpour told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that her family has had no news about her brother Saeed Malekpour, whose death sentence was forwarded to the Iranian Judiciary’s Sentence Enforcement Unit in February 2012. ...
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran today welcomed the comprehensive report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, as a significant document that gives voice to the victims of widespread violations. ...
Branch 26 of Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced lawyer and co-founder of Center for Human Rights Defenders Abdolfattah Soltani to 18 years in Borazjan Prison and a 20-year ban on his legal practice yesterday. Massoumeh Dehghan, Abdolfattah Soltani’s wife, confirmed the news in an interview with ...
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has released a short video highlighting the plight of Iranian cinema. The video, “Iranian Cinema Under Siege” features Richard Peña, the director of the New York Film Festival, and Hamid Dabashi, professor at Columbia University, who discuss ...
Imprisoned Kurdish activist Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand is in critical condition after embarking on a hunger strike over two weeks ago, his wife told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...
Political prisoners inside Babol’s Mati Kola Prison have been asked to write letters asking for pardon, the daughter of Ali Akbar Soroush, an imprisoned member of the reformist Participation Front’s Central Council, said in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...
Most of us remember President Ahmadinejad’s infamous 2007 comment that homosexuals do not exist in Iran. In this Weekly Rights Podcast, we talk to Hossein Alizadeh, the Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. Hossein talks ...
Over the last few days, authorities in a women’s dormitory inside Allameh Tabatabaee University in Tehran have stormed and searched student residences several times, a human rights source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. According to the source, authorities confiscated a student’s ...
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At a moment when millions of people — including many Iranians — were watching to see what Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi would say in his Oscar acceptance speech, Farhadi chose to talk about the concerns of the Iranian people and “the dust of politics” that ...
A local human rights source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that there has been no information about the fate of Hossein Kamangar since his secretive detention. Hossein Kamangar, a resident of Kamyaran and relative of executed Kurdish teacher Farzad Kamangar, had ...
Iran’s new penal code was finally approved by the Guardian Council, a body of clerics and lawyers in charge of approving legislation, in February 2012. Once the new penal code is signed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and published in the official gazette, it will officially ...
“A Father’s Voice: The Soheila Afnani Story,” from the Angels of Iran series, tells the story of Soheila Afnani and her father Nusratullah Subhani, a local Baha’i leader who was executed 5 March 1985. The day before he was killed, Subhani wrote to his wife ...
Today marks the 58th anniversary of the Iranian Bar Association’s independence. In February 1954, after a tireless campaign by some prominent lawyers, Iran’s legislators passed a law recognizing the independence of the Bar. This victory was in part meant to allow lawyers to defend the ...
