Following news that security forces stole Narges Mohammadi’s medical records, she spoke the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about her concerns after being informed of the news. “They contacted me from the hospital and told me that security forces have visited my medical ...
This briefing paper provides a review of the “house arrest,” or detention in a “safe house,” of other prominent critics of the Islamic Republic during the past three decades. This history indicates that the majority of prominent persons thus detained were subjected to physical and ...
Despite Larijani’s assertions, authorities routinely suppress free speech, undermine press freedom, and punish public criticism of the government and high-ranking state officials. Dozens of newspapers and websites have been banned and scores of Iranian journalists and bloggers have been arrested since June 2009, mostly after ...
Mass Post-Election Detainees Nobody is jailed because of the protest. The only reason for jailing is the violence which was attached with the protests, a violence which got the life of more than 20 policemen and 13 civilians and, also, damage to ...
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has collected dozens of eyewitness and personal accounts of torture carried out by the Iranian government. Security forces reportedly resorted to torture during interrogations of detainees carried out after the post-election protests to coerce confessions. These confessions ...
As of December 2010, Iran has been engaged in an execution binge. In December 2010 authorities executed 48 people. In January 2011, official media reported 85 executions, averaging one execution every 9 hours. If rates continue, Iran will execute over 900 persons by the end ...
Contrary to Larijani’s public statements, Iran has not allowed any visits from Special Rapporteurs since 2005, despite numerous and repeated requests for visas. ...
Two years after the disputed presidential election of 2009, the human rights situation in Iran continues to deteriorate. The country has become enveloped in a profound human rights crisis marked by systematic violations of both international law and the rights protected by Iran’s own constitution. ...
Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate and Director of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, has called on Iranians to hold public rallies on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 8 March, demanding reform of constitutional laws to achieve gender equality. She described her ...
(3 March 2011) Iranian officials should immediately end the illegal, incommunicado detention of four leading opposition figures: Mehdi Karroubi; Mir Hossein Mousavi; Fatemeh Karroubi; and Zahra Rahnavard, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The Campaign warns that the incommunicado nature of their ...
An eyewitness who participated in the 1 March protests in Tehran shared details about his experience with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. He reported the presence of 14 to 16-year-old forces who carried police equipment, used BB guns and tear gas, and ...
Following news that student activist Zia Nabavi was transferred from Ahvaz Prison to an unknown location by security forces, his father, Seyed Ali Akbar Nabavi, expressed concern about the lack of information he has about his son. “Just last week, I heard the news about ...
Oped by Parvin Ardalan and Hadi Ghaemi published in Brazilian newspaper, Estado de Sao Paulo. ...
(26 February 2011) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for the immediate release of Zahra Rahnavard, Fatemeh Karroubi, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi who have been removed to an unknown location—reportedly a “safe house”– from their homes. Under ...
As contradictory news about the house arrest or imprisonment of the two Iranian opposition leaders, Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, is reported and circulated, an informed source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the two political dissidents are no longer ...
"Their lights were out last night. There are no security forces on their street. They have been transferred," Says Neighbor of Karroubi Contrary to news from Tehran that opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi was under house arrest inside his home, a neighbor of Karroubi's told the International ...
The house arrest of prominent opposition figures Mir-Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, after members of parliament called for their execution and judicial authorities have not indicted or summoned them to appear in court, is another declining step for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s judiciary. Over ...
This is the “Weekly Rights Podcast.” A review of major human rights issues by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. It’s February 23rd and this is our 23rd weekly podcast: The government of Iran has once again denied its people permission to protest ...
(24 February 2011) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomed the addition of two Iranian officials by the United States government today to its list of human rights offenders, as well as reports that six European Union (EU) member states have called for ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, Shirin Ebadi, criticized the Iranian government’s refusal to issue permits for peaceful demonstrations and said that authorities from Iran’s Interior ...
Amidst Iran’s deepening crisis, officials are doing all they can to prevent outside scrutiny of human rights conditions in the country, while proclaiming to respect their international obligations. Mohammad-Javad Larijani, head of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, along with other officials representing Iran abroad, ...
Shadi Sadr, an Iranian human rights lawyer, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that at least three people who participated in the 14 February protests have expressed that the tear gas used against the protesters was different from the ones used previously. ...
Today, 20 February 2011, an eyewitness student activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that tens-of-thousands of protestors in Tehran marching in the rain and security forces where out in significantly large numbers. On occasion, they used tear gas and arrested demonstrators. ...
Reza Khandan, husband of imprisoned Iranian lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, today told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran of disturbing developments in the human rights lawyer’s case. “Unfortunately, when we went to visit Ms. Sotoudeh in prison last week, even though we were never ...
An eye witness told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the number of police and plainclothes forces present at public protests in Tehran today was considerably larger than on 14 February. He said that in some city squares large groups of police ...
