A friend of student activist Zia Nabavi, who is now exiled to a prison in Ahvaz, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that during a recent telephone call Nabavi spoke about prison beatings and abuses. According to this source, the warden of ...
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, lawyer for imprisoned journalist Ali Malihi, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about his client’s upheld four-year prison sentence. “Ali Malihi is a reporter, and Article 168 of the Iranian Constitution stipulates that Press Court trials should ...
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has obtained a copy of a letter Reza Khandan, wife of lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, wrote to Tehran’s Prosecutor about Sotoudeh’s condition in prison. In the letter he also says that security organizations threatened his wife asking her ...
(30 September 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran urged governments from around the world to blacklist officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran implicated in grave human rights violations, thus recognizing their role as perpetrators in Iran’s grave human rights crisis and ...
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: Iranian-Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan is sentenced to over 19 years in prison; Nahid Kermanshahi, mother of detained journalist Hengameh Shahidi, describes the dire health condition and high bail set for her daughter; Parvin Tajik, sister of of journalist and ...
(29 September 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today that the conviction and sentencing of Iranian-Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan to 19.5 years in prison included academic connections as a basis for his charges, and should be overturned by an appeals court. The ...
Journalist Hengameh Shahidi’s mother, Nahid Kermanshahi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the $600,000 bail set for her daughter’s furlough is impossible for her family to raise leaving her daughter unable to make use of prison leave despite her critical ...
US President Barack Obama ordered specific sanctions against certain Iranian authorities he identified as instrumental in human rights violations in Iran. In an executive order signed today, Obama listed eight individuals who have shared responsibility during post-election violence as violators of human rights. ...
Hossein Derakhshan, Iranian-Canadian blogger After months of anticipation and almost two years after his arrest and imprisonment, blogger Hossein Derakhshan was sentenced to 19.5 years ...
On 19 September 2010, it was reported that prosecutors at Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Courts, presided by Judge Abolghassem Salavati, had requested the death penalty for Hossein Derakhshan. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a source close to ...
The mother of journalist and prisoner of conscience, Hengameh Shahidi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that her daughter was healthy when she first went into prison but is now suffering from various illnesses and a continuation of the present situation will ...
Only a few days after her arrest, Nasrin Sotoudeh’s father passed away in the intensive care unit of a hospital. Summoned for some “explanations” to Evin prison’s court on 4 September 2010, Sotoudeh was subsequently arrested and imprisoned. Sotoudeh, a human rights lawyer and member ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Marzieh Pasdar, wife of imprisoned religious scholar Ahmad Ghabel, said her husband suffers from heart disease and was under treatment until his most recent arrest last week. Ghabel was a student of the ...
Following the summons of journalist and human rights activist Abdolreza Tajik’s sister, an informed source close to the Tajik family told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “The sister of this prisoner is being forced to stop talking to the media for a ...
Download Full Report (PDF) a. Description of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran was founded in 2008 to provide urgent and needed support for human rights and human rights defenders in Iran. The Campaign is dedicated to ...
This report presents information about compliance by the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) with its obligations as a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Following introductory information and general observations, Iran’s adherence to the pledges contained in a number of the ...
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran held a press conference in New York with panelists including Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Shirin Ebadi and Mairead Maguire; ABC’s Christiane Amanpour interviewed Ahmadinejad, an interview in which he boldly lied ...
Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, a women’s studies researcher and member of the One Million Signatures Campaign, was released today after she appeared before the Evin Prison Court “to provide some explanations,” and was informed of her charges. Khorasani was interrogated when she first appeared in court ...
Nobelists Call for Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Release On Friday, 17 September 2010, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, in partnership with Human Rights Watch and the Nobel Women’s Initiative, held a panel discussion in New York on the human rights crisis in Iran. The panelists ...
While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has proclaimed Iran’s respect for human rights and freedoms during his current New York media blitz, several prominent young Iranian students, human rights defenders, and journalists received harsh jail sentences in recent days, the International Campaign for Human Rights in ...
(20 September 2010) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lied outright about the stoning sentence of Sakineh Ashtiani during an interview with ABC’s Christiane Amanpour on 19 September, by denying a stoning sentence was ever issued, despite well-documented evidence to the contrary the International Campaign for Human Rights in ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Shirin Ebadi, head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, criticized the increasing pressure on the Iranian human rights community, reporting that Nasrin Sotoudeh has been under severe pressure since her arrest to ...
Marzieh Pasdar, wife of prisoner of conscience Ahmad Ghabel, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that in a telephone call last Tuesday, her husband told her he is being kept in isolation following his arrest. This is the second time Ghabel ...
Nazanin Davoodi, the wife of prisoner of conscience Arzhang Davoodi, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about the deteriorating health of her husband. “Last year, his phone calls were discontinued and he was not allowed to have contact with anyone. ...
In this week’s “Weekly Rights Podcast”: American hiker Sarah Shourd is released from prison after bail was paid through an Iranian account in Oman; Shiva Nazar Ahari is reportedly released from prison but still awaits a verdict on charges of enmity against God; Abdollah Momeni ...
