Charlie Rose Interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad September 28, 2009 CHARLIE ROSE: Tell me in your words what happened in the election in Iran, and why it resulted in so many people in the street, so many people arrested, so much talk about arrest, torture, death ...
Back to Main Interview in which questions pertaining to human rights were asked (most recent first): 1. George Stephanopoulos - ABC News 2. Kim Bildsoe - Dutch TV 3. Jon Snow - Channel 4 UK 4. Katie Couric ...
Interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by Ann Curry of NBC News September 18, 2008 ANN CURRY: You are a father what do you say to the families who accuse this government of brutalities, torture, disappearances of their sons and daughters? AHMADINEJAD: You are expressing certain claims that ...
Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Larry King - CNN September 23, 2008 KING: By the way, you mentioned human rights in Israel. Don’t you have some human rights problems of your own in Iran? AH: What do you mean by human rights problems? KING: People protesting that they don’t ...
Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman Interviews Ahmadinejad September 26, 2008 AMY GOODMAN: (Re: Homosexuality) On Wednesday, I asked the Iranian President to clarify his statement. AHMADINEJAD: I didn’t say they don’t exist, not the way they are here. In Iran it’s considered as a very unlikable and ...
Interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on CNN and Iran Press TV by Christiane Amanpour June 14, 2009 CHRISTIANE: You said that you are the president of all Iranians no matter who they voted for. I’d like to ask you, what is the situation with your challenger ...
Diane Sawyer of ABC’s ‘World News Tonight’ Interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad December 22, 2009 DIANE SAWYER: The three American hikers who say they accidentally wandered into Iranian territory while looking at waterfalls, Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, and Sarah Shourd. You said you were going to ...
Next: Iranian Officials’ Claims on Rights Issues: Myths vs. Facts Executions and Stoning Since last year’s disputed Presidential election, the Iranian government has instituted a hyped-up campaign of executions, virtually all of which have followed unfair trials. Amnesty International estimates that Iran executed ...
Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Larry King - CNN September 26, 2009 KING: Your country has, you’ve said, rather, that 40 million people participated in the June elections. Iran uses paper ballots. They’re hand counted. Yet the Interior Ministry announced the official results less than 24 hours ...
Katie Couric’s Interview with Ahmadinejad - CBS Evening News September 29, 2009 Couric: During and after the presidential election, Mr. President, thousands of opposition supporters and journalists were arrested, badly beaten, and tortured. One woman, 27 year old Neda, as you know, was shot to ...
Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Channel 4 of England’s December 23, 2009 JON SNOW: There have been disturbances there has been awful scenes of violence on the streets and that has disturbed people inside and outside Iran. That makes it difficult to extend hand doesn’t it? AHMADINEJAD: We ...
Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Kim Bildsoe of Dutch TV January 8, 2010 KIM BILDSOE: There has been protestors on the street, some have called them also lately, traitors, that they don’t understand Iran. Do you think that the young people on the street, making trouble some ...
Ahmadinejad Interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s 'Good Morning America' May 4, 2010 They first spoke about relations between Obama, Secretary Clinton, and Iran and the nuclear issue. This portion was about the American hikers: STEPHANOPOULOS: Three American hikers have been imprisoned in Iran ...
Next: Appendix: Iranian Officials’ Replies to Human Rights Oriented Questions in Previous Interviews Reviewed by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran Back ...
Next: Interviewers and Human Rights Issues Discussed Back to Page 1 of Suggested Questions 8. Question on allegations of forced confessions Question: How do you respond to allegations by ...
Page 2 of Suggested Questions 1. Question on former Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi Question: Former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi has been indicted by a ...
Next: A Brief Summary of Major Human Rights Violations in Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s coming visit to New York, for the opening of the 65th session of the United Nations’ General Assembly, will be his second visit to this city since the disputed election of ...
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Next: Suggested Questions for President Ahmadinejad Quotes from Interviews “Iran is very free. It is the highest conceivable degree of freedom. We don’t have a party based system. It is a free government, very close to the people.” Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Kim Bildsoe of ...
Next: Interviewing Ahmadinejad Since 1984, the United Nations has expressed concern about human rights practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran through successive resolutions of the UN General Assembly and Commission on Human Rights. Iran has failed to abide by these UN resolutions to ...
Next: Notable Facts about Iran’s International Record and Cooperation on Human Rights Information in this section was compiled jointly with the Democracy Coalition Project ...
The Campaign has learned that the prominent human rights defender, Shiva Nazar Ahari, was freed on bail, in the amount of $500,000, on 12 September 2010. She is awaiting sentencing following her trial held on 4 September....
The wife of Moharram Chegini, one of those murdered during post-election protests, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Iranian authorities are evading paying the diya, blood money, to Chegini’s family. In response to her requests for identification of her husband’s murderer, ...
(9 September 2010) Abdollah Momeni, a prominent Iranian activist jailed since June 2009, has described being severely tortured, forced to make false confessions, and subjected to a “show trial” in a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Momeni is serving a four ...
In the Name of God Ayatollah Khamenei The Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran During one of my days in detention at Evin prison, I had the opportunity to hear a televised speech by you. You spoke of the importance of opposing injustice and the ...
