Branch 26 of Iran’s Revolutionary Courts has sentenced journalist Badrolssadat Mofidi to six years in prison and five years’ deprivation of press activities. Mofidi is Secretary General of the Iranian Journalists Association. Mohammad Sharif, Mofidi’s lawyer, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran ...
Hoda Saber, a prisoner of conscience in Evin Prison, had disappeared for two whole weeks before his family heard any news about him. His wife, Fahimeh Jamshidi, spoke recently with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. She said that his family met ...
Just before the 16-day hunger strike of prisoners at Evin Prison ended, the mother of one of the prisoners on hunger strike spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Parvin Mokhtare, whose human rights activist son, Kouhyar Goudarzi was among the prisoners ...
Fifteen political prisoners have ended their 16-day hunger strike. They published a statement saying that they ended their hunger strike in response to messages from political and civil activists who expressed concern for their health. In recent days, some families of prisoners told the International Campaign ...
(11 August 2010) The Iranian state-controlled radio and television, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), has acted as an arm of intelligence and security agencies implicated in gross human rights violations since the disputed presidential election of June 2009, the International Campaign for Human Rights ...
(10 August 2010) Seven leaders of the Iranian Baha’i community, each of whom has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on security, espionage and other crimes, should be freed by an appeals court, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. “We consider ...
Nora Shourd, mother of American hiker Sarah Shourd, announced to the media yesterday that in a surprise telephone call her daughter said her health has deteriorated and that she needs immediate medical attention which is denied to her. Families of the American Prisoners in Iran ...
Mehdi Saharkhiz, son of distinguished journalist and prisoner of conscience Issa Saharkhiz, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that despite his poor health, his father’s spirits are high. About a letter written by several journalists in Rajaee Shahr Prison proposing a live debate ...
Blog/Note: Will the secret of the 1988 mass executions of political prisoners be revealed soon? Will thousands of families who lost their loved ones in the span of just a few months know who ordered the executions and who carried them out? Will those responsible ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Zoleikha Moussavi, mother of blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, discussed her son's poor prison conditions. She told the Campaign that her son has been under immense pressure in prison to participate in televised confessions. ...
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: 17 prisoners of conscience go on hunger strike to protest poor treatment, lack of health facilities, and suspension of family visits; marking the one year anniversary of their arrest, hundreds attended rallies around the world in support of the ...
Majid Dorri, a student activist, has been sentenced to exile at Izeh Prison. His brother, Mojtaba Dorri, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about his brother's exile sentence: "They never gave us his written verdict, but his sentence was initially two ...
(4 August 2010) The Iranian Judiciary should immediately release seventeen prisoners of conscience who have been on hunger strike for the past ten days and whose health is deteriorating daily, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The seventeen prisoners include prominent student ...
Mohammad Ali Haj Aghaee's death sentence on the charge of moharebeh (enmity with God) has been upheld by an appeals court in Tehran. His lawyer, Mehdi Hojjati, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, "He was accused of cooperating with the ...
Hundreds of people gathered last Saturday in several cities around the world to protest the year-long imprisonment of three young American hikers. The three individuals, who according to Iranian authorities crossed Iran's western borders, were arrested on 31 July 2009. Though they claim to have ...
His spouse and brother in law detained Mohamad Mostafaei, the Iranian lawyer of Sakineh Ashtiani who is sentenced to death by stoning, has been in an undisclosed location since Saturday. He was questioned and later the same day was summoned to the infamous Evin prison, but ...
The Iranian authorities have accused the wife and the brother in law of Mohamed Mostafaei, the lawyer for the woman sentenced to stoning for adultery, of aiding him to flee. Authorities assured them that if the lawyer is handed to them they will be released, ...
A post-election protester’s death sentence has been upheld in an appeals court in Tehran, according to his lawyer. Jafar Kazemi’s lawyer, Nasim Ghanavi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that her client’s sentence has been upheld and that Branch 31 of the ...
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: the family of human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaee is taken hostage by security forces in an attempt to force Mostafaee out of hiding; Parvin Tajik, sister of imprisoned journalist Abdolreza Tajik, tells the Campaign of her brother being “violated” ...
A family member of a political prisoner at Evin prison told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that 15 political prisoners have been moved from the prison's General Ward to solitary confinement. Among those transferred is journalist Bahman Ahmadi Amouee, who is currently ...
Shadi Sadr, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, published the following open letter regarding the case of persecuted lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaee: Honourable Chair of Iran Bar Association, Honourable members of the management committee, You are aware that on Saturday 2nd Mordad 1389 (24th July 2010) the security ...
The nine year prison sentence for student activist Bahareh Hedayat was recently upheld by an appeals court in Tehran. Hedayat is a member of the Central Council and spokesperson of the Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat student organization. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human ...
(27 July 2010) Iranian authorities should end their efforts to arrest Mohammad Mostafaee, a human rights lawyer whose work came into international focus with his defense of Sakineh Ashtiani, a woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery, the International Campaign for Human Rights ...
Nasim Ghanavi, lawyer for Kefayat Malek Mohammadi, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about the latest situation in the case of her client, who was arrested with her husband during last year’s Ashura protests (27 December 2009). “My client was ...
Following the disappearance of political activist Hoda Saber, his wife, Fahimeh Jamshidi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that her husband’s disappearance cannot be without reason. Jamshidi added that her husband, who is a distinguished political figure, has been under pressure ...
