Prominent Iranian film director, Jafar Panahi, has gone on a hunger strike since Sunday, 16 May 2010, to protest abuse and ill-treatment as well as continuous threats against his family members. During a telephone call to his family today, Panahi told them he is on a ...

Mohammad Davari, member of the Teachers’ Association and Editor-in-Chief of Saham News’ website, and Mehdi Mahmoudian, member of the Participation Front Party, have each been sentenced to five years in prison. Kalame News announced that the sentences were issued directly to the defendants in absence ...

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has been informed of Amir Hossein Kazemi’s continued detention two months after his arrest. Kazemi is a member of the Iran Freedom Movement Party in Karaj and was arrested with dozens of other Freedom Movement members in ...

Jafar Kazemi’s death sentence has been upheld. His wife, Roudabeh Akbari, has written an open letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations advising him that force is being used on her husband in an attempt to pressure him into making confessions–and that Kazemi’s punishment ...

Following the secret execution of five political prisoners on 9 May 2010, a worldwide movement of academics is urging an end to executions. The petition, signed by hundreds of academics worldwide, can be viewed and endorsed at: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopexexcutionsiniran/ ...

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran interviewed Silva Harotonian who shared a cell with Shirin Alamhooli for several months at Evin Prison’s General Ward and Ward 209. She told the Campaign that she learned about life from Shirin and is shocked by news ...

Kurdane website reported the arrest of Jalal Aghvami, Spokesperson for the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan. His family said that they did not know his whereabouts for several hours on Thursday until it finally turned out that he had been arrested. They were ...

Security forces have been putting immense pressure on the family of executed prisoner, Shirin Alam Hooli, several sources report. The Change for Equality website reports that security forces have set up a post near Alam Hooli’s home, preventing people who show up to pay ...

Shortly after Iran announced that it had executed five Kurdish political activists on Sunday, I received an e-mail from a human rights campaigner in Tehran who knew one of them, asking me to spread the word about the hangings. “We are truly helpless,” she wrote, “and ...

A Tehran University student activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that there is a lot of sadness about the executions among many students. The students believe that the executions happened under very unfair and questionnable conditions. ...

Farzad Kamangar was one of the five people executed at Tehran’s Evin Prison last Sunday. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, his lawyer, Khalil Bahramian emphasized that his client was innocent. “The gentlemen do not have a shred ...

Today a human rights activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Mohammad Davari has twice gone on temporary hunger strikes in prison. Yet, this source said, Mohammad Davari is still being subjected to mistreatment, and physical and psychological abuse with the ...

Prominent Iranian journalist Ahmad Zeidabadi has been in prison since the Iranian elections. His wife, Mahdieh Mohammadi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she is concerned about her husband’s health. Mr. Zeidabadi is serving time under very difficult conditions among dangerous ...

A human rights activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that on 12 May several members of Mashad teachers’ unions went on a hunger strike to protest the continued detention of a Mashad teacher, Hashem Khastar. While on their hunger strike, ...

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Ali Kantoori, talks about the hygienic and medical conditions of Evin prison. The human rights activist, who was detained for several months in security wards of Evin Prison and Ghezel Hessar Prison, shares ...

Travel bans for Hassan Asadi Zeidabadi, Human Rights Secretary for Advar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat alumni organization, continue unexplained. In an interview with Advar News, Zeidabadi said: “I planned a trip to Geneva for a short academic training course on organizations that provide oversight to UN international ...

Rahmatollah Bastani, a 51-year-old professor at Sistan and Baluchistan University was dismissed from his position. Bastani taught theology and Qoranic Studies for 21 years. He was arrested in Qom on 28 March during a funeral ceremony for Ayatollah Montazeri’s wife, and was imprisoned ...

Iran’s election came at a time when many women’s rights activists and their international supporters issued a protest statement addressed to ECOSOC. They called the news of Iran’s candidacy confirmation “shocking,” and asked Council members to oppose Iran’s request and to make Iran’s presence ...

Student sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the trial court of Eftekhar Barzegarian, a student activist at Mashad’s Ferdowsi University will be held on 2 May, 2010, with Judge Kavoosi presiding. According to a source close to Barzegarian, he ...