A political prisoner, released and tried in the past few months, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that even though he served four months in prison, was interrogated for over 300 hours, and has a case file containing some 400 pages of ...
Shiva Nazar Ahari, a human rights activist and member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, has spent more than 120 days in prison. She was arrested for the second time in one year on 20 December 2009. Previously, she spent 102 days in ...
27 April 2010 Your Excellencies, The news of the Iranian government’s candidacy for membership in ECOSOC’s Commission on Status of Women (CSW) has disturbed women’s rights activists worldwide. According to the available information, ECOSOC members will vote on Iran’s candidacy for a vacant seat from the Asia ...
(26 April 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expressed serious concern today regarding the issuance of death sentences for post-election protestors in Iran. The Campaign released a short video aimed at raising international awareness about such politically motivated executions, which can be viewed ...
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Over the past few months, several lawyers who represent political prisoners have expressed concern over the Iranian Judiciary’s lack of impartiality, as well as the widespread influence of Ministry of Intelligence and IRGC’s Intelligence Unit in the Judiciary’s decision-making processes. In an interview with ...
Four months after being arrested, Majid Tavakoli, an Amir Kabir University student and member of the Islamic Student Association, continues to be deprived of access to his lawyers. Three months after receiving a sentence of eight years and six months’ imprisonment, five years’ deprivation of ...
This video was produced by the Campaign to raise awareness for the execution sentence of Mohammad Amin Valian, a 20 year old student sentenced to death for throwing stones during a protest. Watch this video on Youtube ...
Mohammad Reza Alipour, Deputy Commander of the Tehran Police said that the police intend to organize nongovernmental organizations in a “centralized” way, a signal to activists that creating new impediments for Iran ’s civil society is entering a new stage. In introduction ceremonies for his ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Behrouz Alavi, a student activist and member of the Islamic Association at Tarbiat Moallem University, described the condition of Shabnam Madadzadeh as critical and said: “Unfortunately, Shabnam is not in good physical condition. ...
Student sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that 40 days after the arrest of Dr. Ali Akbar Soroush, a Mazandaran University professor and head of Participation Front’s Mazandaran Branch, he remains at Sari’s Intelligence Ministry detention center under immense pressure and ...
Last Thursday, members of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran met with the three young American hikers arrested last July on Iran’s western border. The meeting was their third in the past ten months. During this meeting, Swiss diplomats representing US interests in Iran had long ...
(24 April 2010) The withdrawal of Iran’s candidacy for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, which was vociferously opposed by Iranian civil society leaders and human rights community, is a victory for Iranian citizens whose human rights would very likely have suffered ...
(23 April 2010) Prominent Iranian human rights defenders and other members of civil society are calling on United Nations member states to soundly reject the Iranian government’s bid to become a member of the Human Rights Council. Despite Iran’s chronic neglect of international human rights, and ...
Your Excellency, We are a diverse group of nongovernmental organizations from all parts of the world, working in the field of human rights. We write in opposition to the candidacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, ...
To read letter in Persian click here 20 April 2010 Your Excellencies, The candidacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran for membership in the United Nations Human Rights Council, an international body that has been established after decades of efforts by the human rights community to uphold ...
To read letter in Persian click here Open Letter to Members of the UN General Assembly By Dr Shirin Ebadi, Human Rights Advocate and 2003 Nobel Laureate 20 April 2010 Since the UN General Assembly must adopt a decision on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s bid for ...
Student activists told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Northern Iran security and judicial organizations continue their increasing pressure on activists. According to their report, last Tuesday morning, Nima Nahvi, a student at Noshirvani Industrial University in Babol and Hossein Jalil Nataj, ...
By Akbar Ganji The past year has been a horrifying one for the Iranian people. Following the presidential election in June, people poured into the streets for a peaceful protest against widespread election fraud. Government forces and militia opened fire on orders from the Supreme Leader. Some ...
by Mehrangiz Kar As a guest scholar at Cape Town University, I have been studying South Africa’s peaceful transition from Apartheid rule to a democratic constitution with much curiosity. My generation grew up in Iran with the daily news of your struggles against Apartheid. From far ...
Oped in the Daily Star of Lebanon by Ali Akbar Mousavi against inclusion of Iran on the HRC. ...
Printed in the International Herald Tribune on Apr 20, 2010 The Iranian authorities suspended two prominent opposition political parties, banned a newspaper and handed down prison sentences to three reformist political ...
Editorial in The New York Times: American hikers in jail for nine months. Two-hundred-sixty-four days. ...
Saba Vasefi, a former professor at Shahid Beheshti University who is a women’s movement and human rights activist is one of the faculty members who has been deprived from her teaching job during the recent months and following the dismissal of several university teachers. In ...
Activist Kaveh Rezaei Shirazi has been summoned to turn himself in for commencement of his 1.5 year sentence in a case where Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence filed charges against him. Rezaei Shirazi is an activist with the One Million Signatures Campaign and an expelled student ...
