After eight months in prison, Eftekhar Barzegarian was released from Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison. Barzegarian is a Ferdowsi University student activist who was deprived from continuing his education through four semester’s suspension and expelled from the university. He was released on guardianship (in lieu ...
With the travel ban of Hadi Esmaeelzadeh, a member of the Center of Human Rights Defenders, currently seven members of this human rights organization have been barred from leaving Iran. Some of the other members of the organization who have been banned from traveling abroad ...
In an interview about the Evin Prison Court which has been established for reviewing the cases of political prisoners, prominent Iranian lawyer and former Deputy Chairperson of the Iranian Bar Association Farideh Gheirat told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that access to her ...
On April 19, 2010, a group of political prisoners at Evin Prison wrote an open letter addressed to religious leaders, describing their difficult conditions including physical, sexual, and psychological torture, asking the clerics to state their positions vis a vis violations of fair trial procedures ...
(20 April 2010) Death sentences issued to three family members and two of their close associates after a politicized, unfair trial, at which only weak evidence was presented, reveal a continuing program of punishing post-election protestors and intimidating the population, the International Campaign for Human ...
(19 April 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran today strongly condemned government threats against Maziar Bahari and warned against possible government sponsored violence targeting dissidents and activists abroad. In an interview with the Campaign, Bahari said that an unidentified caller contacted his family ...
(19 April 2010) The Iranian government continues to dismiss prominent university professors on political grounds, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. After the dismissal of Dr. Morteza Mardiha from his faculty post at Allameh Tabatabaee University on 5 April 2010, two Elm-va-San’at ...
In a widely published recent letter to Sadegh Larijani, Head of Iranian Judiciary, Mohammad Mostafaee, lawyer to a group of civil and political activists has objected to “numerous violations by Head of Branch 28 of Revolutionary Courts,” demanding closer oversight of court officers related to ...
Iranian journalist Omid Memarian testifying before Congress regarding internet freedom in Iran on 2 March 2010 ...
(15 April 2010) The Iranian government’s refusal to allow former president Mohammad Khatami to attend a conference in Hiroshima, Japan, is a violation of his freedom of movement and part of a broad but futile effort to contain critical voices and prevent them from having ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a student activist reported the release of Ali Sepandar and Behzad Parvin, two members of the Central Council of the Islamic Association at Birjand University. The two students were being held in Birjand ...
A student activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Mohammad Reza Lotfi Yazdi, a Mashad student activist was released from Evin Prison today. He was released into the custody of a guardian (in lieu of bail). Mr. Lotfi Yazdi ...
(14 April 2010) The Iranian Judiciary should immediately halt the operation of a recently-established “special court” at Evin prison, which confines judges and magistrates to the prison complex and denies lawyers and families any access to judicial proceedings, the International Campaign for Human Rights in ...
Four months after his arrest, political activist Heshmatollah Tabarzadi remains in solitary confinement cells of Ward 209 of Evin Prison. According to his lawyer, his initial court which met for the first time last Wednesday was supposed to be today but was postponed again. ...
One week after the dismissal of Dr. Morteza Mardiha from his faculty post at Allameh Tabatabee University, the dismissal of two Elm-o-San'at University professors adds a new dimension to the campaign to dismiss faculty members who have different viewpoints from the government, or who have ...
During the post-elections arrests of 2009, tens of those arrested were citizens who did not belong to any groups or political parties, or whose names were never mentioned in a social and political context. These prisoners remain in detention anonymously and their families’ efforts ...
On Sunday morning, Babol Prosecutor’s Office agreed to a short furlough for Mohammad Esmaeelzadeh. Student sources told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that following repeated requests by Mohammad Esmaeelzadeh for a furlough leave to visit and spend time with his wife and ...
Eftekhar Barzegarian, a student activist at Mashad Ferdowsi University who has been in prison since September 2009 is suffering from a grave illness. Student sources told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he is currently suffering from multiple illnesses and is repeatedly ...
Quoting the General and Revolutionary Courts of Tehran, IRNA News Agency reported on Sunday that the case file of Kouhyar Goudarzi, member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters has been submitted to the courts along with his indictment. Mina Jafari, Goudarzi’s lawyer told the ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh, lawyer for two prisoners, Ayoub Porkar and Reza Khademi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the initial court’s death sentences for her clients has been overturned, and that the two prisoners were sentenced to long prison terms instead. ...
In an open letter widely published in the media, Fatemeh Alvandi, mother of Mehdi Mahmoudian, declared Tehran’s Prosecutor responsible for her son’s dangerous physical condition, due to damages he sustained during his detention. Mahmoudian is a journalist, a member of the Participation Front Information Committee, ...
(10 April 2010) The Iranian Intelligence Ministry is manipulating the judicial process by forcing the issuance of harsh and long sentences for activists regardless of the lack of credible evidence against them, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The attorney for jailed ...
While Iran’s Minister of Intelligence announced on Thursday that definitive evidence exists that the three imprisoned American hikers were cooperating with US intelligence organizations, promising to share the evidence with the media, their lawyer told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the ...
An attorney representing those arrested during the post elections protests told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that during the visits he has had to the Revolutionary Courts, he has observed cases where a green bracelet or ribbon were used as evidence of crime ...
The latest news from student activist Mohammad Yousefi, who has been imprisoned since December 7, 2009, is that his and his family's repeated requests for a ...
