Less than one week before the upcoming Iranian New Year’s holidays, a media activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Mohammad Ali Ramin, Deputy Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, will most likely attempt to close down several publications before the ...

One month after the arrest of Alireza Falahati, there is no news of his whereabouts. Falahati was a campaign head for the Islamic Iran Participation Front in Babol and a member of the party’s Mazandaran Province youth branch. A source close to Falahati’s family said ...

In the continuation of pressure on students and political activists in the province of Mazandaran, Ali Akbar Soroush, a member of the Mazandaran Participation Front Central Council, and two other students of Babol Noshirvani Industrial University, Mohammad Reza Massoumian and Mohammad Maleki, were arrested. ...

Members of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) are virtually certain not to vote on a resolution dealing with the human rights crisis in Iran in the March Session of the Council, based on numerous meetings between diplomats and the International Campaign for Human ...

While the release of some political prisoners is underway before celebrations of Persian New Year (Nowruz) begin, Iranian Judiciary authorities continue to issue heavy bails for political activists. In the last round of heavy bail orders, Iranian scholar Kian Tajbakhsh, who was arrested eight months ...

Mohammad Esmaeelzadeh, a blogger from Mazandaran, was transferred to the General Ward of Babol Prison. He is serving a 91 day prison sentence for insulting the Supreme Leader. A source close to Esmaeelzadeh told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his request ...

Four Birjand University student activists, Ali Sepandar, Behzad Parvin, Amin Ostadi, and Milad Garajian were arrested again last week for the second time since the Iranian elections. The students are members of the Central and General Councils of Islamic Association of Birjand University. They have ...

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In an interview with International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, women’s rights activist, researcher, and documentary filmmaker Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, analyzes the condition of the Iranian women’s movement and civil society activists in Iran after the 12 June 2009 elections. Abbasgholizadeh who formerly headed the ...

The location and reasons for the arrest of Mashad Azad University student activist, Mohammad Reza Lotfi Yazdi, who was arrested by security forces at his father’s home more than 10 days ago, are still unknown. A close relative of Lotfi who is familiar with ...

In their second letter to Sadegh Larijani, Head of the Iranian Judiciary, the Defenders of Human Rights Center has objected strongly to the issuance and execution of death sentences, especially in the cases of those arrested during post-elections protests. The group has demanded emphatically that ...

A source close to families of three Iranian journalists, Vahid Pourostad, Akbar Montajebi, and Ehsan Mehrabi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that despite an announcement from the Iranian Judiciary about their release, they are yet to be released. As more political ...

(Analysis) – News of Abdollah Momeni’s release on the heavy bail of approximately $800,000 makes it appear that the Judiciary is setting ransoms and not bails. In fact most of the political prisoners released on bail over the past few months appear to be hostages ...

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Hassan Assadi Zeidabadi, Head of the Human Rights Committee of Tahkim-e Vahdat Alumni Association, a large student organization in Iran, reviewed the new statements of Iran’s Minister of Science pertaining to the dismissal ...

Morteza Semyari, Secretary of Social Affairs of Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat, was released on a 600 million Tooman (equivalent to US $600,000) bail and custodianship. Semyari’s release orders from Ward 209 of Evin prison were issued after his bail of $500,000 and his custodianship of $100,000 were ...

The Barcelona city council has approved an institutional statement in favor and support of human rights in Iran. The text of the statement is below (translated from Spanish): The municipal council agrees: 1- To declare its concern about the persistent and recurrent violation of human rights in ...

In an interview with International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Hessam Mishaghi, spokesperson for the Right to Education Committee, most of whose members are in prison right now, spoke of barriers for education for Bahais and students who are active in civil and political ...

In statements which have caused grave concern amongst the Iranian human rights and social activists, Iranian Minister of Science, Research, and Technology, Kamran Daneshjoo, has said that only those can teach or study at universities who have proven commitment to Islam and velayat-e faghih. Therefore ...

A student source told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Mashad Azad University student and human rights activist Reza Lotfi was violently abducted from his home by plainclothes forces last night. During the late hours of last night, several plainclothes forces stormed ...

While over the past few days several sources have published news of Mohammad Valian’s death sentence as the first case of its kind upheld by an appeals court, Valian family refrain from confirming the news. One of his Mohammad Valian’s classmates told International Campaign ...

With the widespread flight of many Iranian journalists and political and social activists who are now in neighboring countries, seeking asylum from third countries over the past few months, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has tried to demonstrate the issues and ...

After the Iranian Presidential elections of 12 June 2009 which was accompanied by widespread political arrests, the visitation pattern of political prisoners’ families changed drastically from previous years. The number of political prisoners increased and therefore the number of families who were in search of ...

Distinguished Iranian attorney Abdolsamad Khorramshahi is one of 36 attorneys who were recently disqualified by the Judges Court for membership in the Board of Directors of the Iranian Bar Association. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, he expressed concern ...

A source close to Jafar Panahi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: “Over the past years, Ministry of Information authorities have summoned Jafar Panahi to different investigation offices of the Ministry in different locations and have questioned him. In one of these ...