The Iranian media’s method of disseminating information about the assassination of a Tehran University physics professor has created serious concerns about the nature of this murder and the police’s investigation of the case. From the very first hours that news of this incident was announced, ...
Shirin Ebadi, head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran today that if the Iranian judiciary were to issue a verdict based on evidence in the case and not the Prosecutor’s claims, the trial of the ...
On Tuesday, ILNA News Agency announced that verdicts for five individuals convicted after the post-election protests have been forwarded for implementation. From descriptions of the sentences, it appears that most charges are “participation in public gatherings after the elections,” and “publishing material on the ...
A Tehran University professor was killed in an explosion outside his home as he attempted to leave for work on Monday. Massoud Ali Mohammadi was a professor of physics and quantum at Tehran University. Tehran Province’s security authorities have suggested this could have been ...
Many believe the report from the Iranian Parliament’s fact finding commission about Kahrizak Detention Center, in which three young detainees died, is a step forward. However, the Iranian Parliament’s minority faction believes that certain important components, such as the suspicious death of Kahrizak’s young physician, ...
(10 January 2010) Authorities transferred nine of the 33 detained members of the Mourning Mothers to emergency rooms following their detention yesterday, and later took them to Vozara Detention Center in Tehran, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The nine mothers suffer ...
Although a few weeks ago the Iranian officials announced the trial date for the three Americans who accidentally entered Iranian soil five months ago, the trial never took place. Ramin Mehman Parast announced on Monday that the trial will soon take place but no specific ...
(9 January 2010) Security forces attacked and detained 30 members of Mourning Mothers in Laleh Park and surrounding streets in Tehran today at around 4 p.m. local time, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported. Mourning Mothers is a group of mothers whose ...
While several government, military, and religious authorities have spoken at speeches, sermons, and interviews about severe punishment of protesters who were detained on Ashura, demanding that Iranian judiciary issue verdicts of “muhareb” for them, in a recent sermon, Mesbah Yazdi who is the spiritual leader ...
(8 January 2010) Today’s assassination attempt against Iranian opposition leader and cleric Mehdi Karroubi bears signs of being organized by official structures, which then coordinated with the official Fars News Agency to control information about the crime, according to a member of Karroubi’s family, who ...
Iranian students: This New Year will be the year of the young liberators, openers of a new cycle of life in the world for the welfare of all citizens, and the routing of our way of doing politics in our spaces. It will be the consolidation of ...
Tehran's Prosecutor's Office announced on Thursday that the files of five suspects arrested on Ashura on charges of muharebeh have been completed and forwarded to Iran's Revolutionary courts. According ...
(7 January 2010) Iranian authorities have added new charges against 7 Baha’i leaders detained since 2008, under which they could be executed if convicted, and have arrested at least 12 more members of the religious minority, while desensitizing the Iranian population with propaganda campaigns against ...
A special commission of the Iranian Parliament formed to investigate the events of Kahrizak Detention Center submitted its final report on Sunday which was unanimously approved. The Commission made several visits to different police detention centers and conducted various interviews with police authorities, detainees, ...
The appointment of a top IRGC commander with a security background to the position of Adviser to the Judiciary has created concern among human rights activists who believe such action would lead to radicalization of the Judiciary and distortion of its independence. ...
Sohrab Razzaghi, civil society activist and researcher reviewed human rights, organizations active in human rights, and required steps for improving human rights in Iran during an interview with Zamaneh Radio. During this interview, he pointed out the positive effects of statements by international human rights ...
(6 January 2009) Islamic Republic authorities are attempting to shut down the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, one of the few human rights organizations still active in the country, and to stop the human rights activities of the student alumni group ADVAR, the International Campaign ...
(5 January 2010) Numerous women’s rights campaigners, female journalists and relatives are being arrested and persecuted as authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran attempt to repress masses of Iranians from advocating for their civil rights in recent weeks, the International Campaign for Human Rights ...
Following the post Ashura continuation of student protests in Iranian universities which led to cancellation of examinations at several Tehran universities, Sharif Industrial University’s Student Affairs Vice President has threatened the protesting students with strong confrontation. Vossoughi Vahdat told Fars News Agency: “We ...
On Monday, January 4, 2010, Mohammad Ali Ramin, Deputy Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance in charge of Press, told the reporters that, “Newspapers who receive notices or are banned are like corrupt and dirty elements which disturb the media landscape and by banning ...
(3 January 2010) In apparently coordinated messages, pro-government clerics have publicly called for detained protesters to be executed, placing intense political pressure on the Islamic Republic’s supposedly-independent judiciary to act as judicial authorities did in the early days of the Revolution, and attempting to ...
(29 December 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for the immediate and unconditional release of leading human rights defender Emadeddin Baghi, who was among numerous journalists and reformists detained on 28 December along with over 1,000 others, in the wake ...
(27 December 2009) Widespread protests began early in numerous Iranian cities today, and have resulted in the death of at least four civilians in Tehran, including the nephew of Mir-Hossein Moussavi, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported. The website of the reformist ...
(23 December 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran denounced attacks on followers and admirers of the late Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri today, as police used tear gas and pepper spray on protesters in Isfahan. While the authorities have banned all memorial ...
(20 December 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called on the Iranian government not to interfere with mourning ceremonies following the passing away of the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri in Qom and to end persecution and detention of his followers. The Campaign is ...
