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April 30, 2013

Cartoon 52: Pre-Election Crackdown on Journalists

In the lead-up to the June 2013 presidential elections, restrictions on journalists have intensified over the last few months. Kaleme Website reported that the Intelligence Ministry recently summoned a meeting with newspaper editors. ...

April 29, 2013

Censorship and Power in Iran with Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari

Join us in New York for a special screening of Forced Confessions, a film documenting the history of this tactic in Iran, followed by a discussion with Jon Stewart, Maziar Bahari, and Joel Simon. ...

April 29, 2013

Sanctions and Regime Policies Cause Growing Crisis in Iran

The international community should target sanctions more effectively to impose costs on the Iranian government and not its citizens, and the Iranian government should end its policies that worsen the crisis in access to medicines, foods, and other essential imports, the International Campaign for Human ...

April 29, 2013

Acknowledgments

This study was researched and written by Dr. Dariush Zahedi for the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Dr. Zahedi is a lecturer at the ...

April 29, 2013

Conclusion

A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights Conclusion The purpose of this study is to alert ...

April 29, 2013

Medicine and Healthcare

A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights Medicine and Healthcare Crucially, the combination of sanctions ...

April 29, 2013

The Professional Middle Class, Small Business Owners, and Bazaaris

A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights ...

April 29, 2013

Manufacturing, Blue Collar Workers, and the Urban Poor

A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights ...

April 29, 2013

Consequences for the Iranian Economy

A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights Consequences for the ...

April 29, 2013

Crippling Sanctions

A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights Crippling Sanctions US President Obama signed the ...

April 29, 2013

The Ahmadinejad Period (2005–Present)

A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights The Ahmadinejad Period (2005-Present) Even before ...

April 29, 2013

The Khatami Period (1997–2005)

A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights The Khatami Period (1997-2005) Neither the ...

April 29, 2013

The Rafsanjani Period (1989–1997)

A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights The Rafsanjani Period (1989-1997) With the ...

April 29, 2013

The Khomeini Period (1979–1989)

A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights The Khomeini Period (1979-1989) During the ...

April 29, 2013

Iran’s Economic Malaise from 1979–2012

A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights Iran’s ...

April 29, 2013

Introduction

A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights Introduction This study will examine ...

April 29, 2013

Recommendations

A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights Recommendations To the governments of the United States ...

April 29, 2013

Executive Summary

A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights Executive Summary Despite the international community’s stated ...

April 26, 2013

67-year-old Baha’i Prisoner’s Psychological and Physical Health Suffers

Riaz Sobhani, a 67-year-old Baha’i citizen imprisoned since June 2011 for financially assisting the Baha’i Institute of Higher Education (BIHE), is in dire physical and psychological conditions, especially considering his age, his son told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The Baha’i prisoner ...

April 26, 2013

2013 Elections: Former MP Arrested for a Political Meeting That Never Happened

Former Member of Parliament Hossein Loghmanian and four reformist activists from Hamadan Province were arrested while on their way to Tehran to meet former president Mohammad Khatami on March 16, 2013. These arrests may mark the first detentions of political figures in relation to the ...

April 23, 2013

Accused of Waging “Soft War,” Christian Pastor Beaten in Iran’s Evin Prison

Christian pastor Saeed Abedini was conducting a routine visit to the non-profit orphanage his family helped to start in Rasht when Iranian security forces arrested him and seized his passport in July 2012. Five months later, Iranian courts convicted him of “undermining national security,” accusing ...

April 19, 2013

Kurdish Former Political Prisoners Intimidated and Harassed in Orumiyeh and Mahabad

Over the past several months, Orumiyeh and Mahabad Intelligence Offices have summoned, detained, and harassed several Kurdish former political prisoners on the pretext of concern over their continued political activities after their release from prison, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights ...

April 19, 2013

Political Prisoners Protest Cell Search with 72-hour Hunger Strike

Political prisoners in Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj are currently undergoing a 72-hour hunger strike in protest of degrading treatment by Special Guard forces, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. On April 17, Special Guard forces stormed the prison’s ...

April 19, 2013

City of Shiraz Advertises Public Hanging of Nine Armed Robbers

The Public Relations Office of the Fars Province Judiciary reported on April 16 the public execution of nine individuals described as “armed robbers” and “members of three armed robbery gangs.” According to the Fars Judiciary report, the execution sentences of six of the individuals were ...

April 18, 2013

Podcast 58: Elahe Amani on Stoning and Women’s Rights in Iran

“In late February of 2012, Iran announced that ‘We reformed the penal code, and there is a ban on death penalty by stoning and execution of minors.’ But . . . during the course of [the] last three decades, stoning has been claimed to be ...

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