Prominent Imprisoned Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Hunger Strikes For Fellow Prisoner Farhad Meysami

Imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh started a second hunger strike on November 26, 2018, to protest the Iranian authorities’ refusal to allow ailing fellow political prisoner Farhad Meysami to receive ...

June 14, 2013

Reading Marx in Tehran (New York Times)

Iran’s presidential election on June 14 will be neither free nor fair. ...

August 1, 2012

American Hikers’ Lawyer Threatened, Interrogated, Denied Permission to Leave Iran

Massoud Shafiee, the lawyer who represented the three Americans who were released after more than a year in an Iranian prison, said in an exclusive interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that since his clients left Iran he has been repeatedly ...

July 3, 2012

Dissident Cleric Tortured and Prosecuted: “They Told Me ‘We Will Snatch Your Wife”’

Arash Honarvar Shojayee, a dissident blogger and cleric, returned to Evin Prison on Saturday, June 30, after his furlough leave ended. Hours before returning to prison, in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, he said that he will be put ...

February 29, 2012