Iran Launches New Assault on Freedom of Expression With Mass Criminal Investigation of BBC Persian Staff
Popular BBC talkshow presenter Pooneh Ghoddoosi in the studio. BBC Persian Staff Appeal to UN on Iran’s “Unprecedented Collective ...
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October 25, 2017
Swedish Resident Facing Death Penalty: I Was Imprisoned For Refusing to Spy For Iran’s Intelligence Ministry
Ahmadreza Djalali poses for a picture with his wife, Vida Mehran-nia. Ahmadreza Djajali, an Iranian-born Swedish resident who ...
October 9, 2017
Labor Activist Dies From Cancer Left Untreated in Iranian Prison
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October 9, 2017
Imprisoned Teachers’ Rights Advocate Esmail Abdi Denied Sentence Review
Esmail Abdi is serving a six-year prison sentence for peacefully advocating for teachers' rights in Iran. Iran’s judiciary has denied a ...
October 8, 2017
Innocent Bystanders Killed in Anti-Smuggling Operations in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province
A three-year-old boy and his father were killed by police men chasing alleged smugglers in the southeastern ...
October 8, 2017
Iran’s Ex-Reformist President Banned From Public Appearances Week After Seven MPs Sentenced to Prison
Former President Mohammad Khatami. Iran’s former reformist President Mohammad Khatami has been banned from making public appearances and receiving political guests for three months. The ban, first reported on October ...
October 8, 2017
Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri: Arrest of My Brother Was “Expected”
Photo of Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri's brother, Mehdi Jahangiri. First Vice President of Iran, ...
August 27, 2017
Tehran Prosecutor Calls Hunger Strikes “Threats” Amid Mass Strike at Rajaee Shahr Prison
“Prisoners must endure their punishment to the fullest” Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi has described hungers strikes undertaken by prisoners as “threats” that the judicial system ...
August 10, 2017
Iran Executes Man Arrested at 15 Despite Commitment to Stop Executing Juveniles
Prominent Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh: Case Had “Serious Holes” August 10, 2017–Iran has violated its international obligations by executing Alireza Tajiki, who was 15-years-old when he was arrested and 16 ...
April 3, 2017
Hunger-Striking Political Activist Detained Without Charge Writes Will in Evin Prison
After 24 days on hunger strike in Evin Prison in Tehran, reformist political activist Hengameh Shahidi, detained without charge and denied legal ...
April 3, 2017
Supporters Mark One-Year Anniversary of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Imprisonment in Iran
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s colleagues stand around her empty desk at the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s ...
March 16, 2017
Cartoon 163: Rouhani Protecting Citizen’s Rights
President Hassan Rouhani stands between Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and a political prisoner, ostensibly to protect the prisoner from Khamenei's bat, a metaphor for the Revolutionary Guards, while himself threatening the prisoner with ...
February 18, 2016
Iran’s Ban on Women at Volleyball Championship Continues with FIVB’s Nod
Security guards have prevented women from watching the Beach Volleyball World Championship on Iran’s Kish Island for a third consecutive day with ...
February 9, 2016
New App that Detects Morality Police is Instant Hit in Iran
Authorities Block App within 24 Hours of Its Debut A smartphone application aimed at helping Iranian users avoid the country’s morality police became a smash hit immediately ...
February 1, 2016
Call for Prime Minister Trudeau to Secure Release of Imprisoned Iranian-Canadian
February 1, 2016— Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should extend all efforts to obtain the release of Saeed Malekpour, a Canadian resident and web develop imprisoned ...
January 16, 2016
Release of Iranian Americans Welcomed, Time to Release All Political Prisoners
Steps Towards Reconciliation with the West Are Good but Iran Needs National Reconciliation As Well January 16, 2016—The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes the ...
December 11, 2015
Commentary: Khamenei’s New Letter to Western Youth is Case Study in Hypocrisy
Seyed Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has written a letter addressed to youths in Western countries and, as he did in an earlier similar letter, ...
December 1, 2015
Rouhani Administration Continues Ban on Popular Musician
Hossein Zaman Singer-songwriter Hossein Zaman, who has been banned from performing for nearly ten years and ...
November 30, 2015
Cartoon 130: Infiltration
Hardliners in Iran’s Parliament, Judiciary, and Revolutionary Guards are intensifying a broad crackdown on supporters of human rights and free elections, in a campaign underpinned ...
October 29, 2015
Iran Should Allow UN Human Rights Expert into Country
International Community Should Pursue Human Rights with Same Commitment as the Nuclear Deal October 29, 2015—The international community should urge Iranian authorities to allow the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, into the country, ...
November 17, 2014
New Report Reveals State’s Growing Efforts to Control Internet Access in Iran
The Rouhani administration should use all its authority to end the government’s initiatives to restrict Iranians’ access to the Internet, immediately cease state efforts to monitor users’ online accounts, and end the prosecution of individuals for their peaceful online activities, the International Campaign for Human ...
September 11, 2012
International Focus Can Lead to Release of Prisoners of Conscience
(September 11, 2012) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomed the release of Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani and said that cross-regional international attention from UN mechanisms, media, governments, and civil society and human rights organizations to the dire situation of human rights in Iran ...
September 6, 2012
“If Something Should Happen to My Father, Khamenei Himself Is Responsible,” Says Saharkhiz Son
Iranian journalist Issa Saharkhiz is on a hunger and medicine strike at Evin Prison in Tehran, his son told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. According to Mehdi Saharkhiz, Issa Saharkhiz embarked on a hunger strike on the evening of August 28, when ...
September 6, 2012
Political Prisoner Gholamreza Khosravi at Imminent Risk of Execution
A human rights activist familiar with the case of political prisoner Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that recent developments in Khosravi’s case indicate that he may be executed in the coming days. The source added that the political ...
September 5, 2012
Journalist Begins Prison Term, Two Others Transferred to Solitary Cells
Baniyaghoub was arrested on June 20, 2009, along with her husband, Bahman Ahmadi Amoueee, at their home. Sixty days later, she was released on bail. In June 2010, she was sentenced to one year in prison and a 30-year ban on journalistic activities on charges ...