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Leading Societal Figures in Iran Urge Americans to Support Nuclear Deal

September 1, 2015

More than fifty prominent members of Iranian society have written an open letter to the American people urging them to ask their Congressional representatives to support the nuclear agreement reached with Iran in July 2015. Describing themselves as ...

Jailed Activist Diagnosed with Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis

Jailed Activist Diagnosed with Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis

August 31, 2015

Atena Daemi, children’s rights and civil activist Family Hopes Atena Daemi Will Be Released on Medical Grounds A doctor at Evin Prison has diagnosed imprisoned children’s ...

Wife of Imprisoned Pastor Asks US Officials to Obtain Release of Her Husband

Wife of Imprisoned Pastor Asks US Officials to Obtain Release of Her Husband

August 31, 2015

Saeed Abedini American officials must do more to obtain the release of unjustly imprisoned Iranian-Americans, according to the wife of Saeed Abedini, an Iranian-American pastor who is currently serving an ...

Prominent Women’s Rights Activist Held Illegally after Completion of Sentence

Prominent Women’s Rights Activist Held Illegally after Completion of Sentence

August 28, 2015

Bahareh Hedayat Given Two Additional Years in Prison after She Was Due for Release August 28, 2015—The student and women's rights activist Bahareh Hedayat, imprisoned for over five years in Iran, has been given an additional ...

Former Tehran Prosecutor Acquitted of Charges in Kahrizak Murders despite Overwhelming Evidence

Former Tehran Prosecutor Acquitted of Charges in Kahrizak Murders despite Overwhelming Evidence

August 24, 2015

Saeed Mortazavi, The former Tehran Prosecutor Mortazavi Verdict Shows Officials Still Enjoy Impunity even in Cases of Torture and Death of Prisoners. The former Tehran Prosecutor, Saeed Mortazavi, was acquitted on August 19, 2015, on ...

Banning of Films Continues under Rouhani Administration, 14 Movies Now Forbidden

Banning of Films Continues under Rouhani Administration, 14 Movies Now Forbidden

August 17, 2015

Banning of Films Continues under Rouhani Administration Despite repeated statements made by President Rouhani regarding the need to allow more cultural freedoms in ...

Ailing Student Activist’s Continued Detention Violates Iran’s Own Laws

Ailing Student Activist’s Continued Detention Violates Iran’s Own Laws

August 13, 2015

Bahareh Hedayat’s Continued Detention Violates Iran’s Own Laws Prominent student activist Bahareh Hedayat should have been released by the end of July ...

Rezaian’s Lawyer Prevented from Responding to Prosecutor’s Accusations

Rezaian’s Lawyer Prevented from Responding to Prosecutor’s Accusations

August 11, 2015

The blatant denial of due process on display on the last day of Jason Rezaian’s trial on August 10, 2015, when his lawyer was not allowed to present arguments in response to the prosecutor, confirms ...

Facebook Activist Details How She Received a Seven-Year Prison Sentence in Iran

Facebook Activist Details How She Received a Seven-Year Prison Sentence in Iran

August 4, 2015

Naghmeh Shahsavandi Shirazi One of the eight Facebook activists sentenced to long prison sentences in 2013 for social and political commentary posted on their Facebook pages, has asserted that she was denied access to a lawyer during her detention, interrogated about ...

More than 100 Teachers Detained for Hours for Attempting Peaceful Protest

July 24, 2015

A planned protest by teachers in front of the Iranian Parliament in Tehran’s Baharestan Square was pre-empted by security forces who detained scores of teachers who arrived to take part in it on the morning of July 22. According to Sedigheh ...

Peaceful Dissent Denied in Iran by Equating Criticism of the Government with Religious Sin

Peaceful Dissent Denied in Iran by Equating Criticism of the Government with Religious Sin

July 21, 2015

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Member of Spiritual Group Sentenced to Prison and Lashes

Member of Spiritual Group Sentenced to Prison and Lashes

July 20, 2015

Masoumeh Zia, a member of the Erfan-e Halgheh spiritual group, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she has been sentenced to a year in prison and 74 lashes for “disturbing public order” and taking part in a gathering protesting the arrest of the group’s leader, Mohammad Ali ...

Pursue Human Rights in Iran with the Same Vigor as the Nuclear Accord

July 20, 2015

By Hadi Ghaemi  Lobelog.com- The nuclear accord reached this week between Iran and the P5+1 countries represents a resounding victory for diplomacy and peace. It was achieved only through unrelenting determination borne from a realization ...

“Now comes the time to focus on human rights in Iran,” UN expert welcomes opportunity created by nuclear deal

“Now comes the time to focus on human rights in Iran,” UN expert welcomes opportunity created by nuclear deal

July 15, 2015

GENEVA (15 July 2015) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed  today called on the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the international community ...

Nuclear Accord with Iran is a Victory for Diplomacy and Peace

Nuclear Accord with Iran is a Victory for Diplomacy and Peace

July 14, 2015

Human Rights Must Be Pursued with the Same Vigor July 14, 2015—The agreement between Iran and the P5+1 world powers on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear activities, reached on July 14, 2015 after many months ...

Intelligence Ministry Seeking “Maximum Punishment” for Prominent Human Rights Activist

Intelligence Ministry Seeking “Maximum Punishment” for Prominent Human Rights Activist

July 13, 2015

Narges Mohammadi Awaits Trial in Prison  The Intelligence Ministry has made a written request to impose the maximum punishment on human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, her husband Taghi Rahmani told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “Recently Ms. Mohammadi’s case file has ...

Parliamentary Bills Further Threaten Autonomy of Legal Profession in Iran

Parliamentary Bills Further Threaten Autonomy of Legal Profession in Iran

July 9, 2015

In an escalating war of words that reflects the long-running conflict between the Judiciary and lawyers over the legal profession’s independence in Iran, the Iranian Bar Association Union’s president, Bahman Keshavarz, reiterated in an interview with the official ISNA news service on June 21 that the ...

Citizens Angry that Government Backs Away from Supporting Women’s Attendance at Sport Stadiums

Citizens Angry that Government Backs Away from Supporting Women’s Attendance at Sport Stadiums

July 9, 2015

Administation Reverses Position and Caves in to Hardliners Rouhani’s Vice President for Women’s and Family Affairs, Shahindokht Molaverdi, has come under increasingly direct criticism by Iranian citizens after her flip-flops—and now backing away—from her earlier support for women’s attendance at sports events in Iran. Molaverdi, after forcefully advocating for ...

Baha’i Art Teacher Arrested in Front of His Students, No Charges Announced

Baha’i Art Teacher Arrested in Front of His Students, No Charges Announced

July 8, 2015

The Baha’i artist Shahriar Siroos was arrested by Intelligence Ministry agents on June 30 in Tehran and is being held at Evin Prison but the charges against him are not yet clear, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Siroos, 46, is a painter, ...

Activist Appeals Six-Year Prison Sentence for Her Membership in Peaceful Political Group 

July 4, 2015

Civil and political activist Minoo Mortazi Langroudi has launched an appeal against the six-year prison sentence she received for her peaceful activism. Ms. Langroudi was convicted on charges of disturbing national security and propaganda against ...

Campaign’s Five in the Afternoon Wins Major International Radio Award

Campaign’s Five in the Afternoon Wins Major International Radio Award

June 23, 2015

Human Rights Show Takes Silver Trophy at Prestigious NY Festival’s World’s Best Radio Programs Awards June 23, 2015—The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran’s weekly radio show, Five in the Afternoon, won a Silver Medal at the celebrated New York Festival International Radio ...

Rouhani Minister Expresses Outrage that Women Were Banned from Attending Iran-US Volleyball Match

June 23, 2015

Molaverdi Decries Hypocrisy of Policies toward Women on her Facebook Page Hours after women were denied entry to the volleyball game between Iran’s and the United States’ national teams on June 19, 2015 at Tehran's Azadi ...

High Hopes, Tempered Expectations: Views from Iran on the Nuclear Negotiations

High Hopes, Tempered Expectations: Views from Iran on the Nuclear Negotiations

June 21, 2015

Campaign Releases New Study on the Views of Civil Society in Iran June 22, 2015—Civil society in Iran remains steadfast and unequivocal in its support for the nuclear negotiations, and its members hope for an agreement that will end years of sanctions and isolation, according to this study. ...

Three Concerts Cancelled by Police and Judiciary despite Protests by Rouhani 

June 15, 2015

In his latest reaction to consecutive cancellations by the Iranian Police and the Judiciary of music concerts, President Hassan Rouhani condemned the cancellations and said such actions violate the people's rights. At a press conference marking the second anniversary of Rouhani's election to office, a ...

Cartoon 116: Nuclear Inspections and Human Rights

Cartoon 116: Nuclear Inspections and Human Rights

June 10, 2015

One of the conditions set for reaching a nuclear deal between the 5+1 countries and Iran is inspection of some of Iran's military facilities, an issue that has heightened sensitivity and opposition to ...

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