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Sit-in by Political Prisoner’s Mother to Protest Lack of Due Process
The mother of Ghoncheh Ghavami, a prisoner on hunger strike since October 1, has started a sit-in outside Evin Prison to protest her daughter’s detention for more than 100 days without access to her lawyer. “Today is one hundred days since my daughter’s arrest. None of the authorities seem to have heard us during this ...
Cartoon 93: Rouhani in New York
As Iranian President Hassan Rouhani prepares to come to New York next week to attend the UN General Assembly and other meetings, there is a lot of anticipation for how he would answer questions in the US media interviews that aim to polish the ...
Happy Video Youths Receive Suspended Flogging and Prison Sentences
The youths involved in the making of the “Happy in Tehran” dance video set to Pharrell Williams hit song “Happy” have all been sentenced, receiving suspended sentences of 91 lashes and six months in prison, with the exception of Reyhaneh Taravati, who received a suspended twelve-month prison sentence in addition to the suspended lashes, provided ...
More Than Two Months in Solitary Confinement for Protesting Exclusion of Women in Stadium
A young woman’s detention in solitary confinement continues after her June 30, 2014 arrest, following her earlier arrest and release outside a Tehran sports stadium when she tried to attend a volleyball game. Ghoncheh Ghavami’s lawyer, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaee, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he is unaware of his client’s ...
Imprisoned Baha’is Refused Early Release Unless They Repent
Three imprisoned Baha’is have been refused early release and furlough to visit their small children unless they recant their faith and pledge not to teach at the Baha’i university, a relative told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...
Gender Segregation Violates the Rights of Women in Iran
Morteza Talai, Deputy Chairperson of the Tehran City Council Commentary by Leila Mouri* The recent sharp exchange during a press conference between Morteza Talai, Deputy Chairperson of the Tehran City Council, ...
Five Thousand Mine Workers Strike in Protest against Arrest of Strikers
In an increasingly tense and prolonged stand-off between striking miners, the Bafgh Iron Ore Mines, and judicial officials, which originally began in May 2014 over plans to privatize the mine, a new round of strikes at the mines began on August 19 over the arrests of some of the strikers, reportedly involving some 5000 miners, ...
“Happy” Video Participants to Go on Trial in September
The youths involved in making the “Happy in Tehran” dance video will be collectively put on trial on September 9, 2014, a source informed the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...
Three Years after Representing American Hikers, Lawyer is Still Not Allowed to Work or Travel
The prominent human rights activist and lawyer Massoud Shafiee, who represented three American hikers detained in Iran in 2009, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that since the hikers left Iran, he has been summoned and interrogated several times, and has been kept from finding new clients or traveling abroad. ...
Journalist Sentenced to Six Years in Prison after Returning to Iran
Mirdamadi has been held in solitary confinement in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards' Ward 2-A at Evin Prison since May 10, 2014. Journalist, political activist, and close relative of ...
Raid Leaves Arrested Washington Post Journalist’s Home “Looking Like a Scene from Hell”
Jason Rezaian, Yeganeh Salehi, and a photographer were arrested in Tehran on the night of July 22, 2014, after their homes were raided by security forces. The agents also confiscated their personal belongings, including laptops, books, and notes, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...
Revolutionary Court Sentences Fifteen Baha’is to Prison on Baseless Charges
A Revolutionary Court has sentenced fifteen Baha’is to between 1.5 and 3.5 years in prison on charges of “propaganda against the state” and “assembly and collusion against national security,” but their lawyer told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that there is no evidence in their case files to support these charges. Giti ...
Baha’i to Begin One-Year Prison Sentence for Practicing His Faith
A Baha’i man, Sarang Ettehadi, has been summoned to begin serving his one-year prison sentence on charges of “propaganda against the state through participation in Baha’i worship and prayer groups.” Ettehadi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he had been instructed via a telephone call from the Evin Prison Courts on ...
New Study Shows Leading Iranian Figures Support Nuclear Negotiations
July 16, 2014— In a study released by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran today, Voices from Iran: Strong Support for the Nuclear Negotiations, prominent members of Iranian civil society expressed their strong support for the P5+1 nuclear negotiations between Iran and the world powers. ...
Voices from Iran: Strong Support for the Nuclear Negotiations
As this study demonstrates, leading Iranian civil society figures support the P5+1 nuclear negotiations and hope for a successful deal. No one can presume that such a deal will automatically lead to improvements in human rights and civil liberties in Iran. Yet the perpetuation of tensions over the nuclear file is likely to result in ...
Prominent Rights Defender Faces New Charges for Her Meeting with Ashton
Narges Mohammadi, the prominent human rights defender and Deputy Head of the now-shuttered Defenders of Human Rights Center in Tehran, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that new charges have been brought against her stemming from her March 8, 2014 meeting with the EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. ...
Filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi Begins 5-Year Sentence on Baseless Charges
On Saturday, June 7, 2014, Iranian documentary filmmaker and women’s rights activist Mahnaz Mohammadi began serving her five-year prison sentence on security charges of “assembly and collusion against national security,” and “propaganda against the state.” ...
Iran’s IRGC Commander Admits to Interference in 2009 Election
In a newly released video, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Ali Jaafari, in a speech to an audience which appears to be composed of Guard commanders, details the role of the Guards in the 2009 presidential election and the subsequent violent crackdown of the post-election protest movement. ...
Youths Arrested for “Happy” Video Released on Bail
The six young men and women who danced to Pharrell Williams’ hit song “Happy” in a video that went viral on YouTube, and werearrested for it, were released on bail today, one day later. However, the director of the video, Sassan Soleimani, remains detained. ...
Labor Activists Remain in Prison for May Day Gathering
Two leading workers’ rights activists, arrested by security forces in Tehran at an International Labor Day gathering on May 1, 2014, remain in prison. ...
Mousavi Medical Condition Called “Alarming” by Daughter
“The family is in complete darkness about my father’s physical conditions and not even allowed a telephone call with him…My father’s health conditions are alarming,” wrote Narges Mousavi, daughter of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the opposition leader who was abruptly hospitalized for emergency heart surgery on April 29, 2014, in her Facebook page. ...
Detained Opposition Leader Mousavi Undergoes Emergency Heart Procedure
On Tuesday, April 29, 2014, an emergency heart procedure was carried out on Mir Hossein Mousavi, the opposition leader who has been held under house arrest for three years, without the prior knowledge and consent of his family. ...
Detained Opposition Leader Mousavi Rushed to Hospital
Former presidential candidate and opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, who has been held extra-judicially under house arrest for more than three years, was taken to hospital today for urgent heart complications, according to reports from Iran that the Campaign has independently confirmed. ...
Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Summoned to Intelligence Ministry
A few days after a video was posted on YouTube, showing a short speech by human rights lawyer and former prisoner of conscience Nasrin Sotoudeh, she was summoned to the Intelligence Ministry while on a family holiday, according to her husband Reza Khandan’s Facebook page. Also according to Khandan’s next status update on Facebook, Sotoudeh ...