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Raid Leaves Arrested Washington Post Journalist’s Home “Looking Like a Scene from Hell”

Raid Leaves Arrested Washington Post Journalist’s Home “Looking Like a Scene from Hell”

July 25, 2014

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

Revolutionary Court Sentences Fifteen Baha’is to Prison on Baseless Charges

July 18, 2014

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

Baha’i to Begin One-Year Prison Sentence for Practicing His Faith

July 17, 2014

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

New Study Shows Leading Iranian Figures Support Nuclear Negotiations

July 15, 2014

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

Voices from Iran: Strong Support for the Nuclear Negotiations

July 15, 2014

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

Prominent Rights Defender Faces New Charges for Her Meeting with Ashton

June 11, 2014

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

Filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi Begins 5-Year Sentence on Baseless Charges

June 11, 2014

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

Iran’s IRGC Commander Admits to Interference in 2009 Election

June 4, 2014

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

Youths Arrested for “Happy” Video Released on Bail

May 21, 2014

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

Labor Activists Remain in Prison for May Day Gathering

May 7, 2014

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

Mousavi Medical Condition Called “Alarming” by Daughter

May 7, 2014

“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

Detained Opposition Leader Mousavi Undergoes Emergency Heart Procedure

April 30, 2014

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

Detained Opposition Leader Mousavi Rushed to Hospital

April 29, 2014

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

March 31, 2014

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 ...

Hundreds of Lawyers Advocate on Behalf of Imprisoned Dervish Lawyers

March 27, 2014

In two separate letters addressed to Head of the Iranian Judiciary Sadegh Larijani, Iranian lawyers have asked him for his immediate review of the judicial violations in the cases of the imprisoned Dervish lawyers. In two separate ...

Brazil Should Support the Struggle of Iranian Trade Unionists (By Mansour Osanlou)

Brazil Should Support the Struggle of Iranian Trade Unionists (By Mansour Osanlou)

March 25, 2014

As an Iranian labor activist, I have always looked for models that my country can follow to improve. Striking a balance between worker rights, economic developments, international trade, and vital social-programs is indeed no easy task, especially for countries with troubled pasts. ...

UN Members Strongly Criticize Executions and Lack of Basic Freedoms in Iran

March 17, 2014

At Monday’s meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed presented his report on the situation of human rights in Iran. Following his presentation, representatives of member countries, NGOs, and the Iranian delegation offered their responses. ...

Shaheed Tells the UN Rights Council Deep Reforms Needed

March 17, 2014

“In order to progress, we must admit that despite existing laws or policies, violations are occurring. And while I can appreciate the possibility that death sentences may not be the first choice of punishment for judges, ...

Activist Who Met With Ashton Decries Defamation by Hardliners

March 15, 2014

Mohammadi told the Campaign, "I have held a pen in my hand for 20 years but never a gun… I strongly deny these false allegations and confidently ...

“Personal attacks on UN Officials Show Iranians Not Free to Express Opinions,” Says Ahmed Shaheed

March 15, 2014

Ahmed Shaheed asked the Iranian Government to allow him to visit the country so that he can have discussions with the government and the civil society in ...

Abdollah Momeni Released After Completing Five Year Term Without Furlough

March 14, 2014

Photo from Mr. Momeni's Facebook page shows him among friends and family immediately after release on March 13, 2014. Abdollah Momeni, former Spokesperson for the nationwide Iranian alumni association, Advar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat, was released from prison ...

Human Rights Activist Rejects Criticism of her Meeting with Ashton

March 14, 2014

"I and a number of women's rights activists were formally invited," to meet Ashton, Mohammadi said. "I saw nothing wrong with the invitation and therefore I accepted it. But what I don't understand is all the criticism accusing me of ...

UN Rapporteur Slams Iran for Lack of Judiciary Independence and Execution Surge

March 13, 2014

For his research the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran interviewed more than 130 individuals in Iran and outside Iran who provided testimonies about human rights abuses, and received written reports from human rights organizations about the situation of the ...

Joint Letter on Iran to the Human Rights Council

March 13, 2014

Support Resolution to Renew the Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran. March 12, 2014 To: Member States of the Human Rights Council Your Excellency, We, the undersigned human rights and civil society groups, are writing to urge your government ...

Protesting Dervishes Beaten and Detained

Protesting Dervishes Beaten and Detained

March 11, 2014

Security agents and police verbally and physically assaulted Gonabadi dervishes before arresting them for their protest gathering outside the Judiciary in Tehran, a protesting dervish told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

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