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Cartoon 64: The Actress and the Vote

Cartoon 64: The Actress and the Vote

October 29, 2013

On October 28, the mother of prominent actress Pegah Ahangarani told the Iranian Student News Agency that Ahangarani has been under a travel ban since 2011 and that Judge Moghiseh of a Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced her to 18 months in prison. While the details of her charges are unknown, Ahangarani was a public supporter ...

Repression Intensifies Despite Rouhani’s Promises

October 28, 2013

The Iranian Judiciary should immediately halt its new wave of repression of the media and civil society and stop its numerous rushed executions, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

Lab Tests Show Karroubi’s Health Seriously Deteriorating Under House Arrest

Lab Tests Show Karroubi’s Health Seriously Deteriorating Under House Arrest

October 22, 2013

Political dissident and 2009 presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who has been under extrajudicial house arrest since February 2011, is suffering from an alarmingly low level of vitamin D and osteoporosis, according to pathology laboratory test results the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has obtained. Considering his unfavorable health conditions, continuing his detention will ...

XIII International Human Rights Colloquium

XIII International Human Rights Colloquium

October 18, 2013

Over 100 human rights advocates from 40 countries are convening in São Paulo, Brazi, from October 12 to 19, to discuss “A New Global Order in Human Rights? Actors, Challenges and Opportunities” at the 13th International Human Rights Colloquium organized by Conectas Human Rights. This post will be updated regularly throughout the conference. ...

Mostafa Tajzadeh Faces New Charges in Prison

Mostafa Tajzadeh Faces New Charges in Prison

October 17, 2013

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Fakhrolsadat Mohtashamipour, wife of Mostafa Tajzadeh, prisoner of conscience and political activist, said that a new case has been opened and a new indictment issued for her husband, the content of which is as yet unknown to them. Fakhrolsadat Mohtashamipour said that the ...

New Details About The Kermanshah Raid

New Details About The Kermanshah Raid

October 15, 2013

Photo: Mehr News AgencyOn October 10, 2013 The Kermanshah IRGC (Nabi-e Akram) website reported that "a network of dozens of homosexuals and devil worshipers was destroyed in Kermanshah." ...

Soltani’s Wife Sentenced for Accepting Human Rights Award on his Behalf

Soltani’s Wife Sentenced for Accepting Human Rights Award on his Behalf

October 7, 2013

Massoumeh Dehghan, who has never had any political activities, was arrested and detained for six days in July 2011 on charges of traveling to Germany and receiving the Nuremberg Human Rights Award on behalf of her husband. Massoumeh ...

Journalist Issa Saharkhiz Released Two Months Prior to End of Sentence

Journalist Issa Saharkhiz Released Two Months Prior to End of Sentence

October 3, 2013

Imprisoned Iranian journalist, Issa Saharkhiz, was released on Thursday, October 3, only two months short of completing his prison sentence. “I was informed by my family that my father received his release letter sy the hospital. They will now have to complete his paperwork in order to take him home from the hospital,” his son, ...

Court Finalizes Six-year Sentence for Writing a Letter to Mohammad Khatami

Court Finalizes Six-year Sentence for Writing a Letter to Mohammad Khatami

October 2, 2013

Imprisoned lawyer Mohammad Seifzadeh appeared in court to defend himself against charges of “collusion and assembly against national security,” he wrote in a letter published September 29 on Kaleme website. Though judicial officials had told his family they planned on closing the case against him if he appeared in court, Seifzadeh wrote, the court appearance ...

Prisoners’ Release Welcomed Ahead of Rouhani UN Visit

Prisoners’ Release Welcomed Ahead of Rouhani UN Visit

September 18, 2013

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes the release today of several prisoners of conscience in Iran, including lawyer and human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani should continue to take concrete steps towards improving the urgent human rights situation in his country as he prepares to address the United Nations, ...

Starred Students Face Reprieve

Starred Students Face Reprieve

September 18, 2013

Iran’s Ministry of Science announced yesterday that Iran’s most recent “starred students” can enroll in universities. “Starred students” are university students who, over the past eight years, were banned from continuing their higher education as a result of their student and/or political activities, or their religion. According to Shargh Newspaper, the Ministry of Science has ...

Iran’s New Security Council Secretary Should End Illegal House Arrests

Iran’s New Security Council Secretary Should End Illegal House Arrests

September 13, 2013

The newly appointed Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, should immediately review the situation of the opposition leaders under house arrest and prepare for their release, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

House of Cinema Reopens in Tehran

House of Cinema Reopens in Tehran

September 12, 2013

Following a bitter struggle during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s tenure culminating in its closure, Iran’s House of Cinema reopened today in Tehran, with hundreds of jubilant cinema folks in attendance. The reopening was welcomed by many who see it as delivery on one of the many promises Hassan Rouhani made during his presidential election campaign. ...

Intelligence Ministry Interrogates Mourning Mother

Intelligence Ministry Interrogates Mourning Mother

September 10, 2013

Human rights activist Mansoureh Behkish, several of whose family members were executed by the Islamic Republic in the 1980s, was summoned to Intelligence Ministry again on Wednesday, August 26, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. She has been summoned to the Intelligence Ministry several times in the past. ...

Imprisoned Blogger’s Mother on Hunger Strike to Protest Prison Treatment

Imprisoned Blogger’s Mother on Hunger Strike to Protest Prison Treatment

August 26, 2013

The mother of Hossein Ronaghi Maleki embarked on a hunger strike on Tuesday, August 20, to protest the situation of her son inside Evin Prison. “Hossein is not well in prison. He has been on hunger strike for 14 days. He has lost weight and has stomach and kidney bleeding. The Prosecutor said that he ...

Cartoon 58: Bugged and Under Surveillance

Cartoon 58: Bugged and Under Surveillance

August 23, 2013

Throughout the 35 years since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, there have been numerous accounts of phone tapping and surveillance of dissident, opposition, civil society, and public figures, journalists and activists and even celebrities, by Iranian officials who have used the information to coerce, pressure, and intimidate citizens to conform, to become ...

Podcast 61: Steve Crawshaw on Small Acts of Resistance

Podcast 61: Steve Crawshaw on Small Acts of Resistance

August 23, 2013

“When people tell you that nothing will ever really change, just remember that however clever and intelligent they sound, they have kind of been proved wrong on many occasions in the past,” Steve Crawshaw, co-author of Small Acts of Resistance, tells us. ...

Fulfilling Promises: A Human Rights Roadmap for Rouhani

Fulfilling Promises: A Human Rights Roadmap for Rouhani

August 21, 2013

During his 2013 presidential campaign, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani promised to uphold the “rights of the people” enumerated in the country’s constitution. Millions of his supporters demanded social and political rights, including the release of political prisoners from prison and house arrest. In ...

Rouhani Should Honor Voters’ Demand for Human Rights

Rouhani Should Honor Voters’ Demand for Human Rights

August 21, 2013

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani should take concrete steps to curb widespread human rights abuses by the government of Iran and reinstate the rule of law in the country, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

Iranian Civil Society Asks Obama to Remove Crippling Sanctions

Iranian Civil Society Asks Obama to Remove Crippling Sanctions

August 20, 2013

A group of Iranian political and human rights activists, academics, and students inside and outside Iran wrote a letter this week to US President Barack Obama asking him to engage with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to “work towards the elimination of sanctions and the lowering of tensions between Iran and the United States.” The letter ...

Sick Prisoner of Conscience Begins Hunger Strike

Sick Prisoner of Conscience Begins Hunger Strike

August 15, 2013

Prisoner of conscience Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been on a hunger strike since Sunday, August 11, to protest the prison authorities’ lack of attention to his and other sick prisoners’ conditions, and to support Abolfazl Abedini, a prisoner on hunger strike since July 28. Ronaghi’s mother expressed concern about her son’s hunger strike and told ...

Imprisoned in the Hospital: Issa Saharkhiz Remains in Limbo

Imprisoned in the Hospital: Issa Saharkhiz Remains in Limbo

August 15, 2013

Eighteen months since imprisoned journalist Issa Saharkhiz was transferred to a hospital for severe health issues, Iranian officials have yet to excuse him from serving his sentence or to release him on furlough, causing him to remain a prisoner in the hospital, his son told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

More Christian Converts Arrested in Tehran and Isfahan

More Christian Converts Arrested in Tehran and Isfahan

August 15, 2013

Several individuals were arrested during a raid on a house church in Western Tehran late last week, a source informed about the recent arrests of Christian converts in Tehran told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Four of the detainees are Parham Farazmand, Sara Sardsirian, Sedigheh Kiani, and Mona Fazli. ...

Cartoon 57: Elham Aminzadeh, Rouhani’s VP for Legal Affairs

Cartoon 57: Elham Aminzadeh, Rouhani’s VP for Legal Affairs

August 14, 2013

On August 11, President Hassan Rouhani appointed Elham Aminzadeh to the post of Vice President for Legal Affairs, touting her “scientific, legal, and legislative qualifications and credentials.” Though some activists have welcomed her appointment after much criticism of Rouhani’s all-male cabinet, many are concerned about her history of denying human rights abuses. ...

Podcast 60: Sahar Delijani’s Children of the Jacaranda Tree

Podcast 60: Sahar Delijani’s Children of the Jacaranda Tree

August 9, 2013

Children of the Jacaranda Tree, by Sahar Delijani, is a stunning debut novel set in post-Revolutionary Iran. Told in interconnected, alternating perspectives, the book follows three generations of men and women, some linked by family, others brought together by the tide of history that forces its way into their lives. ...

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