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Foreign Dignitaries Attending Rouhani’s Inauguration Should Demand Visit to Detained Opposition Leaders

Foreign Dignitaries Attending Rouhani’s Inauguration Should Demand Visit to Detained Opposition Leaders

July 31, 2013

Foreign dignitaries invited to attend the inauguration of Iran’s president-elect, Hassan Rouhani, should use the occasion to demand a visit to opposition leaders under house arrest, and publicly call for their immediate release, the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

Supreme Court Upholds Execution Sentence for Four Ahvazis

Supreme Court Upholds Execution Sentence for Four Ahvazis

July 26, 2013

With the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the death sentences of four young Arab men from Ahvaz on charges of “moharebeh” (enmity with God) and “corruption on earth,” the prisoners are currently in danger of imminent execution at Karoon Prison in Ahvaz. The four Arab citizens and their families were informed of the Supreme Court’s ...

Three Ahvazi Activists Held Under Ambiguous Conditions

Three Ahvazi Activists Held Under Ambiguous Conditions

July 25, 2013

Since the arrests of several Khuzestan Province civil activists in Ahvaz in April, no information has been available on the conditions of Adel Seymari, Majid Bavi, and Mohammad Jaberi, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

IRGC and Prosecutor’s Office Delay Prisoner’s Hospitalization

IRGC and Prosecutor’s Office Delay Prisoner’s Hospitalization

July 24, 2013

The IRGC and the Tehran Prosecutor have postponed transferring prisoner of conscience Feizollah Arabsorkhi to the hospital for months, his wife told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. He is in dire health, and has received official approval to go to the hospital, but officials continue to delay the transfer. ...

Kurdish Prisoner Transferred from Rajaee Shahr Prison to Orumiyeh Central Prison

Kurdish Prisoner Transferred from Rajaee Shahr Prison to Orumiyeh Central Prison

July 23, 2013

Ahmad Tamouee, a Kurdish political prisoner at Rajaee Shahr Prison, ended an illegal exile this week when he was first summoned by the Sentence Enforcement Unit and then transferred to Orumiyeh Prison on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 17, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Kurdish Lawyer Charged with Support of Kurdish Parties and Contacting UN

Kurdish Lawyer Charged with Support of Kurdish Parties and Contacting UN

July 15, 2013

After 37 days of lawyer Massoud Shamsinejad’s detention, Branch 5 of Orumiyeh Special Crimes Courts informed him of political charges against him, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Shamsinejad, an Orumiyeh lawyer who has represented many Kurdish political prisoners, has been charged with “supporting Kurdish parties,” “contacting foreign media,” ...

No Information About Christian Converts, Continued Pressure on Members of Evangelical Churches

No Information About Christian Converts, Continued Pressure on Members of Evangelical Churches

July 8, 2013

One month after the arrest of three Christian converts in Isfahan, their conditions remain unknown and there is no news about their fate. According to reports from the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran’s sources, since the May 29 arrests of Mohammad Reza Farid, Saeed Safi, and Hamid Reza Ghadiri, their families have been ...

Security Forces Transfer Mousavi to Hospital Twice in 24 Hours, But Refuse Hospitalization

Security Forces Transfer Mousavi to Hospital Twice in 24 Hours, But Refuse Hospitalization

July 3, 2013

Over the past 24 hours, Mir Hossein Mousavi was transferred twice to the Tehran Heart Center. According to Kaleme website, after a two-month delay, on Tuesday, July 2, Mir Hossein Mousavi was transferred to the Tehran Heart Center for some medical tests. The Committee of Human Rights Reporters reported that Mousavi was again transferred to ...

Lawyers Say Bill on Legal Profession Destroys Lawyer Independence

Lawyers Say Bill on Legal Profession Destroys Lawyer Independence

July 3, 2013

During his last days as president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered the Cabinet to eliminate and archive the General Bill on the Legal Profession. This decision faced sharp criticism from the Head of the Judiciary, though it pleased many lawyers who have been critical of the bill. Three Iranian lawyers spoke with the International Campaign for Human ...

Astonishment at Kahrizak Ruling: Mortazavi Sentenced to $60 Fine and Five Years’ Dismissal From Government Jobs

Astonishment at Kahrizak Ruling: Mortazavi Sentenced to $60 Fine and Five Years’ Dismissal From Government Jobs

July 3, 2013

A lower court ruling in the Kahrizak case issued yesterday indicates that the three suspects in the case were permanently dismissed from judicial positions, and further dismissed from government employment for five years. To the astonishment of observers, Saeed Mortazavi, the prime suspect in the case, was acquitted from the charge of “participation in murder,” ...

Activist Given Six-Year Sentence and Exiled to Bandar Abbas

Activist Given Six-Year Sentence and Exiled to Bandar Abbas

June 26, 2013

Political activist Saeed Madani has been sentenced to six years in prison in exile in Bandar Abbas. Mansoureh Ettefagh, the wife of the social researcher and visiting professor, expressed shock at the harsh sentence and the charges themselves in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Journalist Completes Prison Sentence, Sotoudeh Released on 4-day Furlough

Journalist Completes Prison Sentence, Sotoudeh Released on 4-day Furlough

June 26, 2013

Imprisoned lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh was released from Evin Prison on furlough on Sunday, June 23. Journalist Jila Baniyaghoub was also released from Evin Prison on the same day after completing her one-year prison sentence. ...

Four Years Later, Still No Justice for Neda’s Murder

Four Years Later, Still No Justice for Neda’s Murder

June 24, 2013

On the fourth anniversary of the death of Neda Agha Soltan in the aftermath of the 2009 presidential elections, her mother told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “There was supposed to be a court trial held, but in the past four years there hasn’t been a trial. The case file is still ...

Election Day: Iranian Citizens’ Street Observations

Election Day: Iranian Citizens’ Street Observations

June 14, 2013

While the polls were open in Iran, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran spoke to four voters about their votes, the state of the polling stations, and their expectations for the election. ...

Election Day: News Networks Blocked, Campaign Workers Limited, Universities Closed

Election Day: News Networks Blocked, Campaign Workers Limited, Universities Closed

June 14, 2013

As Iranians cast their votes for president today, authorities are blocking foreign Persian-language television stations, shutting down university campuses, and denying permissions and visas to some poll workers and foreign reporters. ...

Iran Accelerates Crackdown on Media and Dissidents Prior to Election

Iran Accelerates Crackdown on Media and Dissidents Prior to Election

June 10, 2013

Iranian authorities should immediately stop censoring newspapers and news websites, arresting political activists, and muzzling foreign journalists within the country, ahead of the June 14 presidential election, the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

Iran’s Oldest Protestant Church Shut Down by Intelligence Ministry, Pastor Transferred to Evin Prison

Iran’s Oldest Protestant Church Shut Down by Intelligence Ministry, Pastor Transferred to Evin Prison

June 4, 2013

Mansour Borji, an advocate for Iranian Christians, told the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the oldest Persian-language Protestant church of Iran, the Central Assemblies of God in Tehran, was shut down on May 26 due to pressure from intelligence forces, and one of the church’s pastors has been transferred to Evin Prison. ...

US Lifting of Tech Sanctions Welcomed

US Lifting of Tech Sanctions Welcomed

June 3, 2013

The Campaign welcomes the Obama administration’s positive step towards facilitating access to information in Iran, and calls on the administration to follow through with legal financial channels for Iranians to access the communications tools. ...

UN Experts Decry Discrimination Against Women Candidates, Imprisonment of Journalists

UN Experts Decry Discrimination Against Women Candidates, Imprisonment of Journalists

May 29, 2013

In a statement released today, five United Nations human rights experts warned that Iran is seriously violating international law by its continued discrimination against women presidential candidates and the ongoing suppression of the press, as well as its violations of freedoms of association and assembly. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes the ...

Student Activist Forcefully Arrested to Serve Prison Sentence

Student Activist Forcefully Arrested to Serve Prison Sentence

May 29, 2013

Security forces stormed the home of Ashkan Zahabian, a former Mashhad University student and member of the Daftar Tahkim Vahdat Student Organization General Council, arrested him, and transferred him to Babol’s Mati Kola Prison on May 27, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. According to the source, the security forces ...

Increased IRGC Forces Create Security State Atmosphere in Border Regions

Increased IRGC Forces Create Security State Atmosphere in Border Regions

May 23, 2013

At least 100 new IRGC forces have been stationed in the Kurdish border regions in Western Iran in recent weeks, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The forces are engaged in patrolling the area and setting up inspection posts, which have limited local traffic into the mountain regions, as ...

HOPE Concert for the Iranian People To Be Held in Berlin

HOPE Concert for the Iranian People To Be Held in Berlin

May 22, 2013

On June 7, Iranian-American journalist and peace activist Roxana Saberi, who was arrested in Iran in 2009 and freed after international outcry, will present the HOPE Concert at the Velodrom in Berlin in worldwide support for the Iranian people. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes this opportunity to raise awareness of the ...

Security Forces and Police Vehicles Increase Monitoring in Tehran

Security Forces and Police Vehicles Increase Monitoring in Tehran

May 22, 2013

One day after the names of Iranian presidential candidates were announced by the Guardian Council, there was a tense security atmosphere in several areas of Tehran on May 22, following news of the disqualification of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei as candidates, several eyewitnesses told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Presidential Candidate Brags About His Direct Role in Violence and Repression

Presidential Candidate Brags About His Direct Role in Violence and Repression

May 16, 2013

(May 16, 2013) The international community should immediately institute a travel ban and asset freeze against Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, the current mayor of Tehran and a contender in the upcoming presidential election, due to his extensive role in gross human rights violations, the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

400 Candidates Disqualified for City Councils in Iran, 90 of them in Tehran

400 Candidates Disqualified for City Councils in Iran, 90 of them in Tehran

May 15, 2013

Hossein Tala, Head of the High Elections Oversight Committee for Islamic Tehran Province City and Village Councils told Iranian Students News Agency(ISNA) that so far, 90 candidates who have been disqualified in the City of Tehran and 311 disqualified candidates from towns have filed grievances about the vetting process. ...

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