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Culture Minister Asks Judiciary to Provide More Freedom of Expression

Culture Minister Asks Judiciary to Provide More Freedom of Expression

January 15, 2014

Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati publicly stated that the Iranian Judiciary should join the Rouhani administration in providing more freedom of expression to Iranian media and artists, drawing strong criticism from Iran’s Prosecutor General and Spokesperson for the Judiciary Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehi for his remarks to Al Jazeera. ...

Rouhani’s Citizenship Rights Charter Contradicts Constitution, Says Iranian Lawyer

Rouhani’s Citizenship Rights Charter Contradicts Constitution, Says Iranian Lawyer

January 9, 2014

In an exclusive interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, lawyer and human rights activist Mehrangiz Kar analyzed the various problems with the draft Citizenship Rights Charter presented by Hassan Rouhani last November, saying it is a “hodge podge of things” that both repeats and contradicts the Constitution, and it needs a ...

Basij Commander Admits Forces Shot at 2009 Protesters

Basij Commander Admits Forces Shot at 2009 Protesters

January 6, 2014

After more than four years of denying that Basij and other security forces took direct shots at the 2009 post-election protesters, last week’s statements by the unnamed Commander of District 117-Neynava of IRGC’s Tehran Region, admitting for the first time that the men on top of a Basij base in Tehran shot at the protesters, ...

Intelligence Ministry May Be More “Flexible” in Respecting Human Rights, Says Lawyer

Intelligence Ministry May Be More “Flexible” in Respecting Human Rights, Says Lawyer

January 3, 2014

Ghasem Sholeh Sadi, lawyer and former Member of the Parliament and political prisoner, told the International Campaign for Human Rights that he is somewhat optimistic about the consequences of the draft Citizenship Rights Charter presented by President Hassan Rouhani in November. ...

Rights Lawyer Says Iran Needs Existing Laws Enforced, not a New Charter

Rights Lawyer Says Iran Needs Existing Laws Enforced, not a New Charter

January 3, 2014

Lawyer and member of the Defenders of Human Rights Center Mahnaz Parakand discussed necessary steps for implementing human rights protections in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “Before thinking to design a Citizenship Rights Charter, we must implement the Iranian Constitution, even with all its shortcomings. Many of the articles ...

Rights Lawyer Says Citizenship Rights Charter Is “Distraction”

Rights Lawyer Says Citizenship Rights Charter Is “Distraction”

January 3, 2014

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, lawyer Khalil Bahramian, who has represented many political prisoners, said the draft Citizenship Rights Charter is just a distraction for the public. ...

Rouhani Delivered on Rights Charter Promise “Immediately,” but Issue Is with Implementation, Says Lawyer

Rouhani Delivered on Rights Charter Promise “Immediately,” but Issue Is with Implementation, Says Lawyer

January 2, 2014

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, lawyer Farideh Gheirat said that the draft Citizenship Rights Charter presented by Hassan Rouhani in November is almost exactly like the Iranian Constitution in substance, just with different phrasing. Gheirat added that there was no need to draft a new Charter that was ...

Guardian Council May Approve Citizenship Rights Charter, Says Lawyer

Guardian Council May Approve Citizenship Rights Charter, Says Lawyer

January 2, 2014

President Hassan Rouhani’s draft Citizenship Rights Charter, currently before the Guardian Council, may win approval, lawyer and head of the National Iranian Bar Associations Union Bahman Keshavarz told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Prominent Activist Cites Numerous Omissions in Citizen Rights Charter

Prominent Activist Cites Numerous Omissions in Citizen Rights Charter

December 31, 2013

In a interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Narges Mohammadi, human rights activist and spokesperson for the Defenders of Human Rights Center, acknowledged that the Citizen Rights Charter was a positive step, but noted that the draft document contained many serious shortcomings that needed to be addressed. ...

Draft Citizenship Charter Will Allow Continued Rights Violations say Human Rights Groups

Draft Citizenship Charter Will Allow Continued Rights Violations say Human Rights Groups

December 27, 2013

In a letter addressed to Hassan Rouhani, Iran's President, Human Rights Watch and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expressed appreciation for the draft Citizenship Rights Charter, but expressed deep concern over the ...

Cartoon 72: Collective Punishment

Cartoon 72: Collective Punishment

December 22, 2013

The wife and the mother of an exiled political prisoner died in a car crash as they were on their way back from visiting their relative in Masjed-e Soleyman Prison. Nahid Rahmani, mother, and Ziba Sadeghzadeh, wife, of Amir Reza (Payman) Arefi, were returning from their monthly trip to Masjed-e-Soleyman (500 miles southwest of Tehran), ...

Ebadi: Citizenship Charter Is Redundant Distraction from Justice

Ebadi: Citizenship Charter Is Redundant Distraction from Justice

December 19, 2013

Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate and human rights lawyer, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran in an exclusive interview that the draft Citizenship Rights Charter published by Hassan Rouhani in November to solicit input from analysts is redundant and ineffectual, and “is in fact a tool to distract those who ...

Cartoon 70: The Judiciary and Execution

Cartoon 70: The Judiciary and Execution

December 13, 2013

The Head of Iran's Judiciary Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, speaking about human rights earlier this week on Human Rights Day, said, "As I've said before, many of the issues raised on the pretext of human rights, including opposing the death penalty, are in fact ...

Head of Judiciary Challenges Human Rights

Head of Judiciary Challenges Human Rights

December 12, 2013

On the occasion of Human Rights Day, the Head of Iran’s Judiciary Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani told high-ranking Judiciary officials yesterday, “The Judiciary will not take notice of irrational words and lies and will resolutely continue its work, because we believe that the highest human rights values are recognized in Islam.” ...

Podcast 63: Ramin Jahanbegloo on a Culture of Nonviolence

Podcast 63: Ramin Jahanbegloo on a Culture of Nonviolence

December 10, 2013

“Capital punishment itself is a form of premeditated murder,” Ramin Jahanbegloo tells us in today’s podcast. Today we discuss a culture of violence that’s become deeply entrenched in Iranian society. State violence in the form of inhumane executions, cruel and unusual punishments, brutality in response to public dissent, and ill treatment and torture throughout the ...

Sattar Beheshti Murder Case Closed

Sattar Beheshti Murder Case Closed

December 6, 2013

A Tehran court has closed the case against the interrogator accused of murdering blogger Sattar Beheshti, determining it was not murder but rather “quasi-murder.” Gohar Eshghi, Beheshti’s mother, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she is protesting the court’s decision to dismiss the murder charges in the case of her son’s ...

Kurdish Sunni Prisoners in Critical Health After 30 Days on Hunger Strike

Kurdish Sunni Prisoners in Critical Health After 30 Days on Hunger Strike

December 5, 2013

Six Kurdish Sunni prisoners on death rowat Ghezel Hessar Prison in Karaj have been on a hunger strike since Monday, November 4, a human rights activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Hamed Ahmadi, Kamal Molaei, Jamshid Dehghnai, Jahangir Dehghani, Seyed Hadi Hossein, and Seddigh Mohammadi, all being kept in Unit 3 ...

Podcast 62: Persis Karim on Literature of the Iranian Diaspora

Podcast 62: Persis Karim on Literature of the Iranian Diaspora

December 4, 2013

In today’s podcast, Persis Karim talks about the literature of the Iranian diaspora and the creative restrictions on writers within Iran. ...

Cartoon 68: Chain Murders: 15 Years Later

Cartoon 68: Chain Murders: 15 Years Later

November 25, 2013

Fifteen years after the chain murders of Iran, which began with the killings of Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar, their daughter Parastou Forouhar hoped to hold a memorial ceremony at her house in Tehran this week. The Iranian authorities, however, prevented people from entering her home, even blocking the street. ...

Police Commander and Former Detainee Divulge Details About Kahrizak

Police Commander and Former Detainee Divulge Details About Kahrizak

November 22, 2013

In a November 18 interview with semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Iran’s Police Commander Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam shared unprecedented insights into several different human rights issues that over the past few years have faced the Iranian authorities, and specifically the Iranian police. ...

Mansour Farhang: Zarif and the Pursuit of Rights and Respect (Commentary)

Mansour Farhang: Zarif and the Pursuit of Rights and Respect (Commentary)

November 22, 2013

Mr. Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, has produced a YouTube video in which he asks all countries, particularly his negotiating partners in Geneva, to trust the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program. To the extent that this appeal is viewed as public diplomacy intended to facilitate a negotiated settlement of the nuclear dispute, his initiative ...

Police Shoot and Kill Two Kurdish Citizens, Injure a Third

Police Shoot and Kill Two Kurdish Citizens, Injure a Third

November 20, 2013

In the week between November 8 and November 15, Iranian police killed two Kurdish citizens in the border region areas of Nosood in Kermanshah Province and Baneh in Kurdistan Province, allegedly as part of an effort to fight the smuggling of goods. Some residents of the region have expressed their outrage by closing their businesses, ...

UN Shows Strong Support for Human Rights in Iran with 83-to-36 Vote

UN Shows Strong Support for Human Rights in Iran with 83-to-36 Vote

November 19, 2013

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes the United Nations General Assembly’s Third Committee vote today overwhelmingly supporting human rights in Iran, and urges the Iranian government to comply with UN human rights mechanisms and take concrete steps to address the ongoing violations in the country. ...

25 NGOs Urge UN Third Committee to Pass Iran Human Rights Resolution

25 NGOs Urge UN Third Committee to Pass Iran Human Rights Resolution

November 15, 2013

As the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee prepares to vote on the resolution on the promotion and protection of human rights in Iran, 25 human rights organizations have joined together to urge member states to vote in favor of the resolution. ...

Newly Disclosed Medical Examiner Report Confirms Sattar Beheshti Died of Internal Bleeding

Newly Disclosed Medical Examiner Report Confirms Sattar Beheshti Died of Internal Bleeding

November 11, 2013

The Medical Examiner’s report on the cause of death for Sattar Beheshti, a blogger killed during interrogations in a police detention center in November 2012, states that Beheshti died from internal bleeding, hemorrhaging in his lungs, liver, kidneys, and brain, a source with knowledge of the case told the International Campaign for Human Rights in ...

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