Two years after the death of Haleh Sahabi at her father’s funeral, a Tehran Court has declared she died of “natural causes” and closed the investigation. In an interview with Rooz Online, Sahabi’s husband stated that the court refused to review films and photographs pertaining to the incident despite the court testimonies of four eye ...
(March 22, 2013) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 26 to 2 vote to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran for the third consecutive year. The Campaign also urged Iranian authorities to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur ...
In an oral statement delivered to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) expressed extreme concern “at the rampant culture of impunity and lack of accountability that protects and encourages acts of torture” in Iran. The statement, delivered March 12, 2013, ...
As Iranians around the world prepare to celebrate the new year, hundreds of prisoners of conscience remain behind bars in Iran. The Persian New Year, Nowruz, is the most important holiday in Iran, beginning at the moment of the vernal equinox. While the news website Kaleme reports that a dozen political prisoners have been granted ...
This week, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran joined 16 other human rights organizations in a joint letter asking the United Nations Human Rights Council to renew the mandate Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed. ...
The present report is the second to be submitted to the Human Rights Council, pursuant to Council resolution 16/9, and communicates developments in the human rights situation of the Islamic Republic of Iran that have transpired since the submission of the Special Rapporteur’s second interim report to the 67th session of the General Assembly (A/67/369) ...
United Nations Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed elicited a blustering response from the Iranian delegation when he presented the findings of his most recent report on the situation of human rights in Iran to the Human Rights Council yesterday. In remarks both yesterday and today, Iranian delegation leader and Iranian Human Rights Council head Mohammad Javad ...
(Commentary) What does it mean to defend something “unabashedly”? The use of the word “unabashed” here might mean that we have received a “shameful” proposal. In such cases, we usually mean that someone suggested something ugly to us without shame, whereas we feel he should have been more remorseful. What lies behind our expectation of ...
Following the arrest of Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran’s former press court judge and prosecutor, Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “The timing and the manner of arrest of Saeed Mortazavi, a suspect in the Kahrizak Detention Center case and the Zahra Kazemi murder case, once again showed that ...
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran demands that the Iranian Judiciary suspend the execution sentences of five Ahvazi Arab activists, conduct an independent investigation into the judicial process of the case, and investigate the suspects’ allegations of torture during their investigations. The five men are said to be activists in or founders of ...
Today five independent experts from the United Nations called on the Iranian government to halt the executions of five Ahvazi Arab activists. The UN experts include the UN Special Rapporteurs on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, on extrajudicial, ...
Though public executions are nothing new in the Islamic Republic of Iran, two executions carried out over the past week have received a lot of attention due to their ...
On Wednesday, January 16, Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) reported of the public execution of a man charged with rape in the city of Sabzevar in Khorasan Province. Although there have been many public executions carried out by the Iranian Judiciary, the venue used for this particular execution, the Sabzevar Sports Complex, was unprecedented, reminiscent ...
The 73-page comprehensive report, The Cost of Faith: Persecution of Christian Protestants and Converts in Iran, documents a pattern of rights violations that extends to all walks of life for Protestant converts in Iran: they face severe restrictions on religious practice and association, arbitrary arrests and detentions for practicing their faith, and violations of the ...
Following the announcement of death sentences for two men who were charged with violating public security through “robbery,” prominent lawyer and Vice President of the International Federation of Human Rights (IFHR) Abdol-Karim Lahidji told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the main focus of the Iranian Judiciary’s penal policies is on increasing ...
(Commentary) These days, the subject of violent robberies, usually carried out in public with knives and daggers, has become a hot topic in Iranian public opinion. Though armed robberies are not a new phenomenon, YouTube images captured by a surveillance camera of four men robbing a man on a not-so-secluded street in Tehran have made ...
Amir Hekmati, a 29 year-old US citizen and decorated Iraq war veteran, traveled to Iran in August of 2011 to visit his grandmother and extended family. Within weeks of entering the country for the first time, he was arrested, interrogated, and sent to Evin Prison, with no explanation to his family. ...
Mapping Iran’s Human Rights, an ongoing project of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, highlights and explores major human rights violations in different provinces of Iran, beyond Tehran’s borders. Given this geographical overview of human rights violations, you can monitor human rights trends, learn about notorious prisons, keep tabs on Iranian officials who ...
At least nine unarmed cross-border couriers were killed or injured between October 30 and November 7, 2012, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “On the night of October 30, border security forces shot some cross-border couriers in Targehvar near Orumiyeh [in West Azerbaijan Province]. One of the border couriers, ...
(November 27, 2012) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes today’s passage of a resolution by the United Nations Third Committee of the General Assembly calling on the government of Iran to stop its massive human rights violations. ...
Gohar Eshghi, Sattar Beheshti’s mother, told the Campaign that she is requesting an in-person meeting with Sadeq Larijani, Head of the Iranian Judiciary, so that she may talk to him about the investigations into her son’s death. “I would like to ask Mr. Larijani and the Tehran Prosecutor to give me an appointment so that ...
Respect the Oath: "Keep Them from Harm and Injustice" After international outcry about the suspicious death of blogger Sattar Bahashti while in custody of the Iranian security forces, Iranian authorities launched ...
GENEVA (15 November 2012) – A group of United Nations experts today urged the Government of Iran to undertake a thorough, independent and impartial investigation of the death in custody of Iranian blogger Sattar Beheshti, particularly the allegations of torture, and to make the result of such an investigation public. ...
A source close to the family of Sattar Beheshti, a blogger whose family was informed of his death in custody on November 6, told the International Campaign that “If we know that we are supported by an organization and that our lives are safe and that they will not take us like Sattar to beat, ...