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Executions / Life

Shirin Ebadi: Iran’s Judiciary Is a Subsidiary of the Intelligence Ministry

Shirin Ebadi: Iran’s Judiciary Is a Subsidiary of the Intelligence Ministry

February 10, 2013

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 ...

Iranian Judiciary Must Halt Death Sentences and Investigate Torture Claims

Iranian Judiciary Must Halt Death Sentences and Investigate Torture Claims

January 25, 2013

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 ...

UN Rights Experts Urge Iran to Halt Executions of Five Ahvazi Activists

UN Rights Experts Urge Iran to Halt Executions of Five Ahvazi Activists

January 25, 2013

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, ...

Cartoon 41: Executions in the Public Eye

Cartoon 41: Executions in the Public Eye

January 22, 2013

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 ...

Photo of the Day: Public Execution in a Sports Stadium in Iran

Photo of the Day: Public Execution in a Sports Stadium in Iran

January 20, 2013

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 ...

Christian Converts Face Criminalization of their Faith in Iran

Christian Converts Face Criminalization of their Faith in Iran

January 16, 2013

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 ...

Abdol-Karim Lahidji: Judiciary’s Intimidation Tactics and Disproportionate Punishments Marks Its Failure to Deliver Public Justice

Abdol-Karim Lahidji: Judiciary’s Intimidation Tactics and Disproportionate Punishments Marks Its Failure to Deliver Public Justice

January 11, 2013

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 ...

Robbery and Double Intimidation: What’s Wrong With This Picture? By Hossein Ghazian

Robbery and Double Intimidation: What’s Wrong With This Picture? By Hossein Ghazian

January 11, 2013

(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 ...

Podcast 52: Interviewing Sarah Hekmati about her Brother Amir, an American Imprisoned in Iran

Podcast 52: Interviewing Sarah Hekmati about her Brother Amir, an American Imprisoned in Iran

January 3, 2013

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 (Interactive)

Mapping Iran’s Human Rights (Interactive)

December 18, 2012

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 ...

Continued Killing of Unarmed Cross-border Couriers: 9 Killed and Injured Within 9 Days

Continued Killing of Unarmed Cross-border Couriers: 9 Killed and Injured Within 9 Days

November 28, 2012

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, ...

UN Resolution Intensifies International Pressure on Iran

UN Resolution Intensifies International Pressure on Iran

November 27, 2012

(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. ...

Family Forced to Sign Release in the Case of Prison Interrogation Death

Family Forced to Sign Release in the Case of Prison Interrogation Death

November 24, 2012

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 ...

Cartoon 33: Respect the Oath: “Keep Them from Harm and Injustice”

Cartoon 33: Respect the Oath: “Keep Them from Harm and Injustice”

November 23, 2012

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 ...

Cartoon 32: Manipulating a Tragic Death in Prison

Cartoon 32: Manipulating a Tragic Death in Prison

November 17, 2012

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UN Experts Call for an Independent Investigation into the Death of Sattar Beheshti

UN Experts Call for an Independent Investigation into the Death of Sattar Beheshti

November 16, 2012

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. ...

Sattar Beheshti’s Family Ask for Protection To Come Forward With Lawsuit Against Torture Culprits

Sattar Beheshti’s Family Ask for Protection To Come Forward With Lawsuit Against Torture Culprits

November 12, 2012

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, ...

Iranian Judiciary’s High Council of Human Rights Reacts to Sattar Beheshti’s Prison Death

Iranian Judiciary’s High Council of Human Rights Reacts to Sattar Beheshti’s Prison Death

November 11, 2012

After several days of silence on the prison death of blogger Sattar Beheshti, the Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Council stated in a press release today, November 11, 2012, that by special order of Sadeq Larijani, Head of the Judiciary, “all aspects of the issue have come under careful review, and the Judiciary Spokesperson and other ...

Cartoon 31: Never-ending Death in Prisons

Cartoon 31: Never-ending Death in Prisons

November 11, 2012

Sattar Beheshti, 35, a laborer who criticzed the Iranian government for its oppressive policies in his blogs, was arrested on Tuesday, October 30. His arrest came after several warnings and summonses by Iran’s Cyber Police who had at one point threatened Beheshti that if he kept writing his critical blogs, they would “make his mother ...

Signs of Torture on Body of Deceased Blogger, Family Under Pressure to Keep Silent

Signs of Torture on Body of Deceased Blogger, Family Under Pressure to Keep Silent

November 9, 2012

A source close to the family of Sattar Behesthi, a blogger whose family was told on November 6 that he had died in a detention center, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the blogger’s family was threatened with arrest if they spoke with the media. The source told the Campaign that ...

Cartoon 30: Women Prisoners, Dignity and Hunger Strike

Cartoon 30: Women Prisoners, Dignity and Hunger Strike

November 9, 2012

On October 30, a group of female political prisoners inside Evin Prison’s Ward 350 embarked on a hunger strike to protest their inhumane treatment by Evin Prison authorities following a raid by prison authorities during which the prisoners were subjected to degrading treatment. The group ended their hunger strike on November 5, after prison authorities ...

Blogger Dies in Detention, Torture Suspected

Blogger Dies in Detention, Torture Suspected

November 8, 2012

(November 8, 2012) The Iranian Judiciary should immediately investigate the death of a young blogger, Sattar Beheshti, during interrogations and hold the responsible officials accountable, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Beheshti’s death in custody raises serious concerns about the ongoing ill-treatment of prisoners of conscience in Iran while security and ...

Cartoon (28): “No Political Prisoners in Iran”

Cartoon (28): “No Political Prisoners in Iran”

October 23, 2012

Earlier this year, in July, Javad Larijani stated, “There are no political prisoners inside the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Just last week, on October 17, Larijani’s brother Sadeq Larijani, Iran’s Head of Judiciary, claimed, “No one is executed in Iran for their political convictions.” ...

Weekly Cartoon (20): Living Death

Weekly Cartoon (20): Living Death

September 19, 2012

Mohammad Nazari, a Kurdish political prisoner at Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, sewed his lips shut and embarked on a hunger strike on August 28, 2012, to protest the judicial authorities’ disregard for his request for release. “Considering Mohammad Nazari’s more than 19 years inside Mahabad, Orumiyeh, and Rajaee Shahr Prisons, he stated to ...

After 19 Years in Prison, Political Prisoner Sews Lips and Starts Hunger Strike

After 19 Years in Prison, Political Prisoner Sews Lips and Starts Hunger Strike

September 17, 2012

“On Monday, August 27, Mohammad Nazari sent a letter to judicial authorities objecting to his conditions and stating that over the past several years, his family has pursued his case in the Revolutionary Courts in Mahabad and Orumiyeh and with the Supreme Leader’s Office, and each time they have been told that he would be ...

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