Kurdish Political Prisoner on Hunger Strike to Protest Imminent Death Sentence
Mohammad Abdollahi Mohammad Abdollahi Could Be Executed “At Any Moment” Mohammad Abdollahi, an Iranian-Kurdish prisoner on death row in Orumiyeh Prison in ...
Free Expression
Guard Assaults Ailing Political Prisoner in Hospital
Imprisoned newspaper editor Ehsan Mazandarani, who has been hospitalized in Tehran since May 31, 2016 due to his life-threatening hunger strike, was attacked by a prison guard in his ...
Executive Summary
This report by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran seeks to shine a spotlight on the inmates of the Women’s Ward at Iran’s Evin Prison. It is based on testimonies and eyewitness accounts by prisoners in the ward, which were confirmed by recently released prisoners and family members of the ward’s prisoners. At least ...
Iranian-Canadian Academic Detained During Visit to Iran
Homa Hoodfar, an Iranian-Canadian scholar and expert on gender and development in Islam, was arrested on June 6, 2016 during a visit to Iran after being summoned to Evin Prison in ...
PhD Student Imprisoned for Refusing to Work for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Denied Rights
Hamid Babaei, a PhD student incarcerated for nearly three years in Rajaee Shahr Prison following a trial that lasted less than 10 minutes, has been denied his rights to conditional release and ...
Christian Convert Repeatedly Imprisoned for his Faith Denied Timely Adjudication
A Christian convert’s appeal against his five-year prison sentence has not been adjudicated more than a year after his third conviction on repeated charges related to his new faith, a source knowledgeable about the ...
Ailing Imprisoned Christian Convert Home On Brief Leave Maintains Demand for Permanent Release
Maryam (Nasim) Naghash Zargaran, a Christian convert who has been imprisoned since 2013 while suffering from several ailments, has been home with her family on a five-day furlough (temporary leave) since June 6, 2016 ...
Campaign’s Letter to Rouhani: Allow Women Spectators to Attend World Volleyball Games in Tehran
Over the past few years, since Iran's national volleyball team rose to international prominence, the authorities have banned women from attending stadiums and supporting their team. Ban on Women Attending ...
New Video: Time for Anti-Baha’i Discrimination to End in Iran
State Officials Launch New Wave of Verbal Attacks after Former President’s Daughter Visits Baha’i Prisoner June 07, 2016—The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Impact Iran released an animated video today calling for an end to the discrimination and incitement to hatred against members ...
Officials Seek to Confront Iran’s Increasingly Popular “White Marriages”
The increasing popularity of Iranian couples living together without getting officially married has alarmed officials of the Islamic Republic who question the morality of the practice and its impact on population growth demanded by ...
Negligence by Major Tech Companies like Google and Telegram Aiding Iran’s Cyber Army
Tech Giants’ Failure to Implement Security Measures Endangers Millions of Users Large technology firms are failing to provide sophisticated and country-specific user security measures, and as a result, are helping Iran’s state agencies target Iranian citizens online, an investigation by the International Campaign for Human Rights ...
Cartoon 146: No Friendship with Baha’is!
Faezeh Hashemi, the outspoken daughter of prominent former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been threatened with prosecution by a high ranking Judiciary official following her meeting with Baha’i leader Fariba Kamalabadi and ...
Music Distributors Summoned to Prison: Don’t Forget Us
Mehdi Rajabian, Hossein Rajabian and Yousef Emadi, all managers of BargMusic—one of the main producers and distributors of underground music in Iran since its launch in 2009—have ...
Kurdish Political Prisoner Resumes Hunger Strike Despite Risk of Death
Prominent Kurdish human rights activist Mohammad Sediq Kaboudvand has resumed his hunger strike following his hospitalization in Tehran on May 25, 2016, increasing his risk of a ...
Women Prisoners Collectively Punished For Baha’i Leader’s Meeting with Activist during Her Furlough
Inmates at the Women’s Ward in Evin Prison have been told that their furloughs (temporary leave) have been canceled and that they will no longer be able to send letters to relatives, ...
Hospitalized Christian Convert Returned to Prison Without Treatment
Imprisoned Christian convert Maryam (Nasim) Naghash Zargaran, who had no access to legal counsel during her trial in 2013, was hospitalized in Tehran on the third day of her hunger strike on May 29, ...
Iranian Gold Miners Lashed for Protesting Layoffs
Seventeen miners in northwestern Iran have been lashed on orders of the Judiciary after their employer sued them for protesting the firing of hundreds of their colleagues, the semi-official Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) ...
Cartoon 145: “The Critic Should Not Be Arrested and Taken to Prison!”
On May 3, 2016, during a speech at the grand opening of Tehran Book Fair, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said, “The critic should not be arrested and taken to prison.” This is prominent ...
Activist Imprisoned and Tortured Without Access to a Lawyer for Shouting “Death to Khamenei”
Labor activist Mehdi Farahi Shandiz, imprisoned for shouting “death to [Ali] Khamenei,” Iran’s supreme leader, is being unlawfully held in Rajaee Shahr Prison’s Ward 10, where non-political prisoners are kept, and has been ...
Ailing Political Prisoner, Denied Legal Counsel and Medical Care, Sentenced to 39 Years in Prison
Alireza Golipour, imprisoned in Iran since 2012 on national security charges and denied access to a lawyer until May 2016, has been sentenced to more than 39 years in prison. Golipour has ...
Imprisoned Physicist Given Two-Week Medical Furlough After Losing Cancerous Kidney
Imprisoned physicist Omid Kokabee has been granted a two-week medical furlough upon payment of five billion rials ($164,000 USD) bail, an informed source told the International Campaign for Human ...
Kurdish Political Prisoner in Iran on Hunger Strike to Protest New Charges
Mohammad Sediq Kaboudvand, a prominent Kurdish human rights activist who is in his ninth year of incarceration at Tehran’s Evin Prison, has gone on hunger strike to protest the new ...
Iran Must End State Persecution of Baha’is, Say Exiled Iranian Political Figures
In the wake of the intense criticism by Iranian officials and religious leaders of Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, for her ...
Environmentalist’s Facebook Account Hacked, Used to Deny Her Detention while She Was Still Behind Bars
Zakiya Neysi’s Father Forced to Sign Pledge Prior to her Release The day after environmental activist Zakiya Neysi was arrested by intelligence agents in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahwaz, ...
Leading Iranian Human Rights Activist to Serve Ten Years in Prison
Narges Mohammadi Sentenced for Her Peaceful Activism in Iran May 19, 2016—The prominent Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has been sentenced to serve ten years of a 16-year ...