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Evin Prisoners Need Medical Care

Evin Prisoners Need Medical Care

November 18, 2013

After months of effort by imprisoned journalist Saeed Matinpour’s family to obtain medical treatment for him, the Prosecutor’s Office has maintained its silence, his wife told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “The prisoners at Evin face gradual death conditions and the officials apparently don’t hear our pleas. Poor nutrition, insufficient access to ...

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 ...

Political Prisoners Embark on Hunger Strike on Behalf of Sick Prisoners

Political Prisoners Embark on Hunger Strike on Behalf of Sick Prisoners

November 6, 2013

Abdolfattah Soltani, an imprisoned lawyer and human rights activist, embarked on a hunger strike together with three other political prisoners on November 2, his sixtieth birthday, to protest the conditions of sick prisoners who need medical treatment and have been refused transfers to a hospital, his daughter told the International Campaign for Human Rights in ...

Event in New York – Iran: Silenced, Expelled, & Imprisoned

Event in New York – Iran: Silenced, Expelled, & Imprisoned

October 31, 2013

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran will be joining the Center for Public Scholarship at The New School, Amnesty International, and Scholars at Risk for a panel discussion about the ongoing imprisonment and persecution of students and scholars in Iran from 6pm to 8pm on November 13 in New York City. ...

Repression Intensifies Despite Rouhani’s Promises

October 28, 2013

The Iranian Judiciary should immediately halt its new wave of repression of the media and civil society and stop its numerous rushed executions, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

Lab Tests Show Karroubi’s Health Seriously Deteriorating Under House Arrest

Lab Tests Show Karroubi’s Health Seriously Deteriorating Under House Arrest

October 22, 2013

Political dissident and 2009 presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who has been under extrajudicial house arrest since February 2011, is suffering from an alarmingly low level of vitamin D and osteoporosis, according to pathology laboratory test results the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has obtained. Considering his unfavorable health conditions, continuing his detention will ...

XIII International Human Rights Colloquium

XIII International Human Rights Colloquium

October 18, 2013

Over 100 human rights advocates from 40 countries are convening in São Paulo, Brazi, from October 12 to 19, to discuss “A New Global Order in Human Rights? Actors, Challenges and Opportunities” at the 13th International Human Rights Colloquium organized by Conectas Human Rights. This post will be updated regularly throughout the conference. ...

Christian Pastor’s Wife: Obama Asked Rouhani To Release My Husband

Christian Pastor’s Wife: Obama Asked Rouhani To Release My Husband

October 17, 2013

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, the wife of Iranian-American pastor Saeed Abedini who has been sentenced to eight years in prison, said that during the September 27 telephone conversation between Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani, the release of her husband was discussed. “Although a few weeks have passed ...

Mostafa Tajzadeh Faces New Charges in Prison

Mostafa Tajzadeh Faces New Charges in Prison

October 17, 2013

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Fakhrolsadat Mohtashamipour, wife of Mostafa Tajzadeh, prisoner of conscience and political activist, said that a new case has been opened and a new indictment issued for her husband, the content of which is as yet unknown to them. Fakhrolsadat Mohtashamipour said that the ...

Dismissed University Professor Awaits Response to Request for Reinstatement

Dismissed University Professor Awaits Response to Request for Reinstatement

October 12, 2013

Mohammad Sharif, lawyer and professor of law at Allameh Tabatabaee University who was dismissed from his academic job in April 2011, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that after recent statements by Jafar Tofighi, the Acting Minister of Science, about the return of academic staff dismissed during recent years, he submitted his ...

Sattar Beheshti’s Mother: All Efforts Focused on Protecting Murderer

Sattar Beheshti’s Mother: All Efforts Focused on Protecting Murderer

October 10, 2013

Sattar Beheshti’s mother told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the indictment issued for her son’s prison death case for “quasi-intentional murder” was unexpected. “We’re really disappointed with the indictment. Up until the time the indictment was issued, every time we saw Mr. Shahriari, the case’s Investigative Judge, in the meetings he ...

Rouhani Cabinet Sends Mixed Messages About Facebook and Twitter

Rouhani Cabinet Sends Mixed Messages About Facebook and Twitter

October 8, 2013

Just a few hours after the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported that Iran’s Minister of Communications Mahmoud Vaezi told reporters today that Facebook and Twitter will remain blocked in Iran, his ministry released an official statement saying that the unblocking of social networks is still under review and no final decisions have been made. ...

Soltani’s Wife Sentenced for Accepting Human Rights Award on his Behalf

Soltani’s Wife Sentenced for Accepting Human Rights Award on his Behalf

October 7, 2013

Massoumeh Dehghan, who has never had any political activities, was arrested and detained for six days in July 2011 on charges of traveling to Germany and receiving the Nuremberg Human Rights Award on behalf of her ...

Intelligence Office Summons Family Members of VOA Reporter

Intelligence Office Summons Family Members of VOA Reporter

October 7, 2013

Journalist and blogger Arash Sigarchi, who works as a reporter for Voice of America’s Persian Service, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his family has been summoned and threatened by Gilan Province Intelligence Office forces. “On Monday, September 9, they contacted my mother from the Gilan Intelligence Office and asked her ...

Journalist Issa Saharkhiz Released Two Months Prior to End of Sentence

Journalist Issa Saharkhiz Released Two Months Prior to End of Sentence

October 3, 2013

Imprisoned Iranian journalist, Issa Saharkhiz, was released on Thursday, October 3, only two months short of completing his prison sentence. “I was informed by my family that my father received his release letter sy the hospital. They will now have to complete his paperwork in order to take him home from the hospital,” his son, ...

Court Finalizes Six-year Sentence for Writing a Letter to Mohammad Khatami

Court Finalizes Six-year Sentence for Writing a Letter to Mohammad Khatami

October 2, 2013

Imprisoned lawyer Mohammad Seifzadeh appeared in court to defend himself against charges of “collusion and assembly against national security,” he wrote in a letter published September 29 on Kaleme website. Though judicial officials had told his family they planned on closing the case against him if he appeared in court, Seifzadeh wrote, the court appearance ...

Nasrin Sotoudeh, an hour after release: “They told me, ‘You are free.’ Other prisoners and lawyers should be released, too”

Nasrin Sotoudeh, an hour after release: “They told me, ‘You are free.’ Other prisoners and lawyers should be released, too”

September 18, 2013

An hour after her release from prison, human rights lawyer and prisoner of conscience Nasrin Sotoudeh told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “When they took me out of the prison, they told me, ‘You are free.’ Last night they told four others. They told me that my furlough was approved, but when ...

Prisoners’ Release Welcomed Ahead of Rouhani UN Visit

Prisoners’ Release Welcomed Ahead of Rouhani UN Visit

September 18, 2013

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes the release today of several prisoners of conscience in Iran, including lawyer and human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani should continue to take concrete steps towards improving the urgent human rights situation in his country as he prepares to address the United Nations, ...

Starred Students Face Reprieve

Starred Students Face Reprieve

September 18, 2013

Iran’s Ministry of Science announced yesterday that Iran’s most recent “starred students” can enroll in universities. “Starred students” are university students who, over the past eight years, were banned from continuing their higher education as a result of their student and/or political activities, or their religion. According to Shargh Newspaper, the Ministry of Science has ...

Dissident Cleric Serving Additional Year in Prison for Calling Khomeini A Populist

Dissident Cleric Serving Additional Year in Prison for Calling Khomeini A Populist

September 11, 2013

Dissident cleric Arash Honarvar Shojaee told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran the Judiciary has issued new charges of “insulting Imam Khomeini” against him after he expressed his personal opinions in an interview. Furthermore, despite confirmation from the Medical Examiner about his health and his inability to endure a prison sentence, he said ...

Intelligence Ministry Interrogates Mourning Mother

Intelligence Ministry Interrogates Mourning Mother

September 10, 2013

Human rights activist Mansoureh Behkish, several of whose family members were executed by the Islamic Republic in the 1980s, was summoned to Intelligence Ministry again on Wednesday, August 26, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. She has been summoned to the Intelligence Ministry several times in the past. ...

Demanding Justice, an Interview with Reza Moini

Demanding Justice, an Interview with Reza Moini

September 6, 2013

In an interview with Kambiz Hosseini, host of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran’s “Five in the Afternoon” weekly podcast, Reza Moini, the head of Reporters Without Borders’ Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan desk, said that his brother lost his life during the 1988 mass executions of dissidents in Iranian prisons. ...

Imprisoned Blogger Continues Hunger Strike; Father Writes to President and Supreme Leader

Imprisoned Blogger Continues Hunger Strike; Father Writes to President and Supreme Leader

September 3, 2013

Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, a prisoner of conscience on hunger strike in protest of his prison conditions since August 9, was transferred to Shahid Modarres Hospital on Wednesday, August 28, after his health deteriorated. The prisoner’s father told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he did not accept intravenous feeding nor breaking his ...

Saeed Malekpour’s Death Sentence Commuted to Life Because “He Repented”

Saeed Malekpour’s Death Sentence Commuted to Life Because “He Repented”

August 29, 2013

Saeed Malekpour, a web developer who had previously been sentenced to death for blasphemy, was sentenced to life in prison after he repented at the Supreme Court. Malekpour’s lawyer, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaee, told ISNA News Agency on Monday, August 26, that after his death sentence was upheld at the Supreme Court, he repented and showed ...

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