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Imprisoned Journalist Remains in Solitary Confinement Without Charges

Imprisoned Journalist Remains in Solitary Confinement Without Charges

July 22, 2013

Imprisoned journalist Fariba Pajouh, arrested July 10, is being held in solitary confinement without charges, a member of her family told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Deceased Blogger’s Mother Requests Exhumation

Deceased Blogger’s Mother Requests Exhumation

July 18, 2013

In reaction to the Medical Examiner’s Office’s final opinion stating that Sattar Beheshti’s cause of death could not have been blows while in detention, his mother recently demanded for his body to be exhumed to determine his real cause of death. ...

Imprisoned Lawyer Seifzadeh Defends Himself for Writing Letters

Imprisoned Lawyer Seifzadeh Defends Himself for Writing Letters

July 18, 2013

Imprisoned lawyer Mohammad Seifzadeh defended himself against charges of “writing letters and signing group statements in prison” in a July 17 appeals court session, his wife told the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Calling the his trial courts “unqualified” to try him, Mohammad Seifzadeh had not attended any of his previous five court sessions, ...

Sattar Beheshti’s Aggressor Could Still Be Prosecuted

Sattar Beheshti’s Aggressor Could Still Be Prosecuted

July 12, 2013

The Head of the Iranian Medical Examiner’s Office said on Tuesday, July 9, that according to his organization’s final report, the blows dealt to blogger Sattar Beheshti during his interrogation were not fatal and could not have caused his death, Mehr News Agency reported. Dr. Ahmad Shojaee also told Mehr that in the Medical ...

Journalist’s Family Puzzled by Her Arrest: She Did Nothing Wrong

Journalist’s Family Puzzled by Her Arrest: She Did Nothing Wrong

July 11, 2013

Security forces arrested journalist Fariba Pajouh on July 10 in Tehran, though a family member of hers told the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the reasons for her arrest are unclear. ...

No Information About Christian Converts, Continued Pressure on Members of Evangelical Churches

No Information About Christian Converts, Continued Pressure on Members of Evangelical Churches

July 8, 2013

One month after the arrest of three Christian converts in Isfahan, their conditions remain unknown and there is no news about their fate. According to reports from the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran’s sources, since the May 29 arrests of Mohammad Reza Farid, Saeed Safi, and Hamid Reza Ghadiri, their families have been ...

Astonishment at Kahrizak Ruling: Mortazavi Sentenced to $60 Fine and Five Years’ Dismissal From Government Jobs

Astonishment at Kahrizak Ruling: Mortazavi Sentenced to $60 Fine and Five Years’ Dismissal From Government Jobs

July 3, 2013

A lower court ruling in the Kahrizak case issued yesterday indicates that the three suspects in the case were permanently dismissed from judicial positions, and further dismissed from government employment for five years. To the astonishment of observers, Saeed Mortazavi, the prime suspect in the case, was acquitted from the charge of “participation in murder,” ...

Freedom to Sing: Iranian Musicians in Iraqi Kurdistan with Roxana Saberi

Freedom to Sing: Iranian Musicians in Iraqi Kurdistan with Roxana Saberi

June 28, 2013

In recent years, many Iranian musicians have left Iran in search of the freedom to create without censorship or fear of punishment for their work. Some have ended up in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region, which is known for its relative stability and security. There they can perform and release music without having to get government ...

Acknowledge Sattar Died In the Hands of His Interrogator, Demands Beheshti Lawyer

Acknowledge Sattar Died In the Hands of His Interrogator, Demands Beheshti Lawyer

June 27, 2013

The lawyer for Sattar Beheshti, a blogger who died in November 2012 while in the custody of the Iranian Cyber Police (FATA), said her client’s case has not been forwarded to court and objected to the eight-month delay in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Activist Given Six-Year Sentence and Exiled to Bandar Abbas

Activist Given Six-Year Sentence and Exiled to Bandar Abbas

June 26, 2013

Political activist Saeed Madani has been sentenced to six years in prison in exile in Bandar Abbas. Mansoureh Ettefagh, the wife of the social researcher and visiting professor, expressed shock at the harsh sentence and the charges themselves in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Journalist Completes Prison Sentence, Sotoudeh Released on 4-day Furlough

Journalist Completes Prison Sentence, Sotoudeh Released on 4-day Furlough

June 26, 2013

Imprisoned lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh was released from Evin Prison on furlough on Sunday, June 23. Journalist Jila Baniyaghoub was also released from Evin Prison on the same day after completing her one-year prison sentence. ...

Four Years Later, Still No Justice for Neda’s Murder

Four Years Later, Still No Justice for Neda’s Murder

June 24, 2013

On the fourth anniversary of the death of Neda Agha Soltan in the aftermath of the 2009 presidential elections, her mother told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “There was supposed to be a court trial held, but in the past four years there hasn’t been a trial. The case file is still ...

Election Day: Iranian Citizens’ Street Observations

Election Day: Iranian Citizens’ Street Observations

June 14, 2013

While the polls were open in Iran, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran spoke to four voters about their votes, the state of the polling stations, and their expectations for the election. ...

Election Day: News Networks Blocked, Campaign Workers Limited, Universities Closed

Election Day: News Networks Blocked, Campaign Workers Limited, Universities Closed

June 14, 2013

As Iranians cast their votes for president today, authorities are blocking foreign Persian-language television stations, shutting down university campuses, and denying permissions and visas to some poll workers and foreign reporters. ...

Visas Denied for Some Western Reporters, Others Face Difficult Reporting Conditions Inside Iran

Visas Denied for Some Western Reporters, Others Face Difficult Reporting Conditions Inside Iran

June 12, 2013

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has learned that this week Iranian officials have refused the visa applications of many foreign reporters who had applied to travel to Iran for coverage of the June 14 presidential election. Four reporters from different countries told the Campaign that despite applying for visas up to two ...

Iran Accelerates Crackdown on Media and Dissidents Prior to Election

Iran Accelerates Crackdown on Media and Dissidents Prior to Election

June 10, 2013

Iranian authorities should immediately stop censoring newspapers and news websites, arresting political activists, and muzzling foreign journalists within the country, ahead of the June 14 presidential election, the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

Iranians’ Access To Technology Now “Up To The Private Companies”

Iranians’ Access To Technology Now “Up To The Private Companies”

June 7, 2013

In an interview with the Campaign, independent Internet security expert Collin Anderson, who participated in the campaign to lift the technology sanctions, described the general license as “an exemplary case of civil society organizations from different fields working together.” Congratulating the US administration for lifting the technology sanctions, Anderson said, “Now we have to push ...

US Lifting of Tech Sanctions Welcomed

US Lifting of Tech Sanctions Welcomed

June 3, 2013

The Campaign welcomes the Obama administration’s positive step towards facilitating access to information in Iran, and calls on the administration to follow through with legal financial channels for Iranians to access the communications tools. ...

As Elections Approach, Iran Remains Silent on Arrests of Journalists

As Elections Approach, Iran Remains Silent on Arrests of Journalists

May 30, 2013

Iranian officials should break their silence about the status of Baztab Emrooz’s managing editor Ali Ghazali and the news website’s founder Foad Sadeghi, both arrested in the last month in relation to their media activities, and ensure they receive due process while in custody, including access to a lawyer, the International Campaign for Human Rights ...

UN Experts Decry Discrimination Against Women Candidates, Imprisonment of Journalists

UN Experts Decry Discrimination Against Women Candidates, Imprisonment of Journalists

May 29, 2013

In a statement released today, five United Nations human rights experts warned that Iran is seriously violating international law by its continued discrimination against women presidential candidates and the ongoing suppression of the press, as well as its violations of freedoms of association and assembly. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes the ...

Student Activist Forcefully Arrested to Serve Prison Sentence

Student Activist Forcefully Arrested to Serve Prison Sentence

May 29, 2013

Security forces stormed the home of Ashkan Zahabian, a former Mashhad University student and member of the Daftar Tahkim Vahdat Student Organization General Council, arrested him, and transferred him to Babol’s Mati Kola Prison on May 27, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. According to the source, the security forces ...

HOPE Concert for the Iranian People To Be Held in Berlin

HOPE Concert for the Iranian People To Be Held in Berlin

May 22, 2013

On June 7, Iranian-American journalist and peace activist Roxana Saberi, who was arrested in Iran in 2009 and freed after international outcry, will present the HOPE Concert at the Velodrom in Berlin in worldwide support for the Iranian people. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes this opportunity to raise awareness of the ...

Prisoners of Conscience Recalled from Furlough, Journalists Threatened in Tehran

Prisoners of Conscience Recalled from Furlough, Journalists Threatened in Tehran

May 21, 2013

Two journalists and a blogger previously released on furlough have been recalled to prison and are expected to turn themselves in today, and imprisoned lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s promised furlough has not been granted. Security forces have also recently summoned several other journalists in Tehran and have made telephone calls warning them not to support a ...

Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari on Censorship in Iran

Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari on Censorship in Iran

May 20, 2013

On May 8, 2013, world-famous political satirist Jon Stewart of The Daily Show held a discussion about censorship and power in Iran, followed by a lively Q&A, at an event hosted by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and the PEN American Center. ...

Presidential Candidate Brags About His Direct Role in Violence and Repression

Presidential Candidate Brags About His Direct Role in Violence and Repression

May 16, 2013

(May 16, 2013) The international community should immediately institute a travel ban and asset freeze against Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, the current mayor of Tehran and a contender in the upcoming presidential election, due to his extensive role in gross human rights violations, the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

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