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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. ...

Presidential Candidate Threatened Not to Give Interviews to Persian Media Abroad

Presidential Candidate Threatened Not to Give Interviews to Persian Media Abroad

May 15, 2013

Ghassem Sholeh Sadi, a presidential election candidate told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 14, Intelligence Ministry forces threatened him not to talk to media such as the BBC Persian Service and Voice of America about the upcoming elections and his candidacy. ...

400 Candidates Disqualified for City Councils in Iran, 90 of them in Tehran

400 Candidates Disqualified for City Councils in Iran, 90 of them in Tehran

May 15, 2013

Hossein Tala, Head of the High Elections Oversight Committee for Islamic Tehran Province City and Village Councils told Iranian Students News Agency(ISNA) that so far, 90 candidates who have been disqualified in the City of Tehran and 311 disqualified candidates from towns have filed grievances about the vetting process. ...

“I Didn’t See A Need to Summon Those Witnesses,” Says the Kahrizak Judge

“I Didn’t See A Need to Summon Those Witnesses,” Says the Kahrizak Judge

May 14, 2013

The eighth trial session of judges implicated in the Kahrizak Detention Center case was held on Monday, May 13 at Branch 76 of Tehran Penal Court under Judge Siamak Modir Khorasani. As in the previous seven sessions, the court session was held behind closed doors. Saeed Mortazavi, the main suspect charged with “participation in murder,” ...

“Five in the Afternoon” with Kambiz Hosseini Wins International Award for Best of Online Activism

“Five in the Afternoon” with Kambiz Hosseini Wins International Award for Best of Online Activism

May 13, 2013

“Five in the Afternoon,” the Persian-language weekly podcast hosted by prominent Iranian satirist Kambiz Hosseini and sponsored and produced by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, has won the Bobs Reporters Without Borders User Award presented by Deutsche Welle. ...

UN Experts Call for Immediate Release of Imprisoned Iranian Baha’i Leaders

UN Experts Call for Immediate Release of Imprisoned Iranian Baha’i Leaders

May 13, 2013

Four United Nations Human Rights experts urged Iran to release the seven imprisoned Baha’i leaders today, according to a press release issued by the UN Office of the Baha’i International Community. Nearly five years since they were arrested, the seven leaders remain imprisoned solely because of their religious beliefs. ...

IRGC Mandated Grieving Families to Watch Forced Confessions

IRGC Mandated Grieving Families to Watch Forced Confessions

May 13, 2013

The Kurdistan Province IRGC Intelligence Unit has twice summoned the family members of slain members of Kurdish political parties in the past few months, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. During the meetings, the families have had to watch videotapes of confessions of Kurdish political prisoners. ...

Censorship and Power in Iran with Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari (Slideshow)

Censorship and Power in Iran with Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari (Slideshow)

May 12, 2013

On May 8, 2013, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran hosted a screening in New York of Iranian-Canadian director Maziar Bahari’s film Forced Confessions in a joint event with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the PEN American Center. ...

Jon Stewart Hosts Iran Censorship Event

Jon Stewart Hosts Iran Censorship Event

May 9, 2013

Highlighting the heightened censorship and the situation of journalists in Iran, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran hosted a screening of Iranian-Canadian director Maziar Bahari’s film Forced Confessions in a joint event with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the PEN American Center on May 8 in New York. ...

“My Sattar Died for Iran”: An Interview with Sattar Beheshti’s Mother

“My Sattar Died for Iran”: An Interview with Sattar Beheshti’s Mother

May 8, 2013

More than six months after the prison death of Sattar Beheshti, a laborer and blogger from Robat Karim (17 miles outside Tehran) who was arrested on November 3, 2012, and died the next day, his mother and sister have not been able to face in court the men who murdered the 35-year-old man under torture ...

Editor Imprisoned After Revealing News of Ahmadinejad Recording

Editor Imprisoned After Revealing News of Ahmadinejad Recording

May 8, 2013

On April 27, just hours after Baztab Emrooz website published an article about a recording, referred to as “the eight million tape,” that allegedly refers to improper vote counts in Iran’s 2009 presidential election, Iranian officials arrested Managing Editor Ali Ghazali. An informed source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Ghazali’s ...

Iran’s Pre-Election Crackdown on Journalists

Iran’s Pre-Election Crackdown on Journalists

May 2, 2013

With Iran’s presidential approaching in June 2013, Iranian security forces are engaging in a severe crackdown on journalists and publications, which began in January on a day now referred to as “Black Sunday.” ...

No Furlough, Phone Calls, or Visitations for Imprisoned Journalist

No Furlough, Phone Calls, or Visitations for Imprisoned Journalist

May 1, 2013

Three years into his detention, imprisoned journalist Siamak Ghaderi has not been granted a single day of furlough, and he does not have permission to visit with his family, his wife told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. As a prisoner of conscience, he is also denied access to a telephone, she added. ...

Bagher Asadi, a High Ranking Diplomat, And Two Political Activists Arrested

Bagher Asadi, a High Ranking Diplomat, And Two Political Activists Arrested

May 1, 2013

Bagher Asadi, a high-ranking Iranian diplomat was detained in Tehran in March as a part of the crackdown on dissidents in the weeks leading to the Iranian presidential elections, Reuters reported. Asadi, who had previously worked in the Iranian UN Mission in New York, was a director of the Istanbul-based D8 Group of Developing Countries. ...

Cartoon 52: Pre-Election Crackdown on Journalists

Cartoon 52: Pre-Election Crackdown on Journalists

April 30, 2013

In the lead-up to the June 2013 presidential elections, restrictions on journalists have intensified over the last few months. Kaleme Website reported that the Intelligence Ministry recently summoned a meeting with newspaper editors. ...

Censorship and Power in Iran with Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari

Censorship and Power in Iran with Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari

April 29, 2013

Join us in New York for a special screening of Forced Confessions, a film documenting the history of this tactic in Iran, followed by a discussion with Jon Stewart, Maziar Bahari, and Joel Simon. ...

Fariborz Raisdana Released after One Year in Prison

Fariborz Raisdana Released after One Year in Prison

April 16, 2013

Fariborz Raisdana, a Tehran University Economics Professor and member of the Iranian Writers’ Association, was released from prison on April 15, 2013. Raisdana, 70, was arrested at his home and transferred to Evin Prison on December 19, 2010, after giving an interview to BBC Persian Television about the government’s Targeted Subsidies Program, calling it “a ...

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