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Cartoon 51: The Cost of Speaking Out

Cartoon 51: The Cost of Speaking Out

April 15, 2013

Unidentified security forces have been threatening Sahar Beheshti with imprisonment or death if she speaks out about the case of her brother Sattar, a blogger who died while undergoing interrogation in a police detention center in November 2012. Sahar Beheshti is refusing to keep silent. “We only want the formation of a fair court with a ...

Imprisoned Blogger Needs Open Heart Surgery

Imprisoned Blogger Needs Open Heart Surgery

April 12, 2013

Physicians at Ghezel Hessar Prison have determined that imprisoned blogger Mohammad Reza Pourshajari is not fit to serve his sentence, but he remains in prison after two heart attacks, his daughter told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “If authorities don’t grant my father furlough for his open heart surgery, they will have ...

Deceased Blogger’s Sister Threatened with Death for Challenging Impunity

Deceased Blogger’s Sister Threatened with Death for Challenging Impunity

April 11, 2013

The sister of Sattar Beheshti, a blogger who died while undergoing interrogation in a police detention center in November 2012, has been receiving constant death threats to remain silent about his case, she told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Five months after his death, the investigation into his death has still not ...

Podcast 57: Dr. Ahmed Shaheed on Elections, Women’s Rights

Podcast 57: Dr. Ahmed Shaheed on Elections, Women’s Rights

April 10, 2013

Referencing “key opposition leaders in detention” and “quite serious webs of arrests of journalists,” Dr. Ahmed Shaheed says, “In an election year, these kinds of activities can negate any sense of a legitimate ...

Death Row Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Iran

Death Row Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Iran

March 28, 2013

Six Arab-Iranian prisoners have been on hunger strike at Ahvaz’s Karoon Prison since March 3 in protest of the judicial process in their cases and their extreme sentences, a cousin of two of the prisoners told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Five of the prisoners have been sentenced to death, the sixth ...

Investigation of Haleh Sahabi’s Death Closed Without Visual Evidence Review

Investigation of Haleh Sahabi’s Death Closed Without Visual Evidence Review

March 28, 2013

Two years after the death of Haleh Sahabi at her father’s funeral, a Tehran Court has declared she died of “natural causes” and closed the investigation. In an interview with Rooz Online, Sahabi’s husband stated that the court refused to review films and photographs pertaining to the incident despite the court testimonies of four eye ...

UN Human Rights Council Overwhelmingly Votes to Renew Iran Mandate

UN Human Rights Council Overwhelmingly Votes to Renew Iran Mandate

March 22, 2013

(March 22, 2013) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 26 to 2 vote to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran for the third consecutive year. The Campaign also urged Iranian authorities to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur ...

Joint Statement Decries “Rampant Culture of Impunity” at UN Human Rights Council

Joint Statement Decries “Rampant Culture of Impunity” at UN Human Rights Council

March 20, 2013

In an oral statement delivered to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) expressed extreme concern “at the rampant culture of impunity and lack of accountability that protects and encourages acts of torture” in Iran. The statement, delivered March 12, 2013, ...

Cartoon 48: Nowruz 1392

Cartoon 48: Nowruz 1392

March 19, 2013

As Iranians around the world prepare to celebrate the new year, hundreds of prisoners of conscience remain behind bars in Iran. The Persian New Year, Nowruz, is the most important holiday in Iran, beginning at the moment of the vernal equinox. While the news website Kaleme reports that a dozen political prisoners have been granted ...

Condemn Systemic Violations and Renew the UN Special Rapporteur’s Mandate

Condemn Systemic Violations and Renew the UN Special Rapporteur’s Mandate

March 18, 2013

This week, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran joined 16 other human rights organizations in a joint letter asking the United Nations Human Rights Council to renew the mandate Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed. ...

Special Rapporteur’s March 2013 report on the situation of human rights in Iran

Special Rapporteur’s March 2013 report on the situation of human rights in Iran

March 13, 2013

The present report is the second to be submitted to the Human Rights Council, pursuant to Council resolution 16/9, and communicates developments in the human rights situation of the Islamic Republic of Iran that have transpired since the submission of the Special Rapporteur’s second interim report to the 67th session of the General Assembly (A/67/369) ...

Denial and Personal Attacks: Iran’s Larijani Responds at the UN

Denial and Personal Attacks: Iran’s Larijani Responds at the UN

March 12, 2013

United Nations Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed elicited a blustering response from the Iranian delegation when he presented the findings of his most recent report on the situation of human rights in Iran to the Human Rights Council yesterday. In remarks both yesterday and today, Iranian delegation leader and Iranian Human Rights Council head Mohammad Javad ...

Large Scale Arrests of Kurdish Civil Activists in Mahabad and Sanandaj

Large Scale Arrests of Kurdish Civil Activists in Mahabad and Sanandaj

March 12, 2013

Mahabad Intelligence Office forces have arrested several Kurdish civil activists and journalists over the past few weeks, transferring them to the Mahabad Intelligence Office’s Information Unit and telling their families not to talk about the arrests, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The identities of several of those arrested ...

Cartoon 46: First They Came for the Journalists. . .

Cartoon 46: First They Came for the Journalists. . .

March 7, 2013

Continuing the latest crackdown on journalists that began on January 26, Iranian officials banned three publications in Tehran today and arrested three more journalists this week. Since January 26, twenty journalists have been arrested in Iran. “Our aim is to prevent the emergence of a sedition prior to the elections,” Iran’s Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi ...

Press Crackdown Continues: 3 Publications Banned, 3 Journalists Arrested

Press Crackdown Continues: 3 Publications Banned, 3 Journalists Arrested

March 6, 2013

Today, March 6, Iranian officials banned Aseman weekly, Tajrobeh monthly, and Mehrnameh monthly, and security forces entered the Maghreb Newspaper offices and arrested the newspaper’s license holder Mohammad Mehdi Emam Naseri and political desk editor Alireza Aghaee Rad. Earlier this week, on March 3, security forces arrested an editor at the social science monthly magazine ...

Excessive Bail Set for Imprisoned Lawyer’s Brief Furlough

Excessive Bail Set for Imprisoned Lawyer’s Brief Furlough

March 6, 2013

While imprisoned Iranian lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani has technically been granted furlough, judicial authorities have set his bail so high as to effectively deprive him of it, his daughter told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The bail set for his furlough is approximately US$1 million, an amount entirely out of reach of Soltani’s ...

Iran’s Crackdown Continues: Another Journalist Arrested

Iran’s Crackdown Continues: Another Journalist Arrested

March 5, 2013

Continuing the latest crackdown on journalists that began on January 26, Iranian security forces arrested Mohammad Javad Rouh on Sunday, March 3. Rouh, currently an editor at the reformist monthly magazine Mehrnameh, has worked on the political desk of reformist newspapers for years. Since January 2013, 18 journalists have been arrested and sent to Evin ...

Podcast 56: Nikahang Kowsar on Editorial Cartoons

Podcast 56: Nikahang Kowsar on Editorial Cartoons

March 4, 2013

Nikahang Kowsar is a blogger, journalist, and political cartoonist who doesn’t shy away from controversy. In his cartoons, he frequently criticizes the Iranian leadership and draws attention to very sensitive issues, including human rights abuses. In today’s podcast, he talks to us about one cartoon in particular that drew in death threats, and even arrest ...

Cartoon 45: Forced Confessions

Cartoon 45: Forced Confessions

February 27, 2013

Last Tuesday, February 19, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry hinted at an upcoming broadcast of confessions from imprisoned journalists when it issued a third statement regarding the recent roundup of journalists in Iran. In the statement, the ministry bolstered its accusations of espionage and relations with a “network” related to a “British Government Spy Organization.” ...

Kurdish Political Prisoners Under Intense Pressure to “Cooperate” at Orumiyeh Prison

Kurdish Political Prisoners Under Intense Pressure to “Cooperate” at Orumiyeh Prison

February 22, 2013

Two female Kurdish political prisoners at Orumiyeh Prison have faced repeated summonses to the Prison Intelligence Unit this year, a local human rights activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Interrogators have pressured the women to provide televised confessions and to cooperate with the Intelligence Ministry, the activist added. ...

Iranian Intelligence Ministry Levels New Charges Against Journalists; Reveals Potentially Forced Confessions

Iranian Intelligence Ministry Levels New Charges Against Journalists; Reveals Potentially Forced Confessions

February 22, 2013

The Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced in its third statement on Tuesday, February 19, that in recent days more journalists have been summoned and interrogated about their relations with the “British Government Spy Organization.” Previously, 16 journalists were arrested beginning in late January, and their families fear they may have been pressured into false confessions while ...

Blogger Detained for Four Months Without Trial in Shiraz

Blogger Detained for Four Months Without Trial in Shiraz

February 21, 2013

A 30-year-old man has been detained for four months without trial on charges related to writing a blog in Shiraz, his sister told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Kaveh Taheri was arrested on September 23, 2012, and charged with “acting against national security” and “creating public anxiety in the virtual space.” After ...

Cartoon 44: Two Years Under House Arrest

Cartoon 44: Two Years Under House Arrest

February 16, 2013

Today marks two years since Iranian security forces prevented former presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, and cultural leader Zahra Rahnavard from leaving their homes. The three opposition leaders have been held under de facto house arrest ever since they requested a permit for a rally in solidarity with Arab Spring protesters in ...

An Unabashed Defense of Thugs

An Unabashed Defense of Thugs

February 13, 2013

(Commentary) What does it mean to defend something “unabashedly”? The use of the word “unabashed” here might mean that we have received a “shameful” proposal. In such cases, we usually mean that someone suggested something ugly to us without shame, whereas we feel he should have been more remorseful. What lies behind our expectation of ...

End arbitrary house arrests of Mousavi, Karroubi, and Rahnavard; free all prisoners of conscience

End arbitrary house arrests of Mousavi, Karroubi, and Rahnavard; free all prisoners of conscience

February 13, 2013

(February 13, 2013) The Iranian authorities should immediately release from arbitrary house arrest two former presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, his wife Zahra Rahnavard, author and political activist, and cease harassing or detaining without cause the couple’s two daughters and Mehdi Karroubi’s son, said the Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi and ...

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