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Opposition Leaders’ Children Summoned ahead of Two-Year House Arrest Anniversary

Opposition Leaders’ Children Summoned ahead of Two-Year House Arrest Anniversary

February 11, 2013

Nearly two years since Iranian opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi, Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Zahra Rahnavard were placed under illegal house arrest in Tehran, Iranian authorities have summoned their children, a source close to the families told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

UN Rights Experts Urge Immediate and Unconditional Release of Opposition Leaders

UN Rights Experts Urge Immediate and Unconditional Release of Opposition Leaders

February 11, 2013

Today three United Nations experts spoke out against the continued detention of former Iranian presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi and cultural leader Zahra Rahnavard, as well as the recent detention and interrogation of their children. This Friday, February 15, will mark two years of the opposition leaders’ house arrest. ...

Shirin Ebadi: Iran’s Judiciary Is a Subsidiary of the Intelligence Ministry

Shirin Ebadi: Iran’s Judiciary Is a Subsidiary of the Intelligence Ministry

February 10, 2013

Following the arrest of Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran’s former press court judge and prosecutor, Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “The timing and the manner of arrest of Saeed Mortazavi, a suspect in the Kahrizak Detention Center case and the Zahra Kazemi murder case, once again showed that ...

Abdol-Karim Lahidji: Mortazavi Deserves Arrest for Prior Brutality

Abdol-Karim Lahidji: Mortazavi Deserves Arrest for Prior Brutality

February 7, 2013

Former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi should be prosecuted for his role in prisoners’ deaths, not political score-settling, prominent lawyer Abdol-Karim Lahidji told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Mortazavi, currently the head of Iran’s Social Security Organization, was arrested Tuesday and detained for 24 hours following a public exposé by President Ahmadinejad during ...

As Second Round of Journalists Arrested, Intelligence Ministry Threatens Even More

As Second Round of Journalists Arrested, Intelligence Ministry Threatens Even More

February 6, 2013

Another wave of summonses and arrests of journalists has taken place in Iran, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced on February 5. In a statement published by Fars News Agency, affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, the Intelligence Ministry stated that the journalists were arrested for their contact with the BBC and that the arrests, which ...

Podcast 55: Dr. Ahmed Shaheed on Freedom of Expression

Podcast 55: Dr. Ahmed Shaheed on Freedom of Expression

February 5, 2013

“Discrimination is . . . quite widespread, whether it’s based on gender, religion, or ethnicity,” Dr. Ahmad Shaheed tells us in this latest podcast. In March of 2011, increased international concern about Iran’s human rights crisis led to the appointment of a United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the ...

Cartoon 43: Inventing the BBC Connection

Cartoon 43: Inventing the BBC Connection

February 4, 2013

In the last week of January, Iranian security forces arrested at least 16 journalists and charged them with “spying and ties with foreign news organizations.” Iranian authorities are accusing the journalists of working with the Persian-language services of the BBC and Voice of America, based in the UK and the US, respectively. ...

Scientists Call for Release of Imprisoned Iranian Physics Student

Scientists Call for Release of Imprisoned Iranian Physics Student

February 1, 2013

Two years since the arrest and subsequent imprisonment of Iranian physicist and student Omid Kokabee, scientific societies are redoubling their efforts to secure his release. Students from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) have released a short film about his situation. ...

200 Journalists Demand Swift Release of Their Colleagues Arrested in Iran

200 Journalists Demand Swift Release of Their Colleagues Arrested in Iran

January 31, 2013

Nearly 200 Iranian journalists inside and outside Iran signed a statement, objecting to the widespread arrests of fellow journalists which began on Sunday, January 27 and has continued this week. The journalists asked Iran’s judicial authorities to release their colleagues immediately and prove that they respect the law. ...

Cartoon 42: Iranian Journalism Behind Bars

Cartoon 42: Iranian Journalism Behind Bars

January 30, 2013

On Sunday, January 27, 2013, Iranian security forces raided the editorial rooms of Tehran-based newspapers and publications Bahar, Shargh, Arman, Etemad, and Aseman Weekly, and arrested several journalists. According to reports, the forces entered the offices of the five publications simultaneously and, in addition to arresting the journalists, searched and videotaped the premises. ...

Iranian Artists Depict the “Agony of Contemporary Iran” in New Book

Iranian Artists Depict the “Agony of Contemporary Iran” in New Book

January 29, 2013

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is proud to announce the publication of a groundbreaking new book at the crossroads of art and human rights: Sketches of Iran: A Glimpse from the Front Lines of Human Rights available now at Amazon.com. In this unprecedented collection of drawings, editorial cartoons, and portraits of human ...

Massive Arrests of Journalists in Tehran After Prosecutor Hints “Mouthpiece of Enemy”

Massive Arrests of Journalists in Tehran After Prosecutor Hints “Mouthpiece of Enemy”

January 28, 2013

Security forces raided editorial rooms of Tehran-based newspapers and publications Bahar, Shargh, Arman, Etemad, and Aseman Weekly, and arrested several journalists who worked there. According to reports, the forces entered offices for the five publications simultaneously and in addition to arresting the journalists, searched and videotaped the premises. ...

Iranian Judiciary Must Halt Death Sentences and Investigate Torture Claims

Iranian Judiciary Must Halt Death Sentences and Investigate Torture Claims

January 25, 2013

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran demands that the Iranian Judiciary suspend the execution sentences of five Ahvazi Arab activists, conduct an independent investigation into the judicial process of the case, and investigate the suspects’ allegations of torture during their investigations. The five men are said to be activists in or founders of ...

UN Rights Experts Urge Iran to Halt Executions of Five Ahvazi Activists

UN Rights Experts Urge Iran to Halt Executions of Five Ahvazi Activists

January 25, 2013

Today five independent experts from the United Nations called on the Iranian government to halt the executions of five Ahvazi Arab activists. The UN experts include the UN Special Rapporteurs on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, on extrajudicial, ...

Sotoudeh Swiftly Returned to Prison, More Political Prisoners Furloughed

Sotoudeh Swiftly Returned to Prison, More Political Prisoners Furloughed

January 22, 2013

Authorities had earlier told Sotoudeh that she would be granted a long furlough, but she was summoned to Evin Prison after only three days. Several other political prisoners have also been released on furlough over the past few days, including student activist Bahareh Hedayat; journalists Bahman Ahmadi Amouee, Ahmad Zeidabadi, Mahsa Amrabadi, and Massoud Bastani; ...

UN Working Group Calls on Iran to Release the Opposition Leaders

UN Working Group Calls on Iran to Release the Opposition Leaders

January 22, 2013

The UN WGAD is a body of five independent experts who review cases of arbitrary detentions, issue opinions, and communicate their concerns to governments regarding alleged cases of arbitrary detention. The WGAD acts under the ...

Lawyer and Women’s Rights Activist Hopes Discriminatory Passport Law Does Not Pass

Lawyer and Women’s Rights Activist Hopes Discriminatory Passport Law Does Not Pass

January 21, 2013

Lawyer and women’s rights activist Farideh Gheirat told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the new Passport and Exit Law bill, which will make it mandatory for girls and women to have the approval of their “guardian” (father, husband, or paternal grandfather) to exit the country, is at odds with the Iranian ...

Political Prisoner Illegally Transferred to Prison for Hardened Criminals after Letter to Supreme Leader

Political Prisoner Illegally Transferred to Prison for Hardened Criminals after Letter to Supreme Leader

January 19, 2013

Asked when the transfer would take place, Marzieh Rahimi told the Campaign, “We have no idea. He was scheduled for a February 14 trial for one of the letters he wrote. I’m not sure which letter this trial was about. But the trial session was suddenly held on Monday, January 7. The Judge said, ‘I ...

Cartoon 40: Removing Language Through Education

Cartoon 40: Removing Language Through Education

January 19, 2013

While the population of Kurds in Iran is close to seven million, nearly 10% of the total Iranian population, the Kurdish people continue to be systematically isolated and discriminated against. One of the main demands of Iranian Kurds has been to allow them to use the Kurdish language in their education and textbooks. However, since ...

Podcast 54: On Internet Censorship and “Beyond the Electronic Curtain”

Podcast 54: On Internet Censorship and “Beyond the Electronic Curtain”

January 18, 2013

Today we speak with award-winning journalist Tara Kangarlou about her new film, “Beyond the Electronic Curtain,” and the issue of Internet censorship in Iran. “Beyond the Electronic Curtain” documents the effects of unrelenting censorship on Iranian society. Through the stories of the many journalists in Iran who have been imprisoned for doing their job, the ...

Christian Converts Face Criminalization of their Faith in Iran

Christian Converts Face Criminalization of their Faith in Iran

January 16, 2013

The 73-page comprehensive report, The Cost of Faith: Persecution of Christian Protestants and Converts in Iran, documents a pattern of rights violations that extends to all walks of life for Protestant converts in Iran: they face severe restrictions on religious practice and association, arbitrary arrests and detentions for practicing their faith, and violations of the ...

Podcast 53: On HIV/AIDS Work in Iran, an Interview with Drs. Arash and Kamiar Alaei

Podcast 53: On HIV/AIDS Work in Iran, an Interview with Drs. Arash and Kamiar Alaei

January 14, 2013

Drs. Arash and Kamiar Alaei are brothers who built one of the world’s most successful community-based approaches to treat and fight HIV/AIDS in Iran. Their work included a widespread use of needle-exchange programs, as well as using methadone management for therapy. In addition, the brothers would often advocate for their patients in other ways, including ...

Abdol-Karim Lahidji: Judiciary’s Intimidation Tactics and Disproportionate Punishments Marks Its Failure to Deliver Public Justice

Abdol-Karim Lahidji: Judiciary’s Intimidation Tactics and Disproportionate Punishments Marks Its Failure to Deliver Public Justice

January 11, 2013

Following the announcement of death sentences for two men who were charged with violating public security through “robbery,” prominent lawyer and Vice President of the International Federation of Human Rights (IFHR) Abdol-Karim Lahidji told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the main focus of the Iranian Judiciary’s penal policies is on increasing ...

Yahoo! Mail Adds Secure HTTPS Option Following Internet Activists’ Letter

Yahoo! Mail Adds Secure HTTPS Option Following Internet Activists’ Letter

January 9, 2013

In a letter dated November 13, 2012, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran joined 25 other organizations and activists in asking Yahoo! to provide the HTTPS option to its users. The Campaign welcomes Yahoo!’s recent addition of this option, as the secure communications protocol will give Iranian Yahoo! users the ability to send ...

Solitary Confinement Cause of Soltani’s Illnesses, Says Daughter

Solitary Confinement Cause of Soltani’s Illnesses, Says Daughter

January 3, 2013

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, the daughter of Abdolfattah Soltani said that her father was hospitalized two weeks ago, following a deterioration in his health. Maedeh Soltani told the Campaign that the Iranian judicial authorities finally agreed to her father’s medical treatment outside the prison after months of ...

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