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Rouhani’s Citizenship Rights Charter Contradicts Constitution, Says Iranian Lawyer

Rouhani’s Citizenship Rights Charter Contradicts Constitution, Says Iranian Lawyer

January 9, 2014

In an exclusive interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, lawyer and human rights activist Mehrangiz Kar analyzed the various problems with the draft Citizenship Rights Charter presented by Hassan Rouhani last November, saying it is a “hodge podge of things” that both repeats and contradicts the Constitution, and it needs a ...

Intelligence Ministry May Be More “Flexible” in Respecting Human Rights, Says Lawyer

Intelligence Ministry May Be More “Flexible” in Respecting Human Rights, Says Lawyer

January 3, 2014

Ghasem Sholeh Sadi, lawyer and former Member of the Parliament and political prisoner, told the International Campaign for Human Rights that he is somewhat optimistic about the consequences of the draft Citizenship Rights Charter presented by President Hassan Rouhani in November. ...

Rights Lawyer Says Iran Needs Existing Laws Enforced, not a New Charter

Rights Lawyer Says Iran Needs Existing Laws Enforced, not a New Charter

January 3, 2014

Lawyer and member of the Defenders of Human Rights Center Mahnaz Parakand discussed necessary steps for implementing human rights protections in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “Before thinking to design a Citizenship Rights Charter, we must implement the Iranian Constitution, even with all its shortcomings. Many of the articles ...

Rights Lawyer Says Citizenship Rights Charter Is “Distraction”

Rights Lawyer Says Citizenship Rights Charter Is “Distraction”

January 3, 2014

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, lawyer Khalil Bahramian, who has represented many political prisoners, said the draft Citizenship Rights Charter is just a distraction for the public. ...

Officals and Clerics Verbally Attack and Threaten 2009 Protestors and Leaders

Officals and Clerics Verbally Attack and Threaten 2009 Protestors and Leaders

January 2, 2014

Over the past few days, influential Iranian leaders have unleashed a fresh wave of verbal attacks and threats against the 2009 post-election protesters and their leaders, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. The threats and attacks have included a hardliner cleric’s volunteering to hang Mousavi and Karroubi, as well as others stating that the chant ...

Rouhani Delivered on Rights Charter Promise “Immediately,” but Issue Is with Implementation, Says Lawyer

Rouhani Delivered on Rights Charter Promise “Immediately,” but Issue Is with Implementation, Says Lawyer

January 2, 2014

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, lawyer Farideh Gheirat said that the draft Citizenship Rights Charter presented by Hassan Rouhani in November is almost exactly like the Iranian Constitution in substance, just with different phrasing. Gheirat added that there was no need to draft a new Charter that was ...

Guardian Council May Approve Citizenship Rights Charter, Says Lawyer

Guardian Council May Approve Citizenship Rights Charter, Says Lawyer

January 2, 2014

President Hassan Rouhani’s draft Citizenship Rights Charter, currently before the Guardian Council, may win approval, lawyer and head of the National Iranian Bar Associations Union Bahman Keshavarz told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Prominent Activist Cites Numerous Omissions in Citizen Rights Charter

Prominent Activist Cites Numerous Omissions in Citizen Rights Charter

December 31, 2013

In a interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Narges Mohammadi, human rights activist and spokesperson for the Defenders of Human Rights Center, acknowledged that the Citizen Rights Charter was a positive step, but noted that the draft document contained many serious shortcomings that needed to be addressed. ...

Nasrin Sotoudeh Home Raided and Looted Two Weeks After 2012 Sakharov Prize Delivered

Nasrin Sotoudeh Home Raided and Looted Two Weeks After 2012 Sakharov Prize Delivered

December 27, 2013

Two weeks after a Euroepan Parliament delegation met with Nasrin Sotoudeh in Tehran to present the 2012 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the human rights lawyer’s home has been ransacked and looted in the family’s absence. ...

Draft Citizenship Charter Will Allow Continued Rights Violations say Human Rights Groups

Draft Citizenship Charter Will Allow Continued Rights Violations say Human Rights Groups

December 27, 2013

In a letter addressed to Hassan Rouhani, Iran's President, Human Rights Watch and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expressed appreciation for the draft Citizenship Rights Charter, but expressed deep concern over the consultation and preparation phases of the draft, its contents, and ...

Cartoon 71: “Dialogue Among Civilizati—!”

Cartoon 71: “Dialogue Among Civilizati—!”

December 19, 2013

Former Iranian President Seyed Mohammad Khatami's foreign travel ban has received fresh attention since Nelson Mandela's funeral. Mohammad Khatami, president of Iran from 1997 to 2005, introduced the idea of a Dialogue Among Civilizations as a response to Samuel P. Huntington’s theory of a ...

Cartoon 69: Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013

Cartoon 69: Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013

December 9, 2013

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Cartoon 68: Chain Murders: 15 Years Later

Cartoon 68: Chain Murders: 15 Years Later

November 25, 2013

Fifteen years after the chain murders of Iran, which began with the killings of Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar, their daughter Parastou Forouhar hoped to hold a memorial ceremony at her house in Tehran this week. The Iranian authorities, however, prevented people from entering her home, even blocking the street. ...

Mansour Farhang: Zarif and the Pursuit of Rights and Respect (Commentary)

Mansour Farhang: Zarif and the Pursuit of Rights and Respect (Commentary)

November 22, 2013

Mr. Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, has produced a YouTube video in which he asks all countries, particularly his negotiating partners in Geneva, to trust the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program. To the extent that this appeal is viewed as public diplomacy intended to facilitate a negotiated settlement of the nuclear dispute, his initiative ...

UN Shows Strong Support for Human Rights in Iran with 83-to-36 Vote

UN Shows Strong Support for Human Rights in Iran with 83-to-36 Vote

November 19, 2013

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes the United Nations General Assembly’s Third Committee vote today overwhelmingly supporting human rights in Iran, and urges the Iranian government to comply with UN human rights mechanisms and take concrete steps to address the ongoing violations in the country. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Cartoon 62: Adoption and the Guardian Council’s Choice

Cartoon 62: Adoption and the Guardian Council’s Choice

October 14, 2013

After weeks of public objections to the Iranian Parliament’s approving a new bill which would make it possible for foster parents to marry their adopted children, Iran’s Guardian Council decided in favor of the bill last week and approved its passage as the modified law for “Protection of Children and Adolescents with no Guardian [adoption ...

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 husband. Massoumeh Dehghan, ...

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 ...

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. ...

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