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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UN Committee Finds Widespread Discrimination Against Baha’is in Iran

UN Committee Finds Widespread Discrimination Against Baha’is in Iran

May 24, 2013

In a report issued May 21, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights found that Baha’is face “widespread and entrenched discrimination” in Iran, particularly in employment and education. The report also covered several other pressing human rights issues ...

Increased IRGC Forces Create Security State Atmosphere in Border Regions

Increased IRGC Forces Create Security State Atmosphere in Border Regions

May 23, 2013

At least 100 new IRGC forces have been stationed in the Kurdish border regions in Western Iran in recent weeks, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The forces are engaged in patrolling the area ...

Kahrizak Trial Ends: Families Await Ruling on Deaths in Prison

Kahrizak Trial Ends: Families Await Ruling on Deaths in Prison

May 23, 2013

The eleventh and final session of the trial for the deaths in Kahrizak Prison of three detainees in 2009 was held on Wednesday, May 22. Though the judge has not yet announced the adjournment of the trial, the lawyers told ...

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 ...

Security Forces and Police Vehicles Increase Monitoring in Tehran

Security Forces and Police Vehicles Increase Monitoring in Tehran

May 22, 2013

One day after the names of Iranian presidential candidates were announced by the Guardian Council, there was a tense security atmosphere in several areas of Tehran on May 22, following news of the disqualification of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar ...

Kahrizak Plaintiff Withdraws Murder Suit Against Mortazavi; No Witnesses Summoned

Kahrizak Plaintiff Withdraws Murder Suit Against Mortazavi; No Witnesses Summoned

May 21, 2013

The tenth session of the trial of former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi and two other officials for the deaths in Kahrizak Prison of three detainees in 2009 opened yesterday with the father of one of the victims withdrawing his “participation ...

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 ...

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, ...

Three Months after Crackdown in Mahabad, Three Remain in Custody

Three Months after Crackdown in Mahabad, Three Remain in Custody

May 20, 2013

Several Mahabad citizens arrested in February have been released on bail from Mahabad Prison over the past several weeks, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Two detainees, Farough Samani and his cousin Reza Samani, ...

Kurdish Death Row Prisoner Transferred, His Lawyer Arrested

Kurdish Death Row Prisoner Transferred, His Lawyer Arrested

May 20, 2013

A Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death has been transferred back to Orumiyeh Central Prison after spending 15 months inside the Semnan Central Prison, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Habibollah Golparipour had been ...

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 ...

Kurdish Tradesman Killed Before Brother’s Eyes

Kurdish Tradesman Killed Before Brother’s Eyes

May 15, 2013

A local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that as a result of shots fired on the vehicle of a group of Kurdish tradesmen (kasebkar) by the Arak Police Special Forces Unit on the road between ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

Kurdish Political Prisoner Transferred to Undisclosed Location, in Danger of Imminent Execution

Kurdish Political Prisoner Transferred to Undisclosed Location, in Danger of Imminent Execution

May 13, 2013

Habibollah Golparipour, a Kurdish political prisoner on death row, was summoned by the Semnan Central Prison officials on May 9 and informed that he must prepare himself for transfer to an undisclosed location, a local source told the International Campaign ...

Young Kurd Sentenced to Prison in Exile on Political Charges

Young Kurd Sentenced to Prison in Exile on Political Charges

May 13, 2013

Afshin Sohrabzadeh, 23, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison in exile at Minab Prison on charges of “moharebeh (enmity with God) through membership in Komalah Party,” a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Iranian Refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan

Iranian Refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan

May 13, 2013

Since the Iranian authorities won’t allow us to report from within Iran, this month we speak to several Iranian refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan who were imprisoned in Iran for their human rights activities. Iraq’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan has become ...

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 ...

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 ...

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