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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 ...

Why Have My Rights Been Trampled? An Open Letter from a Lawyer

Why Have My Rights Been Trampled? An Open Letter from a Lawyer

May 10, 2013

Massoud Shafiee, the lawyer who represented the three American hikers in Iran, shared an open letter to the Iranian authorities with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. In the letter, he calls out the Iranian authorities for confiscating ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Hadi Ghaemi on Brazil, Iran, and Human Rights

Hadi Ghaemi on Brazil, Iran, and Human Rights

May 8, 2013

In an interview at the 2013 National Meeting of Foreign Relations Students (ENERI) conference in Brasilia, Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, speaks about solidarity and the role of Brazilian civil society in ...

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 ...

103-Year-Old Political Prisoner Held at Maku Prison

103-Year-Old Political Prisoner Held at Maku Prison

May 8, 2013

Haj Ali Chilan, 103, is currently serving an eight-year prison term at Maku Prison on charges of “cooperating with PJAK [Party of Free Life of Kurdistan],” a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Chilan, from ...

Prisoner Hanged One Day After Suicide Attempt

Prisoner Hanged One Day After Suicide Attempt

May 3, 2013

Omid Sajjadi, a death row inmate convicted of drug trafficking charges at Bandar Abbas Prison, was hanged on March 22 after he attempted suicide by cutting a vein in his neck on March 21, a local source told the International ...

Dervish Issued Harsh Sentence to Intimidate Others

Dervish Issued Harsh Sentence to Intimidate Others

May 3, 2013

Kasra Nouri, 22, a Gonabadi Dervish imprisoned at Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz, has been sentenced to four years and four months in prison in part to intimidate other youth and prevent them from joining the Dervish sect, a close ...

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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

67-year-old Baha’i Prisoner’s Psychological and Physical Health Suffers

67-year-old Baha’i Prisoner’s Psychological and Physical Health Suffers

April 26, 2013

Riaz Sobhani, a 67-year-old Baha’i citizen imprisoned since June 2011 for financially assisting the Baha’i Institute of Higher Education (BIHE), is in dire physical and psychological conditions, especially considering his age, his son told the International Campaign for Human Rights ...

2013 Elections: Former MP Arrested for a Political Meeting That Never Happened

2013 Elections: Former MP Arrested for a Political Meeting That Never Happened

April 26, 2013

Former Member of Parliament Hossein Loghmanian and four reformist activists from Hamadan Province were arrested while on their way to Tehran to meet former president Mohammad Khatami on March 16, 2013. These arrests may mark the first detentions of political ...

Accused of Waging “Soft War,” Christian Pastor Beaten in Iran’s Evin Prison

Accused of Waging “Soft War,” Christian Pastor Beaten in Iran’s Evin Prison

April 23, 2013

Christian pastor Saeed Abedini was conducting a routine visit to the non-profit orphanage his family helped to start in Rasht when Iranian security forces arrested him and seized his passport in July 2012. Five months later, Iranian courts convicted him ...

Kurdish Former Political Prisoners Intimidated and Harassed in Orumiyeh and Mahabad

Kurdish Former Political Prisoners Intimidated and Harassed in Orumiyeh and Mahabad

April 19, 2013

Over the past several months, Orumiyeh and Mahabad Intelligence Offices have summoned, detained, and harassed several Kurdish former political prisoners on the pretext of concern over their continued political activities after their release from prison, a local source told the ...

City of Shiraz Advertises Public Hanging of Nine Armed Robbers

City of Shiraz Advertises Public Hanging of Nine Armed Robbers

April 19, 2013

The Public Relations Office of the Fars Province Judiciary reported on April 16 the public execution of nine individuals described as “armed robbers” and “members of three armed robbery gangs.” According to the Fars Judiciary report, the execution sentences of ...

Public Outcry in Kurdish City After Male Suspect Paraded in Female Clothing

Public Outcry in Kurdish City After Male Suspect Paraded in Female Clothing

April 18, 2013

A group of Kurdish activist women from Marivan, along with a few citizens of the city, held a demonstration April 16 on the main streets of the city in protest of the authorities’ parading a man in Marivan after dressing ...

Political Prisoner Ends Hunger Strike as Orumiyeh Intelligence Pressures Other Prisoners

Political Prisoner Ends Hunger Strike as Orumiyeh Intelligence Pressures Other Prisoners

April 17, 2013

Political prisoner Adel Jalali ended his 11-day hunger strike on March 28 after prison officials at Orumiyeh Central Prison agreed to cooperate with him, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The source added that ...

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 ...

Tehran Prosecutor Denies Furlough to Abdolfattah Soltani

Tehran Prosecutor Denies Furlough to Abdolfattah Soltani

April 16, 2013

Despite the family’s presentation of a property deed as collateral, Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi refused to grant furlough to imprisoned lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani, the latter’s daughter told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Maedeh Soltani told the ...

Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Eyesight Is Deteriorating in Prison

Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Eyesight Is Deteriorating in Prison

April 16, 2013

Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s eyesight is deteriorating in prison, but she has not been granted any leave to visit an ophthalmologist, her husband Reza Khandan told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Dervish Lawyers in Dire Health at Evin Prison

Dervish Lawyers in Dire Health at Evin Prison

April 16, 2013

Seven Dervish lawyers being held at the Intelligence Ministry’s Ward 209 at Evin Prison have not had access to light in months and have developed various illnesses, the wife of one of the lawyers told the International Campaign for Human ...

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