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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kurdish Prisoner Sentenced for Contacting Foreign Media and UN

Kurdish Prisoner Sentenced for Contacting Foreign Media and UN

March 5, 2013

A Kurdish prisoner charged with contacting foreign media and the office of the United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights in Iran has been sentenced to one year in prison in Orumiyeh, a local human rights activist told the International ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Ahvazi Men Confessed Under Torture; No Evidence Supports Charges, Family Says

Ahvazi Men Confessed Under Torture; No Evidence Supports Charges, Family Says

February 9, 2013

The only evidence in the case of five Arab Iranians sentenced to death and a sixth sentenced to 20 years in prison is based on confessions given under torture, a cousin of two of the accused told the International Campaign ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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