UN Working Group Calls on Iran to Release the Opposition Leaders
The UN WGAD is a body of five independent experts who review cases of arbitrary detentions, issue opinions, and communicate ...
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Cartoon 41: Executions in the Public Eye
Though public executions are nothing new in the Islamic Republic of Iran, two executions carried ...
Lawyer and Women’s Rights Activist Hopes Discriminatory Passport Law Does Not Pass
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” ...
Photo of the Day: Public Execution in a Sports Stadium in Iran
On Wednesday, January 16, Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) reported of the public execution of a man charged with rape in the city of Sabzevar in Khorasan Province. Although there have been many public executions carried out by the Iranian ...
Political Prisoner Illegally Transferred to Prison for Hardened Criminals after Letter to Supreme Leader
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. ...
Cartoon 40: Removing Language Through Education
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 ...
Podcast 54: On Internet Censorship and “Beyond the Electronic Curtain”
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 ...
Christian Converts Face Criminalization of their Faith in Iran
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 ...
Podcast 53: On HIV/AIDS Work in Iran, an Interview with Drs. Arash and Kamiar Alaei
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 ...
Eyewitness Report: Discriminatory Treatment of Iranian Passengers at Doha Airport in Qatar
A Qatar Airways passenger told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he and other Iranian passengers were exposed to discriminatory treatment at Doha Airport in December 2012. “Last December, a group of Iranian passengers had to spend ...
Abdol-Karim Lahidji: Judiciary’s Intimidation Tactics and Disproportionate Punishments Marks Its Failure to Deliver Public Justice
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 ...
Robbery and Double Intimidation: What’s Wrong With This Picture? By Hossein Ghazian
(Commentary) These days, the subject of violent robberies, usually carried out in public with knives and daggers, has become a hot topic in Iranian public opinion. Though armed robberies are not a new phenomenon, YouTube images captured by a surveillance ...
Yahoo! Mail Adds Secure HTTPS Option Following Internet Activists’ Letter
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 ...
Dadkhah in Strong Spirits, Daughter Thanks Officials for Allowing Visit
Maryam Dadkhah, the daughter of human rights lawyer and prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she was able to visit with her father on December 24 and 31, 2012, and ...
Solitary Confinement Cause of Soltani’s Illnesses, Says Daughter
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 ...
Podcast 52: Interviewing Sarah Hekmati about her Brother Amir, an American Imprisoned in Iran
Amir Hekmati, a 29 year-old US citizen and decorated Iraq war veteran, traveled to Iran in August of 2011 to visit his grandmother and extended family. Within weeks of entering the country for the first time, he was arrested, interrogated, ...
“Allow My Husband Medical Furlough,” Asks Union Activist Reza Shahabi’s Wife
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Robabeh Rezaei, the wife of imprisoned labor activist Reza Shahabi, spoke about her husband’s hunger strike in protest of the prison authorities’ refusal to allow him medical treatment ...
Cartoon 39: The Cyclist in the Cell
Prisoner of conscience Faezeh Hashemi, an outspoken women’s rights activist and former Member of Parliament, was placed in solitary confinement at Evin Prison on December 29, 2012. Her voice, which joined other prisoners in the women’s ward in leading political ...
Five Kurdish Political Prisoners Face New Charges
Along with several other political prisoners, the five Kurdish men had been transferred to ...
Lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah Suffers Memory Loss in Prison, Is Under Pressure to Confess on TV
The brother of founding member of the Defenders of Human Rights Center Mohammad Ali Dadkhah told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the prominent human rights lawyer is showing signs of impaired memory at Evin Prison, and ...
Stop Targeting and Harassing BBC Journalists’ Families in Iran
(December xx, 2012) The Iranian Judiciary and Intelligence agencies must immediately stop harassing the family members of journalists working abroad and ensure that security forces put an end to extrajudicial mistreatment, intimidation, and official misconduct, the International Campaign for Human ...
Mapping Iran’s Human Rights (Interactive)
Mapping Iran’s Human Rights, an ongoing project of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, highlights and explores major human rights violations in different provinces of Iran, beyond Tehran’s borders. Given this geographical overview of human rights violations, you ...
Cartoon 36: Interrogators Target the Sacred Union
In a letter addressed to Sadeq Larijani, Head of the Iranian Judiciary, political prisoner Abolfazl Ghadyani asks (LINK: ) that the Intelligence Ministry stop interrogators’ “harassment and the corruption” of the families of political prisoners. The letter, published December 11 ...
A Letter From Prison: Interrogator Told Wife of Political Prisoner to Divorce Husband
In a letter addressed to Sadeq Larijani, Head of the Iranian Judiciary, political prisoner Abolfazl Ghadyani asks him to stop the Intelligence Ministry interrogators’ “harassment and the corruption” of the families of political prisoners. The letter, published on Kaleme website ...
Cartoon 35: Sotoudeh the Defender
From October 17 to December 4, 2012, human rights lawyer and activist Nasrin Sotoudeh was on hunger strike to protest the foreign travel ban imposed on her 13-year-old daughter, Mehraveh. Along with her father, Reza Khandan, Mehraveh had been served ...