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UN STATEMENT: Independent UN Experts Urge Iran to Ensure Protection for Rights Defenders

UN STATEMENT: Independent UN Experts Urge Iran to Ensure Protection for Rights Defenders

May 7, 2012

In a statement released today, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders Margaret Sekaggya, and Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Gabriela Knaul condemned the Iranian ...

Cartoon 4:  Iran’s Border Burdens

Cartoon 4: Iran’s Border Burdens

May 4, 2012

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CIVICUS: Iran must revoke harsh sentences against human rights defenders

CIVICUS: Iran must revoke harsh sentences against human rights defenders

May 3, 2012

CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation has published a statement calling attention to the human rights crisis in Iran and, in particular, urging for the release of Mourning Mothers supporter Mansoureh Behkish, who was recently sentenced to four and a ...

Protestant Pastor Sentenced to Six Years

Protestant Pastor Sentenced to Six Years

May 2, 2012

After detaining 33-year-old Christian pastor Farshid Fathi for 16 months without indictment, judicial authorities finally sentenced him to six years in prison in April 2012. Fathi’s indictment is part of a continuing pattern of discrimination and persecution of Christian converts ...

Prominent Lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah Sentenced To Nine Years

Prominent Lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah Sentenced To Nine Years

May 1, 2012

Judge Salavati has upheld the nine-year prison sentence for prominent lawyer and distinguished human rights activist Mohammad Ali Dadkhah. Dadkhah told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he was only informed of the decision when he went ...

26 Days of Hunger Strike and Sewn Lips

26 Days of Hunger Strike and Sewn Lips

April 30, 2012

A local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Kurdish political prisoner Ali Moradi has sewn his lips and embarked on a hunger strike since 4 April to protest his “illegal exile from Minab Prison to ...

Judiciary Representative Takes Statement of Kurdish Death Row Prisoners

Judiciary Representative Takes Statement of Kurdish Death Row Prisoners

April 30, 2012

After months of receiving no response to their letters, Zanyar and Loghman Moradi, two Kurdish prisoners on death row, were finally visited by a Judiciary representative on Tuesday, 24 April. A Mr. Khodabakhshi, who identified himself as a representative of ...

Callous Border Security Guns Down 70 Couriers in Iran

Callous Border Security Guns Down 70 Couriers in Iran

April 26, 2012

The Iranian government should immediately investigate the numerous cases of border security forces killing couriers in the northwestern provinces of West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah, and hold accountable those responsible for such callous use of unlawful force, the International Campaign ...

Angels Of Iran: A Voice for the Voiceless: Roxana Saberi

Angels Of Iran: A Voice for the Voiceless: Roxana Saberi

April 26, 2012

Featuring journalist Roxana Saberi and Iran Specialist for Amnesty International USA Elise Auerbach, “A Voice for the Voiceless: Roxana Saberi” from the Angels of Iran series tells the story of Roxanna Saberi’s time in prison with Mahvash Sabet and Fariba ...

Narges Mohammadi in Undisclosed Location

Narges Mohammadi in Undisclosed Location

April 24, 2012

Prominent human rights defender Narges Mohammadi was arrested this Sunday and is currently in an unknown location. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Mohammadi’s husband Taghi Rahmani said that the family’s efforts to find ...

A Defiant Seifzadeh Awaits Ruling

A Defiant Seifzadeh Awaits Ruling

April 23, 2012

As the Iranian Judiciary continues to reschedule prominent human rights defender Mohammad Seifzadeh’s trial, he continues to refuse to attend the session. His wife and lawyer, Fatemeh Golzar, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his refusal ...

Local Citizens Protest in West Azerbaijan

April 23, 2012

A group of citizens from the town of Boukan on Friday gathered in front of the Governor’s Office in protest to the murder of a young girl and several child abduction cases. A local source told the International Campaign for Human ...

After 19 Months in Solitary, Death Row Inmate Finally Indicted

After 19 Months in Solitary, Death Row Inmate Finally Indicted

April 23, 2012

Kurdish political prisoner Behrouz Alakhani, currently being held in Orumiyeh Detention Center, is spending his nineteenth month in solitary confinemen. A local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Alakhani has been sentenced to death for ...

Widespread Detentions of Ahwazi Activists Mark Anniversary of 2005 Crackdown

April 19, 2012

Iranian authorities have detained at least 26 people in the city of Ahwaz and its surroundings in the southwestern province of Khuzestan during the weeks leading up to the April 15 anniversary of a 2005 protest and subsequent crackdown. ...

“None of Our Rights Have Been Observed,” Says Abdolfattah Soltani’s Wife

“None of Our Rights Have Been Observed,” Says Abdolfattah Soltani’s Wife

April 19, 2012

Massoumeh Dehghan, wife of prominent human rights defender Abdolfattah Soltani, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that neither her husband’s nor the family’s rights have been respected since his imprisonment almost eight months ago. Dehghan told the ...

Mourning Mothers Supporter Receives 4.5 Years in Prison for Visiting Graves

Mourning Mothers Supporter Receives 4.5 Years in Prison for Visiting Graves

April 18, 2012

On 3 April, authorities sentenced Mansoureh Behkish, a supporter of the Mourning Mothers, to 4.5 years in prison for “propagating against the regime” and “assembly and collusion against national security.” Speaking with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, ...

Angels Of Iran: For Kurdistan: The Soraya Fallah Story

Angels Of Iran: For Kurdistan: The Soraya Fallah Story

April 17, 2012

“For Kurdistan: The Soraya Fallah Story,” from the Angels of Iran series, profiles Iranian-Kurdish human rights activist and researcher Soraya Fallah and her daughter Cklara Moradian. Soraya was imprisoned four times and tortured so severely that she miscarried in solitary ...

Podcast 48: Underground Rock in Iran with Arash Sobhani, Pooya Hosseini, and Arash Farazman

Podcast 48: Underground Rock in Iran with Arash Sobhani, Pooya Hosseini, and Arash Farazman

April 9, 2012

For most of us, listening to any music that we want is just a way of life. But in Iran, musicians face censorship and Iranians cannot listen to anything they want. In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast, we talk to ...

Revolutionary Court Unqualified to Review Case, Says Mohammad Seifzadeh

Revolutionary Court Unqualified to Review Case, Says Mohammad Seifzadeh

April 6, 2012

“Mr. Seifzadeh will not appear at this court session again for the same reason as before–he does not recognize the Revolutionary Court as qualified to review this case. He believes he should be tried in the Tehran Province Criminal Court, ...

Nasrin Sotoudeh Denied Furlough, Telephone Contact

Nasrin Sotoudeh Denied Furlough, Telephone Contact

April 6, 2012

Prominent human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh was deprived of furlough and telephone contact with her family during the Persian New Year, her husband Reza Khandan told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran in an interview. “Unfortunately, after two ...

“I Am Not a Criminal. I Will Not Request Pardon,” Says Narges Mohammadi

“I Am Not a Criminal. I Will Not Request Pardon,” Says Narges Mohammadi

March 21, 2012

Narges Mohammadi, the deputy director of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) who was sentenced to six years in prison on 5 March by an appeals court, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she ...

Mohammad Davari’s Health Condition Deteriorates in Prison

March 20, 2012

Mohammad Davari, former editor-in-chief of Saham News website, has developed acute psychological illness in prison and is in critical condition, his brother Bijan Davari told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran in an interview. “Mohammad is not well ...

Execution of Kurdish Political Prisoner Looms

Execution of Kurdish Political Prisoner Looms

March 20, 2012

A source close to Habibollah Golparipour, a Kurdish political prisoner on death row, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his family is concerned about his imminent execution. “Yesterday, 15 March [2012], the prison guards called him ...

Abdolreza Ghanbari on the Verge of Execution

March 14, 2012

Imprisoned teacher Abdolreza Ghanbari’s pardon request has been denied by the Pardon Commission of Tehran Province Judiciary, a source close to his family told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. With the rejection of his pardon request, once ...

Special Rapporteur Receives Widespread Support in Human Rights Council

March 12, 2012

Iranian Delegate Responds Angrily Without Addressing Report's Content Head of Iran's ...

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