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Lawyer Released from Prison in Iran Describes Grim Conditions for Political Prisoners

Lawyer Released from Prison in Iran Describes Grim Conditions for Political Prisoners

April 14, 2016

Prisoners Face Denial of Medical Care, Refusal to Transfer Inmates to Hospital despite Life Threatening Illness, Solitary Confinement Aimed at Extracting False Confessions, ...

Iranian VP Summoned to Judiciary for Commenting on High Execution Rate of Drug Traffickers

Iranian VP Summoned to Judiciary for Commenting on High Execution Rate of Drug Traffickers

April 13, 2016

Shahindokht Mowlaverdi, Iran’s vice president for Women and Family Affairs, has been summoned to the Judiciary to explain a ...

Voices from Iran: What are your expectations of President Rouhani?

Voices from Iran: What are your expectations of President Rouhani?

April 11, 2016

 In this new video, the Campaign asks Iranians from all walks of life inside and outside Iran to share their hopes and expectations of Iranian ...

Journalist Afarin Chitsaz Held Incommunicado at Evin Prison for Five Months

Journalist Afarin Chitsaz Held Incommunicado at Evin Prison for Five Months

April 11, 2016

Status of Case and Charges against Her Remain Unknown Concern is growing for the well-being of newspaper ...

Disqualification of Elected Female Reformist MP Sparks Heated Debate in Iran

Disqualification of Elected Female Reformist MP Sparks Heated Debate in Iran

April 7, 2016

Two weeks have passed since Minoo Khaleghi’s election to Parliament in Iran’s recent elections...

Iranian Internet Freedom and Cyber Security at RightsCon

Iranian Internet Freedom and Cyber Security at RightsCon

April 5, 2016

Fundamental Changes in Content Delivery: Opportunities and Challenges On the first day of the RightsCon conference, hundreds of participants from around the ...

Peaceful Demonstrators for Animal Rights Arrested in Tehran

Peaceful Demonstrators for Animal Rights Arrested in Tehran

April 5, 2016

Phones of Film Star and Others in Gathering Illegally Confiscated by Police Hedieh Tehrani, a film star and ...

Young Woman’s Quest for Higher Education Exposes Iran’s Discrimination Against Baha’is

Young Woman’s Quest for Higher Education Exposes Iran’s Discrimination Against Baha’is

April 1, 2016

Rouhieh Safajoo, a student banned from Iranian universities because of her Baha’i faith and arrested for her online ...

Iranian Political Prisoner Goes on Hunger Strike To Protest Denial of Health Care

Iranian Political Prisoner Goes on Hunger Strike To Protest Denial of Health Care

April 1, 2016

Prisoner of conscience Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been on a wet hunger ...

Canadian Resident Sentenced to Three Years in Jail Shortly After Returning to Iran

Canadian Resident Sentenced to Three Years in Jail Shortly After Returning to Iran

March 28, 2016

Political prisoner Mostafa Azizi, one of many émigrés...

Iranian Judiciary Took No Action despite Formal Complaint Detailing Torture of Baha’is in Prison

Iranian Judiciary Took No Action despite Formal Complaint Detailing Torture of Baha’is in Prison

March 27, 2016

Letter Comes To Light Three Years after Brutal Physical Abuse of Detained Baha’is Details of torture ...

Cartoon 144: The Master’s Message

Cartoon 144: The Master’s Message

March 25, 2016

In a video message on the occasion of the Persian New Year, Norooz, prominent Iranian musician Mohammad Reza Shajarian announced ...

“Blood Money” Frees Imprisoned Ranger Who Killed Poacher In Self-Defense

“Blood Money” Frees Imprisoned Ranger Who Killed Poacher In Self-Defense

March 24, 2016

Gholam-Hossein Khaledi, an Iranian park ranger sentenced to death for killing a poacher in 2010, was released on March ...

In Brazen Electoral Interference, Hardliners Disqualify Female Reformist MP

In Brazen Electoral Interference, Hardliners Disqualify Female Reformist MP

March 24, 2016

Reformists Call on Rouhani to Stop Hardliners from Blocking Elected Candidates March 24, 2016—The reformist MP Minoo ...

Prominent Iranian Journalist Remains Hospitalized After Delayed Health Care

Prominent Iranian Journalist Remains Hospitalized After Delayed Health Care

March 23, 2016

Severe health problems are keeping prisoner of conscience Issa Saharkhiz, a prominent ...

Societal Demand in Iran for Female Representation in Government is Unstoppable

Societal Demand in Iran for Female Representation in Government is Unstoppable

March 22, 2016

Hardliners' Entrenched Resistance is Overcome in Polls An overlooked outcome of Iran’s recent elections is ...

New App Lets Iranians Download Information Via Satellite and Bypass State’s Internet Censorship

New App Lets Iranians Download Information Via Satellite and Bypass State’s Internet Censorship

March 18, 2016

Mehdi Yahyanejad, Toosheh's founder. A young company run by a group of ...

Iranian Political Activist Exiled Following Four Years of Imprisonment

Iranian Political Activist Exiled Following Four Years of Imprisonment

March 18, 2016

Saeed Madani, a political activist and academic, was exiled to the southern port city of Bandar Abbas on March ...

In Bid to Save Ailing Son, Political Prisoner’s Father Threatens Hunger Strike

In Bid to Save Ailing Son, Political Prisoner’s Father Threatens Hunger Strike

March 18, 2016

The father of ailing political prisoner Hossein Ronaghi Maleki will launch a hunger strike in front of the ...

Why the UN Human Rights Mechanisms Must Continue to Monitor Iran’s Human Rights Situation

Why the UN Human Rights Mechanisms Must Continue to Monitor Iran’s Human Rights Situation

March 14, 2016

This video explains why it is so imperative that the United Nations Human Rights Council ensures the Special Rapporteur and other UN mechanisms continue their critical work of monitoring Iran’s human rights situation, given the severe rights violations that persist ...

Iranians Looking Abroad to Escape State-Controlled Internet

Iranians Looking Abroad to Escape State-Controlled Internet

March 14, 2016

Data privacy and censorship concerns are driving Iranian companies and individuals to foreign Internet servers because domestic providers are ...

Cartoon 143: Norooz

Cartoon 143: Norooz

March 11, 2016

The Spring Equinox marks Norooz, the start of the Persian New Year. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran takes ...

Mass Child Marriage Ceremony in Iran Denied by Local Officials

Mass Child Marriage Ceremony in Iran Denied by Local Officials

March 10, 2016

Fifty high school students were married in a mass ceremony in the Iranian city of Parsian, according ...

Imprisoned Reformist Iranian Journalist Hospitalized After Prolonged Hunger Strike

Imprisoned Reformist Iranian Journalist Hospitalized After Prolonged Hunger Strike

March 10, 2016

Issa Saharkhiz, imprisoned reformist journalist and former political prisoner, was hospitalized on March 9, 2016 due to life-threatening health ...

Iran Elections: Reformists Win Voter Support Despite Roadblocks and Irregularities

Iran Elections: Reformists Win Voter Support Despite Roadblocks and Irregularities

March 8, 2016

While facing non-stop impediments, reformists and centrists achieved significant gains in Iran’s recent elections, ...

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