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Tehran Professor Decries Iran’s Criticism of UN Human Rights Expert

April 6, 2015

Tehran University Professor Sadegh Zibakalam (Right), and Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Marzieh Afkham (Left) The ...

Cartoon 107: Ali Motahari Attacked in Shiraz

Cartoon 107: Ali Motahari Attacked in Shiraz

April 5, 2015

Conservative Member of the Iranian Parliament Ali Motahari was attacked during a March 9, 2015 visit to Shiraz to deliver ...

Cartoon 110: People’s Share of the Nuclear Agreement

Cartoon 110: People’s Share of the Nuclear Agreement

April 4, 2015

As front line victims of several years of sanctions against Iran, and with news of an impending nuclear agreement, Iranians have every right to expect to see their ...

Initial Accord with Iran Holds Promise for Human Rights

April 2, 2015

But Risks of Hardline Backlash Remain The understanding reached on Iran’s nuclear program on April 2 is a welcome development, averting at least for now, an inexorable descent into confrontation, ...

Imprisoned Journalist Denied Furlough, Remains with Hardened Criminals

March 27, 2015

Saeed Matinpour Despite support from the Zanjan Province Prosecutor and prison officials, and repeated requests by family members, journalist Saeed Matinpour's furlough for ...

Imprisoned Human Rights Defender Denied Furlough Again

March 27, 2015

For the fourth year in a row, the ailing prominent human rights defender Mohammad Seifzadeh was not granted furlough for the Iranian New Year (March 20-April 1). Furlough, typically ...

Journalist Remains in Prison Beyond End of Sentence

March 27, 2015

The journalist Saeed Razavi Faghih has yet to be released from prison even though he completed his one-year sentence on February 28, 2015, because he is facing new, ...

UN Keeps Pressure on Iran for its Rights Failures

March 27, 2015

Human Rights Monitoring Will Continue March 27, 2015—The United Nations Human Rights Council voted today to renew the mandate of ...

Children’s Rights Activist Charged with “Acting against National Security”

Children’s Rights Activist Charged with “Acting against National Security”

March 19, 2015

Civil and children’s rights activist Atena Daemi has been formally charged, after six months of “temporary detention” in Evin Prison, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Suspects Identified, but No Action Taken in Attack against Critic of House Arrests

Suspects Identified, but No Action Taken in Attack against Critic of House Arrests

March 19, 2015

Despite the fact that several suspects have been identified in the recent attack on Member of Parliament Ali Motahari, who was the Iranian Parliament’s most outspoken critic of the continued house arrest of the Green Movement leaders, no arrests have ...

Under scrutiny, Iran Shows Increased, but Limited Cooperation with UN Mechanism

Under scrutiny, Iran Shows Increased, but Limited Cooperation with UN Mechanism

March 17, 2015

Four years into his mandate as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed told UN member states at a meeting of the Human Rights Council today in Geneva ...

Facebook Users Arrested, Others Will Be Arrested Soon, IRGC Warns

Facebook Users Arrested, Others Will Be Arrested Soon, IRGC Warns

March 13, 2015

More than 30 people have been targeted by the cyber crime unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) this month, including a dozen arrested for their “immoral” activities on Facebook. ...

Imprisoned Journalist Denied Medical Treatment for Serious War Wounds

Imprisoned Journalist Denied Medical Treatment for Serious War Wounds

March 13, 2015

Imprisoned journalist and political activist Serajeddin Mirdamadi is in need of urgent medical attention at Evin Prison’s infamous Ward 8, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Vigilante Violence: The Acid Attacks against Women in Iran and the State’s Assault on Women’s Rights

Vigilante Violence: The Acid Attacks against Women in Iran and the State’s Assault on Women’s Rights

March 5, 2015

The Iranian Parliament should immediately withdraw the pending Plan to Promote Virtue and Prevent Vice, which explicitly calls for Basij militias to enforce strict hijab (female dress). This plan not only violates the rights of all Iranian women, it also ...

Activist Ends Hunger Strike after Judge Agrees to Transfer to Evin’s Political Ward

Activist Ends Hunger Strike after Judge Agrees to Transfer to Evin’s Political Ward

March 5, 2015

Atena Faraghdani has ended her hunger strike in hospital, where she has been since her ...

UN Secretary-General Expresses Alarm about Executions, Retaliation Against Activists and Attacks on Women in Iran

UN Secretary-General Expresses Alarm about Executions, Retaliation Against Activists and Attacks on Women in Iran

March 3, 2015

In particular the Secretary-General voiced his concern about Iran’s chronic application of the death penalty to drug-related offenses, which do not qualify as the “most serious crimes”; the number of death penalty cases with a political dimension; the high incidence ...

Journalist Behind Bars Since 2009 Suffers Heart Attack in Prison

Journalist Behind Bars Since 2009 Suffers Heart Attack in Prison

February 27, 2015

The imprisoned journalist Massoud Bastani was transferred to the hospital on February 20, 2015, following a heart attack inside Shahid Rajaee Prison. The health conditions of Bastani, 37, who has been in prison since his arrest in the wake of ...

Cartoon 107: My Stealthy Freedom

Cartoon 107: My Stealthy Freedom

February 27, 2015

Shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the Islamic covering (hijab) was imposed on Iranian women, and serious penalties, ranging from warnings by Morality Police and arrests to imprisonment ...

Prisoner of Conscience Released After Nine Months of “Temporary Detention” At Deplorable Facility

Prisoner of Conscience Released After Nine Months of “Temporary Detention” At Deplorable Facility

February 27, 2015

Nine months after her arrest, the lawyer and prisoner of conscience Negar Haeri was released on bail of about US$580,000 on February 25, 2015. She spent her entire time in prison since her May 2014 arrest on “temporary detention orders.” ...

Rouhani’s Top Advisor Says Identity of Killer of Canadian Photojournalist Zahra Kazemi is Known

Rouhani’s Top Advisor Says Identity of Killer of Canadian Photojournalist Zahra Kazemi is Known

February 27, 2015

Ali Younesi’s reference to violations of human rights in Iranian prisons and courts defies the Iranian authorities’ consistent denial of reports of such violations by Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran, and ...

Activists Ask FIFA to Intervene to End Iran’s Ban on Women in Stadiums

Activists Ask FIFA to Intervene to End Iran’s Ban on Women in Stadiums

February 25, 2015

Referring to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, approved in 1997, the signatories added, “Any type of deprivation of fundamental rights or restricting such rights based on gender, aimed to or resulting in ...

Six Hanged in Orumiyeh Central Prison for Drug Trafficking

Six Hanged in Orumiyeh Central Prison for Drug Trafficking

February 20, 2015

Six prisoners on death row for drug trafficking were hanged on February 15, 2015 inside Orumiyeh Central Prison, according to a local source. The names of the six men are Saeed Bakhshali, Ebrahim Reyhani, Adel Kouhi, Khosrow Modiri, Rahim Soleimani, ...

After Years in Solitary Confinement, Mohammad Ali Taheri Faces New Trial on Corruption on Earth Charges

After Years in Solitary Confinement, Mohammad Ali Taheri Faces New Trial on Corruption on Earth Charges

February 20, 2015

Three-and-a-half years after the arrest and imprisonment of Mohammad Ali Taheri, the founder of a spiritual group who has been in Evin Prison since May 2011, the Iranian Judiciary will put him on trial again for “corruption on earth,” a ...

Free Them Now: End Arbitrary House Arrests of Green Movement Leaders

Free Them Now: End Arbitrary House Arrests of Green Movement Leaders

February 16, 2015

(February 17, 2015) – The Iranian Judiciary and Iran’s National Security Council should put an immediate end to four years of extrajudicial house arrest of Green Movement leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and Zahra Rahnavard, the International Campaign for ...

Omid Kokabee, in Letter from Prison, Accepts Prestigious Science Award

Omid Kokabee, in Letter from Prison, Accepts Prestigious Science Award

February 13, 2015

An acceptance speech [Link to full letter] by Omid Kokabee, written from his prison cell in Iran, was delivered at the Award Ceremony for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2014 Freedom and Responsibly Award on February ...

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