Cartoon 92: “Happy” Youths Charged With Illicit Relations
The Iranian youths who produced the dance video “Happy in Tehran” set to the Pharrell Williams hit song “Happy” were put on trial0 in Tehran on ...
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“Happy” Youths Go on Trial in Tehran
The Iranian youths who produced the dance video “Happy in Tehran” set to the Pharrell Williams hit song “Happy” were put on trial in Tehran on September 9, 2014, where they were charged with “participation in producing a vulgar video ...
More Than Two Months in Solitary Confinement for Protesting Exclusion of Women in Stadium
A young woman’s detention in solitary confinement continues after her June 30, 2014 arrest, following her earlier arrest and release outside a Tehran sports stadium when she tried to attend a volleyball game. Ghoncheh Ghavami’s lawyer, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaee, told ...
Imprisoned Baha’is Refused Early Release Unless They Repent
Three imprisoned Baha’is have been refused early release and furlough to visit their small children unless they recant their faith and pledge not to teach at the Baha’i university, a relative told the International Campaign for Human Rights in ...
Ten-Year Ban on Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Legal Practice Overruled: Prominent Human Rights Lawyer Returns to Law
A Lawyers’ Court at the Tehran Bar Association has determined that human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is able to continue her legal practice, according to an August 30, 2014 status update on her husband Reza Khandan’s Facebook page. ...
Gender Segregation Gains Momentum in Iran: Women Prohibited from More Jobs
The accelerated efforts to restrict women’s access to jobs, professions, and public venues continue in Iran. In the latest announcement, Colonel Khalil Helali, Head of the Public Buildings Office of the Iranian Police, said on August 30, 2014, that ...
Imprisoned Scientist Denied Medical Treatment despite Severe Illness
Omid Kokabi, an internationally recognized physicist serving a 10-year sentence, has not been allowed medical treatment outside Evin Prison despite his worsening kidney stone condition and stomach ailment, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...
Gender Segregation Violates the Rights of Women in Iran
Morteza Talai, Deputy Chairperson of the Tehran City Council Commentary by Leila Mouri* The recent sharp ...
Hekmati Family Hopes for His Release, Three Years after Arrest
Three years after his arrest in Tehran, US-born Amir Mirzaei Hekmati remains in prison. His family continues to hope that he will be released in time to see his father, who suffers from a terminal illness in the US. Hekmati’s ...
Imprisoned Journalist to Serve another 45 Days after Completing Five-Year Sentence
The Iranian Judiciary continues to imprison Mohammad Davari, a journalist who was instrumental in exposing human rights violations at the Kahrizak Detention Center and other prisons in the aftermath of the disputed 2009 elections, despite completion of his five-year sentence. ...
Remembering Simin Behbahani: Iran’s Legendary Poet And Advocate
The prominent Iranian poet, Simin Behbahani, died last week in Pars hospital in Tehran, at the age of 87. In her funeral ceremony, held on August 22, thousands of Iranians gathered to say farewell to one of the ...
Five Thousand Mine Workers Strike in Protest against Arrest of Strikers
In an increasingly tense and prolonged stand-off between striking miners, the Bafgh Iron Ore Mines, and judicial officials, which originally began in May 2014 over plans to privatize the mine, a new round of strikes at the mines began on ...
Grand Ayatollah Issues Fatwa Stating High Speed Internet is against Sharia
A Grand Ayatollah in Iran has determined that access to high-speed and 3G Internet is “against Sharia” and “against moral standards.” In answer to a question published on his website, Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, one of the country’s highest ...
Official Silence Continues on Washington Post Reporter’s Detention
Three weeks after Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife Yeganeh Salehi were arrested in Tehran, Iranian judicial authorities continue to refuse to provide any information about the reasons for the couple’s arrest or any news about their ...
“Happy” Video Participants to Go on Trial in September
The youths involved in making the “Happy in Tehran” dance video will be collectively put on trial on September 9, 2014, a source informed the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...
Carton 90: “Dastardly and Unfair,” Says Sattar Beheshti’s Mother of Murderer’s Sentence
Almost two years after the death of dissident blogger Sattar Beheshti under torture while in police detention, Cyber police interrogator Akbar Taghizadeh was sentenced to three years in ...
Sattar Beheshti Murderer Gets Three Years in Prison
Cyber police interrogator Akbar Taghizadeh has been sentenced to three years in prison, two years in exile, and 74 lashes for the murder of dissident blogger Sattar Beheshti, who died under torture while in police detention in November 2012. ...
While Officials Maintain Silence, Hardliners Make Baseless Accusations Against Jason Rezaian
After two weeks of silence by Iranian officials on the reason for the detention of husband-and-wife journalists Jason Rezaian and Yegabeh Salehi and their whereabouts, media with ties to security and intelligence organs believed to be holding them have begun ...
Three Years after Representing American Hikers, Lawyer is Still Not Allowed to Work or Travel
The prominent human rights activist and lawyer Massoud Shafiee, who represented three American hikers detained in Iran in 2009, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that since the hikers left Iran, he has been summoned and interrogated ...
Journalist Sentenced to Six Years in Prison after Returning to Iran
Mirdamadi has been held in solitary confinement in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards' ...
Journalists Jason Rezaian and Yeganeh Salehi Held in Secret Detention Center
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has learned that the journalists Jason Rezaian and Yeganeh Salehi, who were detained in Tehran on July 22, 2014, are being held in an unknown location. Except for a phone call to ...
No Judicial Record of Arrested Washington Post Journalist, Says Family
Mary Rezaian (left), Jason Rezaian and Yeganeh Salehi Seeking information on Jason ...
Cartoon 89: Continued Arrests of Journalists in Iran
Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post correspondent in Tehran, and his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, a correspondent for UAE's National newspaper, were arrested on the night of July 22, ...
57 Days into Solitary Confinement, Concern Grows Over Journalist Saba Azarpeik
Fifty-seven days after her arrest and detention by security forces, the young Iranian journalist Saba Azarpeik remains in solitary confinement at Evin Prison. The journalist’s family has been told that Azarpeik’s life and safety is at risk if they give ...
Raid Leaves Arrested Washington Post Journalist’s Home “Looking Like a Scene from Hell”
Jason Rezaian, Yeganeh Salehi, and a photographer were arrested in Tehran on the night of July 22, 2014, after their homes were raided by security forces. The agents also confiscated their personal belongings, including laptops, books, and notes, a ...