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Gender Segregation Gains Momentum in Iran: Women Prohibited from More Jobs

September 4, 2014

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

Imprisoned Scientist Denied Medical Treatment despite Severe Illness

September 4, 2014

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

Gender Segregation Violates the Rights of Women in Iran

September 3, 2014

Morteza Talai, Deputy Chairperson of the Tehran City Council  Commentary by Leila Mouri*  The recent ...

Hekmati Family Hopes for His Release, Three Years after Arrest

Hekmati Family Hopes for His Release, Three Years after Arrest

August 29, 2014

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

Imprisoned Journalist to Serve another 45 Days after Completing Five-Year Sentence

August 29, 2014

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

Remembering Simin Behbahani: Iran’s Legendary Poet And Advocate

August 29, 2014

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

Five Thousand Mine Workers Strike in Protest against Arrest of Strikers

August 28, 2014

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

Grand Ayatollah Issues Fatwa Stating High Speed Internet is against Sharia

August 27, 2014

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

Official Silence Continues on Washington Post Reporter’s Detention

August 12, 2014

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

“Happy” Video Participants to Go on Trial in September

August 12, 2014

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

Carton 90: “Dastardly and Unfair,” Says Sattar Beheshti’s Mother of Murderer’s Sentence

August 11, 2014

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

Sattar Beheshti Murderer Gets Three Years in Prison

August 9, 2014

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

While Officials Maintain Silence, Hardliners Make Baseless Accusations Against Jason Rezaian

August 6, 2014

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

Three Years after Representing American Hikers, Lawyer is Still Not Allowed to Work or Travel

August 6, 2014

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

August 1, 2014

Mirdamadi has been held in solitary confinement in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards' Ward 2-A ...

Journalists Jason Rezaian and Yeganeh Salehi Held in Secret Detention Center

Journalists Jason Rezaian and Yeganeh Salehi Held in Secret Detention Center

July 30, 2014

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

No Judicial Record of Arrested Washington Post Journalist, Says Family

July 28, 2014

Mary Rezaian (left), Jason Rezaian and Yeganeh Salehi Seeking information on Jason ...

Cartoon 89: Continued Arrests of Journalists in Iran

Cartoon 89: Continued Arrests of Journalists in Iran

July 27, 2014

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

57 Days into Solitary Confinement, Concern Grows Over Journalist Saba Azarpeik

July 26, 2014

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”

Raid Leaves Arrested Washington Post Journalist’s Home “Looking Like a Scene from Hell”

July 25, 2014

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 ...

Ruling of Combined 127-Year Sentence for Facebook Users Violates Iran’s Own Laws

Ruling of Combined 127-Year Sentence for Facebook Users Violates Iran’s Own Laws

July 24, 2014

A source knowledgeable about the case of eight young Iranians sentenced to heavy prison sentences for their activities on Facebook told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that in an illegal ruling, Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary ...

Another Baha’i Sentenced to Prison for Practicing Her Faith

Another Baha’i Sentenced to Prison for Practicing Her Faith

July 21, 2014

The Baha’i citizen, Shamis Mohajer, began serving her one-year prison term at Evin Prison on charges of “propaganda against the state” on June 28, 2014. Mohajer’s mother told the Campaign that her daughter turned herself in after being summoned to ...

Man Sentenced to Stoning in Iran’s Northern City

Man Sentenced to Stoning in Iran’s Northern City

July 21, 2014

A man has been sentenced to the punishment of stoning in the northern Iran province of Ghaemshahr. The Bolagh news website wrote that Head of the Ghaemshahr Judiciary in Mazandaran Province issued the stoning ruling. ...

Revolutionary Court Sentences Fifteen Baha’is to Prison on Baseless Charges

Revolutionary Court Sentences Fifteen Baha’is to Prison on Baseless Charges

July 18, 2014

A Revolutionary Court has sentenced fifteen Baha’is to between 1.5 and 3.5 years in prison on charges of “propaganda against the state” and “assembly and collusion against national security,” but their lawyer told the International Campaign for Human Rights in ...

Baha’i to Begin One-Year Prison Sentence for Practicing His Faith

Baha’i to Begin One-Year Prison Sentence for Practicing His Faith

July 17, 2014

A Baha’i man, Sarang Ettehadi, has been summoned to begin serving his one-year prison sentence on charges of “propaganda against the state through participation in Baha’i worship and prayer groups.” Ettehadi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran ...

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