The use of Virtual Private Networks (VPN) by millions of Iranians to circumvent strict state censorship of the Internet could become a crime if a bill currently being discussed by the Iranian Parliament becomes law. ...
A Kurdish human rights lawyer has been tried on charges of membership in an illegal political group and propaganda against the state for providing information on prison conditions to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, a source told the International Campaign for ...
Nine prisoners found guilty of drug trafficking charges were hanged in the Karoun Prison courtyard in Ahvaz on May 12, 2014, after their sentences were confirmed by the Revolutionary Court, the Prosecutor General, and the Head of the Judiciary, the Khuzestan Province prosecutor’s office has ...
A prominent member of the Iranian Parliament who sits on the Press Oversight Committee has called on the Rouhani Administration to stop what he believes is the wrongful process of newspaper closures. ...
The source told the Campaign that in addition to lymphatic complications, Maryam Shafipour has been suffering ...
Report Noted Payment of $30 Million Bail One Day After Arrest The major Iranian daily, Ghanoon, was shut down on May 7, 2014, by judicial authorities who claimed ...
Two leading workers’ rights activists, arrested by security forces in Tehran at an International Labor Day gathering on May 1, 2014, remain in prison. ...
“The family is in complete darkness about my father’s physical conditions and not even allowed a telephone call with him…My father’s health conditions are alarming,” wrote Narges Mousavi, daughter of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the opposition leader who was abruptly hospitalized for emergency heart surgery ...
Justifying the April 17 raid on political prisoners at Evin Prison’s Ward 350, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, the Spokesperson for the Iranian Judiciary and the country’s Prosecutor General claimed on April 28 that the reason for the raid was that, “some individuals tried to make ...
In a letter to Yahoo!, nine human rights and online freedom organizations have urged the Internet giant to end its restrictions on users of its services inside Iran. As a signatory to the letter, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran urges Yahoo! to ...
On Tuesday, April 29, 2014, an emergency heart procedure was carried out on Mir Hossein Mousavi, the opposition leader who has been held under house arrest for three years, without the prior knowledge and consent of his family. ...
Former presidential candidate and opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, who has been held extra-judicially under house arrest for more than three years, was taken to hospital today for urgent heart complications, according to reports from Iran that the Campaign has independently confirmed. ...
Ebtekar Newspaper was banned after it published news pertaining to removal of Head of Iran's Prisons Organization from office after an April 17, 2014 brutal raid ...
The families of political prisoners who were assaulted by security guards in the brutal attack in Evin Prison’s Ward 350 on April 17 have yet to receive any response from a government panel appointed to investigate the incident. The attack on the inmates has prompted ...
A film clip shown on Iran’s state television denying the well-documented brutal assault on political prisoners at Evin Prison Ward 350 by security guards on April 17, 2014 has been described as “shameless” by the brother of one of the prisoners. The film, broadcast a ...
In a public letter to President Hassan Rouhani, 421 civil and political activists in Iran called on him to investigate the assault on political prisoners in Evin Prison’s Ward 350, which has now been called “Black Thursday.” ...
On April 17, 2014, more than one hundred guards and intelligence agents raided Evin Prison's Ward 350, where political prisoners are held, according to a Kaleme website report. Political prisoners were brutally ...
A week after a violent raid by prison officials at Iran’s notorious Evin Prison led to the beating, injury, and solitary confinement of many political prisoners, Iranian Judiciary officials continue to deny any use of violence while vivid testimonies from the families of the prisoners ...
Maryam Shafipour A source close to the family of imprisoned student activist Maryam Shafipour told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that judicial authorities have ...
Sattar Behesti, a blogger who died under torture by a prison interrogator, with his mother. The family of ...
Abdolfattah Soltani is serving a 13 year term in Evin Prison and his health is in critical ...
In a rare statement to the Iranian media on April 6, 2014, Javad Larijani, Head of the Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Council, admitted Baha’is in Iran are entitled to full and equal constitutional rights. ...
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and her delegation during her March 2014 negotiations with Iranian foreign ...
No political prisoners known to be among the 920 just pardoned. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has pardoned 920 Iranian prisoners on the anniversary of the ...
New Resolution Highly Critical of Iran’s Human Rights Record On Thursday, April 3, 2014, the European Parliament passed a resolution expressing grave concern over ...
