New Details About The Kermanshah Raid
Photo: Mehr News AgencyOn October 10, 2013 The Kermanshah IRGC (Nabi-e Akram) website reported that "a network of ...
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October 14, 2013
Cartoon 62: Adoption and the Guardian Council’s Choice
After weeks of public objections to the Iranian Parliament’s approving a new bill which would make it possible for foster parents to marry their adopted children, Iran’s Guardian Council decided in favor of the bill last week and approved its passage as the modified law ...
October 12, 2013
Dismissed University Professor Awaits Response to Request for Reinstatement
Mohammad Sharif, lawyer and professor of law at Allameh Tabatabaee University who was dismissed from his academic job in April 2011, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that after recent statements by Jafar Tofighi, the Acting Minister of Science, about the return ...
October 12, 2013
Khuzestan Teachers Say Disallowing Mother Tongue in Schools Is Causing High Dropout Rate
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, two former Khuzestan Province teachers who currently live outside Iran said that the government’s refusal to allow the teaching and speaking of Arabic in schools has led to poor grades and an increase ...
October 10, 2013
Sattar Beheshti’s Mother: All Efforts Focused on Protecting Murderer
Sattar Beheshti’s mother told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the indictment issued for her son’s prison death case for “quasi-intentional murder” was unexpected. “We’re really disappointed with the indictment. Up until the time the indictment was issued, every time we saw ...
October 8, 2013
Iran Should Halt Executions as Rate of Hangings Accelerates
The Iranian authorities should impose an immediate moratorium on executions in Iran given the alarming rise in the use of the death penalty in recent weeks, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center said today. ...
October 8, 2013
Rouhani Cabinet Sends Mixed Messages About Facebook and Twitter
Just a few hours after the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported that Iran’s Minister of Communications Mahmoud Vaezi told reporters today that Facebook and Twitter will remain blocked in Iran, his ministry released an official statement saying that the unblocking of social networks is ...
October 7, 2013
Soltani’s Wife Sentenced for Accepting Human Rights Award on his Behalf
Massoumeh Dehghan, who has never had any political activities, was arrested and detained for six days in July 2011 on charges of traveling to Germany and receiving ...
October 7, 2013
Intelligence Office Summons Family Members of VOA Reporter
Journalist and blogger Arash Sigarchi, who works as a reporter for Voice of America’s Persian Service, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his family has been summoned and threatened by Gilan Province Intelligence Office forces. “On Monday, September 9, they contacted ...
October 4, 2013
Judge Claims Baha’i’s Death Was Suicide, Not Murder
Ataollah Rezvani, 52, was killed by a gunshot to the back of the head in his car on August ...
October 3, 2013
Journalist Issa Saharkhiz Released Two Months Prior to End of Sentence
Imprisoned Iranian journalist, Issa Saharkhiz, was released on Thursday, October 3, only two months short of completing his prison sentence. “I was informed by my family that my father received his release letter sy the hospital. They will now have to complete his paperwork in ...
October 2, 2013
Court Finalizes Six-year Sentence for Writing a Letter to Mohammad Khatami
Imprisoned lawyer Mohammad Seifzadeh appeared in court to defend himself against charges of “collusion and assembly against national security,” he wrote in a letter published September 29 on Kaleme website. Though judicial officials had told his family they planned on closing the case against him ...
September 30, 2013
New Campaign Launches to Ensure Iranians’ Access to Non-Sanctioned Goods
A coalition of civil society organizations has launched an international campaign to ensure access to medical and humanitarian goods for the Iranian people. Just Access, supported by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Arseh Sevom, United4Iran, and Sanctioned Life, aims to establish a ...
September 25, 2013
Cartoon 61: The Handshake
As Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani arrived in the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly, the major diplomatic issues of the day were Iran’s nuclear policy, its international relations, and regional disputes. Though hopes were high that Rouhani and US president Barak Obama ...
September 19, 2013
Prominent Iranian Musician Challenges Public Executions in New Music Video
Today the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran released the music video “Execution” by Okhtapus, featuring acclaimed Iranian singers Shahin Najafi and Majid Kazemi, which directly confronts the Iranian government’s routine practice of inhumane state executions. ...
September 18, 2013
Nasrin Sotoudeh, an hour after release: “They told me, ‘You are free.’ Other prisoners and lawyers should be released, too”
An hour after her release from prison, human rights lawyer and prisoner of conscience Nasrin Sotoudeh told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “When they took me out of the prison, they told me, ‘You are free.’ Last night they told four others. ...
September 18, 2013
Prisoners’ Release Welcomed Ahead of Rouhani UN Visit
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes the release today of several prisoners of conscience in Iran, including lawyer and human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani should continue to take concrete steps towards improving the urgent human rights situation in ...
September 18, 2013
Starred Students Face Reprieve
Iran’s Ministry of Science announced yesterday that Iran’s most recent “starred students” can enroll in universities. “Starred students” are university students who, over the past eight years, were banned from continuing their higher education as a result of their student and/or political activities, or their ...
September 17, 2013
Head of the Judiciary Called on to Explain Lack of Accountability for Prisoner of Conscience Arash Sadeghi
In a September 14 letter addressed to Iran’s Intelligence Minister, 250 Iranian journalists and political activists asked the Minister to review the troubling conditions of Arash Sadeghi, a former student activist who has been in custody since January 15, 2012. ...
September 17, 2013
Cartoon 60: The Lost Prisoner
In a September 14 letter addressed to Iran’s Intelligence Minister, 250 Iranian journalists and political activists asked the Minister to review the troubling conditions of Arash Sadeghi, a former student activist in custody since January 15, 2012. ...
September 13, 2013
Iran’s New Security Council Secretary Should End Illegal House Arrests
The newly appointed Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, should immediately review the situation of the opposition leaders under house arrest and prepare for their release, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...
September 12, 2013
House of Cinema Reopens in Tehran
Following a bitter struggle during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s tenure culminating in its closure, Iran’s House of Cinema reopened today in Tehran, with hundreds of jubilant cinema folks in attendance. The reopening was welcomed by many who see it as delivery on one of the many promises ...
September 11, 2013
Dissident Cleric Serving Additional Year in Prison for Calling Khomeini A Populist
Dissident cleric Arash Honarvar Shojaee told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran the Judiciary has issued new charges of “insulting Imam Khomeini” against him after he expressed his personal opinions in an interview. Furthermore, despite confirmation from the Medical Examiner about his health ...
September 10, 2013
Intelligence Ministry Interrogates Mourning Mother
Human rights activist Mansoureh Behkish, several of whose family members were executed by the Islamic Republic in the 1980s, was summoned to Intelligence Ministry again on Wednesday, August 26, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. She has been summoned to ...
September 6, 2013
Demanding Justice, an Interview with Reza Moini
In an interview with Kambiz Hosseini, host of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran’s “Five in the Afternoon” weekly podcast, Reza Moini, the head of Reporters Without Borders’ Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan desk, said that his brother lost his life during the 1988 ...