The 40th-day memorial service for labor activist Afshin Osanloo, who died on June 20 of what prison authorities announced as “a heart attack,” was held at Tehran’s Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery, under the close watch and direction of a large number of security forces. Afshin Osanloo’s ...
Foreign dignitaries invited to attend the inauguration of Iran’s president-elect, Hassan Rouhani, should use the occasion to demand a visit to opposition leaders under house arrest, and publicly call for their immediate release, the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...
Peyman Roshanzamir, a blogger and web designer from Ahvaz who was sentenced to 17 months in prison in 2011, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that security forces went to search for him at his father’s house last week, aiming to take ...
President-elect Hassan Rouhani ran on a platform of “Prudence and Hope,” and held up a large golden key at his campaign rallies to signify the doors he would unlock as president and the challenges facing Iran that he could solve as president. ...
With the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the death sentences of four young Arab men from Ahvaz on charges of “moharebeh” (enmity with God) and “corruption on earth,” the prisoners are currently in danger of imminent execution at Karoon Prison in Ahvaz. The four Arab ...
Since the arrests of several Khuzestan Province civil activists in Ahvaz in April, no information has been available on the conditions of Adel Seymari, Majid Bavi, and Mohammad Jaberi, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...
The IRGC and the Tehran Prosecutor have postponed transferring prisoner of conscience Feizollah Arabsorkhi to the hospital for months, his wife told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. He is in dire health, and has received official approval to go to the hospital, but ...
Ahmad Tamouee, a Kurdish political prisoner at Rajaee Shahr Prison, ended an illegal exile this week when he was first summoned by the Sentence Enforcement Unit and then transferred to Orumiyeh Prison on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 17, a local source told the International ...
Imprisoned journalist Fariba Pajouh, arrested July 10, is being held in solitary confinement without charges, a member of her family told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...
In reaction to the Medical Examiner’s Office’s final opinion stating that Sattar Beheshti’s cause of death could not have been blows while in detention, his mother recently demanded for his body to be exhumed to determine his real cause of death. ...
Imprisoned lawyer Mohammad Seifzadeh defended himself against charges of “writing letters and signing group statements in prison” in a July 17 appeals court session, his wife told the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Calling the his trial courts “unqualified” to try him, Mohammad Seifzadeh ...
Three young men died. Dozens of others were abused psychologically, physically, and sexually in Kahrizak Detention Center, where they were sent because they ...
After 37 days of lawyer Massoud Shamsinejad’s detention, Branch 5 of Orumiyeh Special Crimes Courts informed him of political charges against him, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Shamsinejad, an Orumiyeh lawyer who has represented many Kurdish political prisoners, ...
The Head of the Iranian Medical Examiner’s Office said on Tuesday, July 9, that according to his organization’s final report, the blows dealt to blogger Sattar Beheshti during his interrogation were not fatal and could not have caused his death, Mehr News Agency reported. ...
Security forces arrested journalist Fariba Pajouh on July 10 in Tehran, though a family member of hers told the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the reasons for her arrest are unclear. ...
Afshin Sohrabzadeh, a young Kurdish prisoner at Minab Prison, attempted suicide on Wednesday, July 3, in protest of his exile and what he called the “deplorable conditions” of the facility, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The source, a ...
One month after the arrest of three Christian converts in Isfahan, their conditions remain unknown and there is no news about their fate. According to reports from the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran’s sources, since the May 29 arrests of Mohammad Reza Farid, ...
Reza Khandan said that despite authorities’ promises for a furlough that could lead to Sotoudeh’s release, she was summoned back to Evin Prison and none of her letters requesting an extension of her furlough were answered. Khandan told the Campaign that his wife returned to ...
Over the past 24 hours, Mir Hossein Mousavi was transferred twice to the Tehran Heart Center. According to Kaleme website, after a two-month delay, on Tuesday, July 2, Mir Hossein Mousavi was transferred to the Tehran Heart Center for some medical tests. The Committee of ...
During his last days as president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered the Cabinet to eliminate and archive the General Bill on the Legal Profession. This decision faced sharp criticism from the Head of the Judiciary, though it pleased many lawyers who have been critical of the bill. ...
A lower court ruling in the Kahrizak case issued yesterday indicates that the three suspects in the case were permanently dismissed from judicial positions, and further dismissed from government employment for five years. To the astonishment of observers, Saeed Mortazavi, the prime suspect in the ...
Sixty-three political prisoners inside Ward 4, Hall 12, of Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj wrote a message of condolences to the family of Afshin Osanloo for the political prisoner’s death. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran received the message for publication. ...
In recent years, many Iranian musicians have left Iran in search of the freedom to create without censorship or fear of punishment for their work. Some have ended up in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region, which is known for its relative stability and security. There they ...
The lawyer for Sattar Beheshti, a blogger who died in November 2012 while in the custody of the Iranian Cyber Police (FATA), said her client’s case has not been forwarded to court and objected to the eight-month delay in an interview with the International Campaign ...
On the morning of June 10, eight Sunni prisoners at Rajaee Shahr Prison were asked to confess to certain actions for a documentary film, a source familiar with conditions of religious minority prisoners at the prison told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...
