This year’s International Day of Peace is marked by ongoing civil war in Syria, ratcheting up tensions between Iran and Israel, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s much anticipated final entry into the United States for his last General Assembly speech as president of Iran. As summer ends, ...
According to Iranian state news agency (IRNA), quoting the news website of Tehran Revolutionary and General Courts, former Member of the Iranian Parliament and Editor-in-Chief of the banned newspaper Zan, Faezeh Hashemi was arrested on Saturday night in Tehran, in order to begin serving her ...
Mohammad Nazari, a Kurdish political prisoner at Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, sewed his lips shut and embarked on a hunger strike on August 28, 2012, to protest the judicial authorities’ disregard for his request for release. “Considering Mohammad Nazari’s more than 19 years ...
“On Monday, August 27, Mohammad Nazari sent a letter to judicial authorities objecting to his conditions and stating that over the past several years, his family has pursued his case in the Revolutionary Courts in Mahabad and Orumiyeh and with the Supreme Leader’s Office, and ...
(September 11, 2012) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomed the release of Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani and said that cross-regional international attention from UN mechanisms, media, governments, and civil society and human rights organizations to the dire situation of human rights in Iran ...
Shortly after Ban Ki-moon left Tehran, Iranian Human Rights Council head Mohammad Javad Larijani criticized the UN’s human rights mechanisms publicly , including the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, on Iran’s State TV. Larijani’s remarks made it clear that Iranian officials are ...
Youcef Nadarkhani, a Christian pastor accused of apostasy and sentenced to death, was released from prison on Saturday, September 8. Announcing the news to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Nadarkhani’s lawyer, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, said, “At the court session on Saturday, ...
Commentary: Shortly after Ban Ki-moon left Tehran, Iranian Human Rights Council head Mohammad Javad Larijani criticized the UN’s human rights mechanisms publicly, including the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, on Iran’s State TV. (ISNA). (link in Persian) ...
Iranian journalist Issa Saharkhiz is on a hunger and medicine strike at Evin Prison in Tehran, his son told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. According to Mehdi Saharkhiz, Issa Saharkhiz embarked on a hunger strike on the evening of August 28, when ...
A human rights activist familiar with the case of political prisoner Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that recent developments in Khosravi’s case indicate that he may be executed in the coming days. The source added that the political ...
One of the prisoners, Mozaffar Dadi, 21, from the town of Kahnooj, who had arrived at the facility six months earlier on charges of engaging in a brawl, suffered major bleeding. Despite the prisoner’s need for immediate transfer to a hospital outside the facility, he ...
Baniyaghoub was arrested on June 20, 2009, along with her husband, Bahman Ahmadi Amoueee, at their home. Sixty days later, she was released on bail. In June 2010, she was sentenced to one year in prison and a 30-year ban on journalistic activities on charges ...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon promised the international community that he would address human rights during his trip to Tehran in late August. At the end of his trip, he announced only, “I have urged the authorities during my visit this time to release opposition leaders, ...
Speaking at the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s School of International Relations on August 30, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, ”I have urged the authorities during my visit this time to release opposition leaders, human rights defenders, journalists and social activists to create the conditions for free ...
(August 30, 2012) In a letter sent to Iranian officials, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran urged Iranian authorities to revise the Border Closure Plan immediately to prioritize the life and well-being of the residents of Iran’s border regions. The Campaign also urged ...
Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand, a prisoner of conscience who ended his 60-day wet hunger strike on July 27, told his family during his visit with them on August 27 that if the authorities do not address his requests, he will start a hunger strike and will ...
The Islamic Republic of Iran has had a contentious relationship with the UN in recent years. While Iran has experienced increased international isolation for its nuclear and foreign policies, the UN has repeatedly passed resolutions condemning Iran’s nuclear policies and human rights violations. In addition, ...
Two days after police and plainclothes forces attacked the earthquake relief camp and arrested 35 relief workers on Thursday, August 23, ten detainees (all of the female and three of the male detainees) were released on bail. The rest of the relief workers were transferred ...
In the early hours of August 23, 2012, security and Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) forces attacked a relief camp set up to help earthquake victims in Eastern Azerbaijan. Thirty-five volunteer students and relief workers who had gathered to help the victims of the August 11 earthquakes ...
Sixty-one political prisoners were released in the evening hours of August 15, and several more have received reductions in their prison term or reduced punishment. However, dozens of other political prisoners continue to be denied even one day of furlough. Most of the prisoners who ...
At midnight on August 23, security and IRGC forces attacked a relief camp set up to help earthquake victims in Eastern Azerbaijan. Thirty five volunteer students and relief workers who had gathered to help the earthquake victims at the camp, located on the road between ...
“Zanyar Moradi suffered severe torture after his arrest and was put under pressure to provide fake confessions. In an open letter, he spoke of torture by Intelligence Ministry interrogators. He suffers from severe back ache brought on by torture, and is also suffering from testicular ...
Omid Kokabi, 30, is a scientist who graduated from Tehran’s Sharif University. At the time of his arrest at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport as he intended to board a flight, he was a post-doctoral student at University of Texas at Austin. Kokabi was kept in ...
The Christian pastor’s earlier charges were “apostasy” and “converting to Christianity,” but the new charges of “banditry and extortion” were first mentioned last year on Fars News Agency. A source close to the case of Youcef Nadarkhani who wishes to remain anonymous on security grounds ...
Most of the prisoners who were released had already served half of their sentences. Iranian law stipulates that inmates who have served half of their prison term may be released conditionally. A considerable number of political prisoners remaining inside Evin Prison and other facilities have ...
