The Iranian Association of Scholars, based in Europe, has released a statement aimed at Western governments and in support of Iranian asylum seekers in Europe. The Association's statement comes after six Iranian asylum seekers have publicly sewn their lips together with fishing line to protest ...
A group of friends and colleagues of prominent Iranian journalist Bahman Ahmadi Amouee, a prisoner of conscience who has spent almost two years in Evin Prison, have undertaken a campaign to support him through raising public awareness about the conditions of Amouee and other political ...
Siamak Pourzand, a long-time journalist and former prisoner of conscience, has died at age 80 in Tehran, having been unable to see his wife and children for a decade due to a travel ban imposed on him by Iranian authorities. His daughter, Leili Pourzand, stated ...
Reza Khandan, husband of imprisoned Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Sotoudeh is in very poor conditions in prison and is planning to go on another hunger strike. He told the Campaign that ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Massoud Shafiee, lawyer for the three American hikers detained in Iran in 2009, said that he has received a court summons on behalf of Sarah Shourd to attend the 11 May trial session ...
Human rights lawyer and Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi discusses the challenges facing workers in Iran (video). ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Parvaneh Osanloo, bus worker union leader Mansour Osanloo’s wife, described her husband’s deteriorating health in prison and the refusal of prison officials to transfer him to a hospital. “His arteries are clogged again ...
Iran Newspaper, Tehran "The Supreme Court issued a rare final ruling, sentencing the suspect in an acid throwing case to eye gauging and earlobe cutting," the ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Saeed Sheikhi, political prisoner Shirkoo Moarefi’s lawyer, said that his client’s death sentence, issued on charges of “acting against national security” and “moharebeh” (enmity with God) and upheld by the Supreme Court, has ...
On the occasion of the International Labor Day on 1 May, seven Iranian labor organizations have published a statement, objecting to the violations of Iranian workers’ most basic rights. “While all over the world, the workers’ show their joy and passion and will to ...
The next trial session for the three Americans who were arrested on 31 July 2009 on Iran’s western border will be held on 11 May. Sarah Shourd, one of the three, was released on bail of $500,000 in September 2010 after it was disclosed that ...
A source close to the case of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that 3.5 months after filing an appeal on his sentence, no rulings have been issued. The source told the Campaign that Panahi remains in a ...
Mohammad Javad Sholeh Saadi, son of lawyer and former Member of the Parliament Ghassem Sholeh Saadi, who was arrested on 3 April, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “He was arrested based on a sentence of 1.5 years in prison for ...
Informed sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that several political prisoners and prisoners of conscience have been moved to Ghezel Hessar Prison in Karaj, and are currently detained under very harsh conditions at that facility, even though many of these prisoners ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Fatemeh Alvandi, mother of prisoner of conscience Mehdi Mahmoudian, said that her son has developed epilepsy in prison and is in dire physical and psychological shape. “As you know, Mehdi’s lungs were damaged ...
Following a hunger strike by political prisoners at Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, Ali Tabarzadi, son of political prisoner Heshmatollah Tabarzadi spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about his recent visit with his father. “I had a booth visit with my ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Marzieh Nikara, lawyer of prominent Iranian lawyer, Mohammad Seifzadeh, said that he has been in detention inside the ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Amir Raeesian, Mahdieh Golroo’s lawyer, talked about the new case raised at Branch 28 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court against his client and two other prisoners of conscience, Bahareh Hedayat, and Majid Tavakoli. “In ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Fatemeh Maleki, the wife of journalist and filmmaker Mohammad Nourizad, said she has had no word from her husband for the past month. “My last meeting with Mr. Nourizad was on 18 March, ...
On 17 April, reformist journalist Nazanin Khosravani was sentenced to six years in prison on charges of “assembly and collusion for acting against national security,” and “propagating against the regime” by Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court with Judge Pirabbasi presiding. ...
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: the Pen American Center honors Nasrin Sotoudeh with their Freedom to Write award for her human rights work; Camp Ashraf in Iraq, home to roughly 3500 members of the People’s Mujahideen, came under attack by the Iraqi military on ...
The names of 32 individuals to be sanctioned by the European Union (EU) was announced today. Reports indicated that 80 Iranian officials had been reviewed by EU officials. After a review of that list, the names of these 32 individuals, some of whom are top-ranking ...
False reports circulated in late March during Iranian New Year about the imminent execution of Shirkoo Moarefi, a 31-year-old Kurdish political and civil activist from Baneh who was arrested in November 2008 at the Iran-Iraq border. Moarefi was sentenced to death in a lower Revolutionary ...
While lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh was being awarded by the PEN American Center, her husband, Reza Khandan, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Sotoudeh withdrew her appeal request after her interrogators advised her that her 11-prison sentenced will ...
New York City, April 13, 2011—PEN American Center today named Nasrin Sotoudeh, a writer, lawyer, and leader of the women’s and children’s rights movement in Iran, as the recipient of its 2011 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. Sotoudeh was arrested on September 4, 2010, ...
