Ambiguity continues to surround the detention and location of Iran’s opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Zahra Rahnavard, and Fatemeh Karroubi. On 10 March however, Saham News quoted one of Mehdi Karroubi’s family members who said the lights inside the Karroubi’s home, located in ...
Mir Hossein Mousavi, and his wife Zahra Rahnavard, were visited for the first time by two of their daughters on Tuesday, 8 March. Mousavi and Rahnavard have been incommunicado for almost a month. During the meeting, Mousavi told his daughters that during a raid by ...
After almost a whole month of no information about the condition of dissident leader Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife, Zahra Rahnavard, two of their daughters were able to visit with them last Tuesday, 8 March. Mir Hossein Mousavi told his daughters during this meeting ...
After a month without news from Zia Nabavi after being transferred from Ahvaz’s Karoon Prison to an unknown location, his father, Seyed Ali Akbar Nabavi, spoke with the International Campaign with Human Rights in Iran saying, “We learned last week that he is at the ...
Judicial officials announced recently that the trial for Ebrahim Yazdi, head of the Freedom Movement of Iran, will be held on 13 March. His son-in-law, Mehdi Nourbakhsh, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, directly interfered in ...
Zanyar Moradi’s father, Eqbal Moradi, recently spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about his 19-year old son’s death sentence. “According to the news that I have heard from Zanyar and Loghman’s prison mates, the two of them have been put under ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, labor activist Mansour Osanloo’s sister, Fereshteh Osanloo, reported her brother’s dangerous health condition in prison and said he needs immediate surgery. “There is very little left of his prison term. He should ...
A local source in Babol told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that several activists arrested in the northern city during recent protests on 14 and 20 February have been released from prison, though the status of many detainees is still unknown. Those ...
Most of Iran’s women’s movement activists remain in prison on International Women’s Day, some with long sentences, others awaiting their sentence. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Reza Khandan, husband of Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer and human rights activist ...
Mahsa Amrabadi is a journalist who was arrested by security forces during 1 March gatherings. Her mother, Maryam Amrabadi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that her daughter contacted her at home. "She was well and said she was told that she ...
Seyed Hossein Javdani, a history lecturer at Payame Noor University, who was banned from teaching in the university for writing critical articles, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about how he was informed about his teaching ban. “According to the academic process ...
An informed source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Seyed Ali Saberi, a student at Bahar University in Mashad, has been detained inside the Intelligence Office Detention Center in Mashad for the past 20 days. Iranian laws forbid entry by security, ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Mohammad Tabarzadi, son of Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, Secretary General of Democratic Party of Iran, said he learned from news websites that an appeals court sentenced his father to seven years in prison. “My father’s ...
Journalist Mahsa Amrabadi’s mother, Maryam Amrabadi, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran after her daughter was arrested during protests on 1 March in Tehran. “She called us at three o’clock in the morning to tell us that she was in Evin ...
Following news that security forces stole Narges Mohammadi’s medical records, she spoke the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about her concerns after being informed of the news. “They contacted me from the hospital and told me that security forces have visited my medical ...
Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate and Director of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, has called on Iranians to hold public rallies on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 8 March, demanding reform of constitutional laws to achieve gender equality. She described her ...
An eyewitness who participated in the 1 March protests in Tehran shared details about his experience with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. He reported the presence of 14 to 16-year-old forces who carried police equipment, used BB guns and tear gas, and ...
Following news that student activist Zia Nabavi was transferred from Ahvaz Prison to an unknown location by security forces, his father, Seyed Ali Akbar Nabavi, expressed concern about the lack of information he has about his son. “Just last week, I heard the news about ...
As contradictory news about the house arrest or imprisonment of the two Iranian opposition leaders, Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, is reported and circulated, an informed source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the two political dissidents are no longer ...
"Their lights were out last night. There are no security forces on their street. They have been transferred," Says Neighbor of Karroubi Contrary to news from Tehran that opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi was under house arrest inside his home, a neighbor of Karroubi's told the International ...
The house arrest of prominent opposition figures Mir-Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, after members of parliament called for their execution and judicial authorities have not indicted or summoned them to appear in court, is another declining step for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s judiciary. Over ...
This is the “Weekly Rights Podcast.” A review of major human rights issues by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. It’s February 23rd and this is our 23rd weekly podcast: The government of Iran has once again denied its people permission to protest ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, Shirin Ebadi, criticized the Iranian government’s refusal to issue permits for peaceful demonstrations and said that authorities from Iran’s Interior ...
Shadi Sadr, an Iranian human rights lawyer, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that at least three people who participated in the 14 February protests have expressed that the tear gas used against the protesters was different from the ones used previously. ...
Today, 20 February 2011, an eyewitness student activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that tens-of-thousands of protestors in Tehran marching in the rain and security forces where out in significantly large numbers. On occasion, they used tear gas and arrested demonstrators. ...
