The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has learned that the second and last trial session of journalist and human rights activist Kaveh Ghassemi Kermanshahi was held this morning in Branch One of Kermanshah’s Revolutionary Courts with Judge Moradi presiding. ...
Fatemeh Maleki, wife of prisoner of conscience Mohammad Nourizad, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about her first in-person visit with her husband after a two-month ban on visitations. “Last Tuesday we had an in-person visit with Mr. Nourizad. Thank ...
An informed source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that two political prisoners from the province of Azerbaijan, Dr. Latif Hassani and Ayat Mehrali Beigloo are under threats from prison authorities for additional limitations and harsher treatment. Both prisoners have gone on ...
A source close to the case of imprisoned journalist, Nazanin Khosravani, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that despite claims that she is charged with “acting against national security,” during her only meeting with her family, she told them that she has ...
A human rights activist close to Zia Nabavi, a prisoner of conscience, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that prison authorities at Karoun Prison in Ahvaz stopped an in-person visitation between Nabavi and his family who had traveled for 20 hours to ...
Over the past few days, there have been reports of the Iranian Judiciary’s orders for carrying out the prisoner of conscience, Jafar Kazemi’s death sentence. His lawyer Nasim Ghanavi, talked about her reactions to the news with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...
After two trial sessions in Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court with Judge Pirabbasi presiding, lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh’s sentence was served to one of her lawyers today. Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran ...
While various media have published news of an appeals court's ruling of four years in prison and 74 lashes for human rights activist Shiva Nazar Ahari, her lawyer, Mohammad Sharif has not yet been served with the ruling. "I have not yet been officially served ...
The National Lawyers Guild, on 3 January 2011, issued a letter (LINK: http://www.nlg.org/news/announcements/national-lawyers-guild-urges-the-release-of-human-rights-defenders-in-iran/) calling for the release of human rights defenders facing arrest and prosecution inside Iran, including Nasrin Sotoudeh, Mohammad Oliyafar, Mohammad Seifzadeh, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, and Abdolfattah Soltani. The National Lawyers guild ...
Reza Khandan, husband of prominent Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he was summoned to Branch One of Evin Prison Court, stating that he has to appear at Branch One within seven days. ...
An informed source close to family of student activist and prisoner of conscience, Majid Tavakoli, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Tavakoli's brother was released several hours after being interrogated by Ministry of Intelligence forces on 5 January. The source said ...
While news reports indicate that Jafar Kazemi's execution orders have been forwarded to Evin Prison's "Sentence Implementation Unit," and he is in danger of imminent execution, a human rights activist familiar with this prisoner of ...
Jinoos Sharif Razi, lawyer to Iranian-Dutch citizen, Zahra Bahrami, who was arrested during the Ashura Day Protests in 2009 (27 December 2009), talked to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about her client's recent death sentence. "Ms. Bahrami has two charges. Her first ...
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has been informed that with the start of the new academic term and enrollment period at Mashad's Ferdowsi University's Department of Engineering, in addition to the increased restrictions forced on students, unprecedented gender segregation has been imposed ...
In a letter to the Tehran Prosecutor, Gholamhossein Arshi, a 31-year old prisoner who was arrested following the Ashura Day 2009 [27 December 2009] protests, after he was identified by security forces in a photograph published on news websites, has written about his torture during ...
Mother of Emad Behavar, the imprisoned head of the Youth Branch of Freedom Movement of Iran, sentenced to ten years in prison in a lower court, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that while the political prisoner's defense bill has not yet ...
While the number of executions related to drug trafficking has startlingly increased in the recent months in Iran, a foreign diplomat told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Javad Larijani, Chief of the Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Council, has expressed in his ...
Ahmad Ghabel, a theological researcher and government critic, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran after being released on $50,000 bail by Branch 5 of Mashad’s Revolutionary Courts. “I do not have any new charges. It was claimed that there are new ...
Nemat Ahmadi, one of the two lawyers representing Habibollah Latifi, a Kurdish student who was scheduled for execution last week on the charge of moharebeh, enmity with God, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that no new developments have happened in his ...
Azam Afsharian, mother of imprisoned journalist Nazanin Khosravani talked to the international Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about her first visit with her daughter, two months after her arrest. “Today was a very good day for me, as I was able to see my ...
The wife of Hoda Saber, journalist and a Nationalist-Religious activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she has no knowledge about the reasons for her husband’s recent arrest. “I want my husband’s unconditional release, because his imprisonment was unjust and without ...
An appeals court upheld the sentences of Maryam Bidgoli and Fatemeh Masjedi who are women’s rights activists and members of the One Million Signatures Campaign. Bidgoli and Masjedi will now begin serving sentences of six months in prison and will pay fines of $200 in ...
Hossein Aghili, lawyer of political prisoner Ali Saremi, who was abruptly executed on Tuesday, 28 December, talked to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about his client's case. "I am about to have a meeting with Tehran Judicial authorities about this right ...
Student activist Mahdieh Golroo’s husband told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Golroo, arrested in December 2009 and currently at Evin Prison, has been informed of new charges against her. “I do not know how someone who is in prison could disturb ...
Zeinab Saremi, daughter of Ali Saremi, who was executed in Tehran’s Evin Prison on Tuesday morning on the charge of moharebeh, enmity with God, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Iranian authorities had not informed the family of her father’s impending ...
