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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A few hours ago, the Islamic Republic News Agency announced executions of two prisoners, Ali Saremi, an alleged member of the Mojahedin-e Khalgh Organization (MEK), and Ali Akbar Siadat, referred to as “an operative of an espionage service,” on Tuesday morning. Their charge was ...

In an interview with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s News Agency, IRNA, Saleh Nikbakht, lawyer of death row prisoner of conscience Habibollah Latifi, whose execution was postponed at the last moment, said that the execution orders were stopped to review the family’s appeal for clemency, ...

The trial court of lawyer and human rights activist, Nasrin Sotoudeh, held on Monday, December 27, 2010 on the new charge of “lack of hejab,” was stopped due to Sotoudeh and her lawyer’s objections to the manner in which the court was held. The judge ...

Following news of postponement of Habibollah Latifi’s execution, an informed source in Sanandaj told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that several members of the prisoner of conscience’s family were arrested by security forces on Saturday night. Additional information indicates that certain individuals ...

Sunday 4:00 pm Tehran time: The execution sentence of the Kurdish student, Habibilah Latifi, was halted today after widespread protests within Iran as well as by the international community. According to his lawyer, Saleh Nikbakht, this development should provide "at least two more months" for ...

Nemat Ahmadi, lawyer of Kurdish student Habibollah Latifi, who has been sentenced to death, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he is presently at the Head of the Judiciary’s office to deliver a letter addressed to Sadegh Larijani, requesting clemency for ...

Niece of Habibollah Latifi, a university student whose execution is scheduled to take place on Sunday, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Latifi’s entire family and his lawyer have gone to Sanandaj Prosecutor’s Office to request a stay of execution. ...

Habibollah Latifi's lawyer, Saleh Nikbakht, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he has been served with his client's execution orders and the Kurdish university student will be hung on Sunday, 26 ...