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January 4, 2011

Javad Larijani’s Admission to Ineffective Death Penalties for Drug Traffickers

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 ...

January 4, 2011

Three Years in Prison, Three Years in Exile, and a Three Year Ban on Speeches for Religious Scholar

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 ...

January 4, 2011

Lawyer: “Review of Habibollah Latifi’s Case Has Not Started 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 ...

January 2, 2011

Imprisoned Journalist Complains of Cold Cell and Lack of Access To Medicine

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 ...

January 1, 2011

Hoda Saber’s Wife: “Nobody Is Accountable”

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 ...

December 30, 2010

Two Women’s Rights Activists Get Six Months in Prison for Signatures

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 ...

December 29, 2010

“The Case Did Not Follow Its Legal Course,” Says Executed Man’s Lawyer

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 ...

December 29, 2010

Student Activist Faces New Charges in Prison

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 ...

December 28, 2010

“The Authorities Did Not Inform Us Of My Father’s Execution,” Says Ali Saremi’s Daughter

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 ...

December 28, 2010

Executions Of Two Prisoners At Evin Prison

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 ...

December 28, 2010

Latifi’s Execution Postponed To Review Family’s Appeal For Clemency

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, ...

December 28, 2010

“The Interrogator Told Me, ‘We Won’t Let You Get Less Than Ten Years,'” Sotoudeh Tells The Judge

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 ...

December 27, 2010

Habibollah Latifi’s Family Arrested; Concern Over Impending Execution

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 ...

December 26, 2010

Latifi’s Execution Halted Pending Further Review

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 ...

December 25, 2010

Latifi’s Lawyer Inside Larijani’s Office Requests Clemency And Postponement Of Execution

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 ...

December 25, 2010

Habibollah Latifi’s Family Make Last Effort To Save Him From Execution

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. ...

December 23, 2010

Halt Imminent Execution of Kurdish Student Habibollah Latifi

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 ...

December 23, 2010

With “Deep Concern” For Iran Rights Situation, Resolution Passes 78 For, 45 Against

The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution on Tuesday expressing deep concern about widespread violations of human rights in Iran, where government officials target human rights lawyers and direct the suppression of government critics. Seventy-eight countries voted for the resolution, forty-five against, while fifty-nine ...

December 21, 2010

Panahi’s Lawyer Concerned About Severe, Disproportionate Sentence

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Farideh Gheirat, filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s lawyer, shared her reaction to Panahi’s sentence. “I consider this sentence extremely heavy, and I will definitely object to it in the allotted deadline, requesting an appeal…This ...

December 20, 2010

Sotoudeh’s Deteriorating Health Ends Hunger Strike; Interrogators Tell Lawyer They Control Her Trial Outcome

Reza Khandan, Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, discussed her latest situation during an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “She called me fifteen minutes ago and we talked. The news about her transfer to the prison infirmary was accurate. She told me today ...

December 20, 2010

Ebadi: “Javad Larijani Does Not Understand Human Rights And Cannot Fill This Position”

Shirin Ebadi and six other women’s rights activists will hold a sit-in in front of the United Nations in Geneva to protest the dangerous situation of Nasrin Sotoudeh, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the Iranian Judiciary has lost its independence ...

December 20, 2010

Jafar Panahi Sentenced To Six Years In Prison, Banned From Making Films For 20 Years

According to a Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), film director Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison and 20 years’ ban from making films, writing any type of screen play, and traveling abroad by Branch 26 of Tehran Revolutionary Courts. Another Iranian film ...

December 20, 2010

Authorities Refuse Furlough For Student Activist After Eight Months In Prison

Amin Ahmadian, husband of student activist and prisoner of conscience Bahareh Hedayat told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he has not been allowed to have in-person visits with his wife for the past eight months and despite repeated appeals to judicial ...

December 19, 2010

Ahmad Ghabel’s Wife: “He Is Not Guilty, He Will Criticize The Regime Again If Necessary”

Marzieh Pasdar, wife of the religious thinker Ahmed Ghabel, talked to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about the sentence issued for him last week. “In our opinion, Mr. Ghabel is not guilty and the amount of time he has already spent in ...

December 16, 2010

Political Prisoners’ Families Detained, Interrogated, and Verbally Abused

A few hours after Fatemeh Maleki, wife of imprisoned Iranian filmmaker and blogger Mohammad Nourizad, was transferred to Tehran’s Modarres Hospital, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reached a source who told us about Maleki’s arrest and hospitalization. “Her psychological state was ...

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