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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 ...

December 16, 2010

Weekly Rights Podcast 20

In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: Nasrin Sotoudeh is charged with not wearing a hejad for not wearing a headscarf in a 2008 YouTube video and Mohammad Javad Larijani comments on her charges; Christian pastors Youcef Nadarkhani and Behrouz Sadegh-Khanjani are being charged with apostasy; ...

December 16, 2010

Ebrahim Yazdi’s Deteriorating Health in Evin Prison

A reliable source recently spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran regarding the case of Ebrahim Yazdi. In the interview, the source alleged that security officers have demanded that in return for Yazdi’s release from prison, he promise not to have meetings ...

December 16, 2010

Update on Foreign Prisoners in Vakilabad Prison

On 17 November 2010, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported that a citizen of the Philippines, Ernie Tamonde, is being held in Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison on drug charges. The Campaign had received a letter from Tamonde in which he stated being held ...

December 15, 2010

Mohammad Davari’s Mother: “I Wish The Prison Phones Were Working”

Zolaikha Biyabani, the mother of imprisoned teacher and journalist Mohammad Davari, has been unable to travel to Tehran to visit her son due to poor health, old age, and distance. “I haven’t seen him in a long time,” she told the International Campaign for Human ...

December 14, 2010

Sotoudeh’s Husband Reacts to Javad Larijani’s New Charges Against Her

Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about the new charges raised against Sotoudeh after she began her third hunger strike since her arrest. “Mrs. Sotoudeh called home on Monday and talked to me and the children ...

December 14, 2010

Unionist Reza Shahabi on Wet Hunger Strike

Reza Shahabi, an imprisoned board member of the Union of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Sherkat-e Vahed), ended his dry hunger strike but remains on wet hunger strike. The information was confirmed by Hassan Shahabi, Reza Shahabi’s brother, who spoke with the ...

December 14, 2010

Majid Tavakoli’s Family Unable to Visit Him Due to Distance

The family of Majid Tavakoli, an imprisoned student who was arrested on National Student Day 2009 (7 December) at Amirkabir University of Technology, has not received any news from him for several months. His family lives in the city of Shiraz and has been ...

December 13, 2010

Blindfolds and Handcuffs for Sotoudeh During Visitation

Reza Khandan, human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, told the International Campaign for Human Rights In Iran that Sotoudeh was not brought to the visiting hour last Thursday for unclear reasons. Sotoudeh went on a dry hunger strike for the third time last week to ...

December 13, 2010

Mazandaran University Activist Summoned to Prison

An informed source in Babol told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that police and security forces attempted to arrest student activist Ashkan Zahabian at his home in Mazandaran on Tuesday without a warrant. The source told the Campaign that the forces attempting ...

December 12, 2010

Hossein Derakhshan Returns To Evin Prison

According to an entry made by Hossein Derakhshan’s sister on “Justice for Hossein Derakhshan: The Official Blog of Hossein Derakhshan’s Family and Friends For Dissemination of Information and Pursuit of His Situation,” he has returned to prison at the end of his two-day prison leave. ...

December 10, 2010

“God Willing, Your Daughter Is Still Alive,” Judicial Authority Tells Mother

Tehran Prosecutor’s has claimed that imprisoned journalist Nazanin Khosravani committed security offenses, some of which Khosravani has accepted, and criticized her mother, Aazam Afsharian for doing interviews with foreign media. Afsharian spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and said, “I was ...

December 10, 2010

Trade Unionist on Dry Hunger Strike, Grave Concerns for his Health

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today that the Iranian Judiciary must immediately release labor activist Reza Shahabi, who is currently on a dry hunger strike. ...

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