During an appearance on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s state television this week, Mohammad Javad Larijani repeatedly misrepresented the events of last week’s Human Rights Council session in Geneva. Larijani’s false statements were an attempt to conceal the wide range of objections faced by the ...
On the anniversary of Iranian elections, two students of human rights were arrested in Beijing outside the Iranian Embassy as they carried a sign that read: “Free Iran, say NO to theocracy.” Iranian Embassy authorities apparently could not tolerate even two protesters with the impending ...
In the past few months, students at Qazvin International University have faced an increase in sentences of expulsion, permanent deprivation from education, and other disciplinary actions. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has interviewed one of these students about summonses to the University’s ...
Six days after the arrest of Abdolreza Tajik, a journalist and member of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC), his family has been unable to obtain information on his condition. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has learned that the simultaneous arrests ...
Salman Sima, a student activist and member of the Advar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat student organization, has gone on hunger strike inside Evin Prison. Sima was arrested on 12 June 2010, his second post-election arrest, and is being detained at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp’s (IRGC) Ward ...
According to research done by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Arash Saghar, was a senior member of Mir Hossein Mousavi’s campaign in last year’s presidential election. He worked in Sunni areas of the country, in the Gonbad Kavoos region. He was arrested ...
The Iranian delegation at the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva anticipated an administrative meeting to review Iran’s periodic report about the situation of human rights in the country. They never imagined that the meeting would turn into a statement by 56 countries, criticizing ...
In the weeks leading up to the first anniversary of the June 2009 presidential election, dozens of journalists and political, student, and civil society activists were arrested or summoned and interrogated by security forces. Heavy prison sentences continued to be handed down in the past ...
The Fourteenth Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council continues in Geneva (31 May-18 June 2010). Last Thursday, head of the Iranian delegation, Javad Larijani, attended a meeting to review reports from Iran. Larijani had to observe explicit criticism of the human rights ...
Arseh Sevom, a newly-established NGO, has published a comprehensive report entitled “The Attack on Civil Society in Iran.” The report reviews the suppression of Iranian civil society by the Iranian government in recent years. The introduction describes the report’s contents: “This report does not concentrate ...
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has learned that human rights defender and women’s rights activist Saba Vasefi, has regained consciousness after she was injured in an accident two weeks. Vasefi was in a coma for over 100 hours following the accident. ...
Journalist Abdolreza Tajik was arrested today for the third time since last year’s disputed election. His arrest came after a verbal summons was issued for him to appear in the Ministry of Intelligence. He now joins other journalists who have been arrested in the past ...
Eyewitnesses have told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Basij forces had a widespread presence in Tehran and other cities such as Mashad, during a fresh wave of protests in Iran. Police and Basij forces were present everywhere, especially around university campuses, ...
Prominent Iranian poet and women’s rights defender Simin Behbahani has sent a message to Iranian authorities. In her message, made available to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Behbahani asked Iranian authorities to reconsider their approach to dissent and to prevent the ...
Prominent Iranian poet and women’s rights defender Simin Behbahani has sent a message to Iranian authorities. In her message which was made available to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Behbahani has asked the Iranian authorities to reconsider their approach and to ...
Following the defamation of Shirin Ebadi on Iranian State TV, by coercing her husband to make disparaging remarks about her, Ebadi’s daughter, Nargess Tavassolian, published this sarcastic letter, addressed to the intelligence agents who have been a constant presence in her family life. In ...
Eye witnesses told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Basij forces had a widespread presence in Tehran and other cities such as Mashad during a fresh wave of protests in Iran. Police and Basij forces were present all over town, especially ...
(Blog-Report from Inside Prison)- Evin Prison’s Ward 350, or Correctional Facility 3, which houses political prisoners has turned into the most crowded corner of the prison post-elections, suffering from poor conditions and posing many hardships for its residents. ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a reliable source confirmed that Saba Vasefi, a young human rights and women’s movement activist is in a coma following an accident last Tuesday. According to this source, a motorcycle ran into her ...
Ameneh Khatoon (Parvin) Fahimi is the mother of Sohrab Arabi, a young protester who was murdered in the aftermath of last year’s disputed presidential elections. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, she said that she would forgive the blood ...
In an unprecedented move, on 1 June 2010, Fars News Agency published a fabricated letter of resignation by Morteza Semyari, secretary of Cultural Commission of Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat student organization. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, one of Semiyari’s ...
Prominent labor activist Mansour Osanloo has been serving time at Rajaee Shahr Prison under poor health conditions for a long time. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, his wife, Parvaneh Osanloo, said that her husband has been put in ...
Former Deputy President of Iran, Seyed Mohammad Ali Abtahi, was attacked by plainclothes forces yesterday as he left a memorial service in Shahr-e-Rey, 9 miles outside Tehran. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has received reliable reports from witnesses who confirmed that the ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi called on the UN to send special rapporteurs to Iran to review cases of arbitrary arrest and torture before more executions take place. ...
Prominent Iranian film director, Jafar Panahi, has gone on a hunger strike since Sunday, 16 May 2010, to protest abuse and ill-treatment as well as continuous threats against his family members. During a telephone call to his family today, Panahi told them he is on a ...
