Massoud Shafiee, attorney of three Americans who crossed the Iranian border by accident and were arrested six months ago told the International Campaign for Human Rights that during a meeting he had with authorities in charge of the three Americans’ case, he was promised a ...
Six months after the arrest of three Americans, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced in a television interview that Iran may be prepared to swap the three Americans with Iranians whom he says have been arrested by Americans in other countries. In an interview with Iranian state television, ...
At 4 a.m. today, plainclothes officers stormed the homes of Sahar Ghassem Nejad and Nazanin Hassan Nia, who belong to families of those executed in the 1980's, arresting both women. After searching the premises, the officers who had warrants from the Prosecutor's office took ...
Monday- Internet services in all the cities of Khorasan Razavi, South Khorasan, and North Khorsan provinces was cut off beginning on Monday morning. Several sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that while accessing Internet had come to a crawl on ...
Mashad has witnessed several weeks of attacks by Ansar and pro-government plainclothes forces on Mashad universities and Ayatollah Saneie’s offices in the city, refusal to deal with known thugs, arrests of more than 300 students of Mashad University, prolonging detentions, scores of open case files ...
Recently, Shirin Alam Holi, a Kurdish political activist was sentenced to death. In the indictment, her confession to having connections with the PJAK (Kurdish Independent Life Party), an illegal group in Iran, was the reason for her conviction. In a letter from prison, Ms. Alam ...
Sadegh Larijani, Head of the Iranian Judiciary, said on Sunday that a group in Iran are demanding “accelerated” punishments for protesters arrested during the post-elections events in Iran. He has added that such demands are politically-motivated and illegal. Though Larijani’s statement reveals immense political pressure ...
Shokoufeh Montazeri, sister of journalist Omid Montazeri and daughter of Mahin Fahimi, a member of Mothers for Peace, who were both arrested over a month ago, recently spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Omid Montazeri and Mahin Fahimi were arrested following ...
High ranking religious cleric Ayatollah Jannati, during his Friday prayer sermon on 29 January, addressed Sadegh Larijani, Head of the Judiciary of Iran, saying: “My brother. I know you well and I know you accepted your responsibilities with a good heart, intending to serve. You ...
Several student activists from Dafter-e Tahkim-e Vahdat (DTV) have told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that over the past several weeks, security forces have warned them that this popular student organization must stop its activities, otherwise its active members would be arrested ...
Tehran’s Prosecutor has announced that the cases of thirty-seven Ashura Day detainees, whose initial investigations are now complete, have been forwarded to Islamic Revolutionary Courts, bearing separate indictments. The Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) quoted the website of the General and Revolutionary Courts of Tehran ...
Different sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran today that the arrested members of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters are under pressure to deliver forced confessions about the Committee’s affiliation with the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO). Judicial authorities are trying to ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh, attorney of Arash Rahmani Pour, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: “Arash’s father spoke to me on the telephone today and he had not been informed of the execution. This shows that not only was the execution carried out in ...
Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaee, Jahanbakhsh Khanjani’s attorney, told the Iranian Student’s News Agency on Wednesday: “According to the verdict issued by Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Courts, Mr. Khanjani has been sentenced to one year of imprisonment on charges of ‘propaganda against the state,’ and five ...
Dr. Abbas Kazemi, a Communications professor at Tehran University’s Department of Social Sciences, was dismissed from his position because he had participated in the funeral procession of prominent dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Seyed Ali Montazeri. ...
In his speech at a gathering of high level judiciary authorities on Sunday, Sadegh Larijani said: “How can some people who are connected to certain political factions publish news and disseminate lies and divisive analysis under fake names and enjoy safety from which they create ...
Massoud Shafiee, attorney to the three Americans who were detained six months ago after they drifted into Iranian territory, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his efforts for accessing his clients have been unsuccessful and authorities in charge of the case ...
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran recently sat down with an Iranian refugee who spent 18 months in Turkey waiting for asylum. This refugee, who was working as a journalist in Iran, talks about issues surrounding seeking asylum in Turkey, financial difficulties related ...
While four members of the central committee overseeing the nationwide student organization, Daftar-e-Tahkim-e-Vahdat (The Office for Strengthening Unity), continue to remain in prison, several of their members and close associates told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that security authorities have increased pressure ...
Continuing our interview with Iranian asylum seekers who have left Iran over the past few months, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran talks to a long time journalist who has been waiting in Turkey for the past 4 months to receive asylum. He ...
Lili Farhadpour, a journalist, was one of those arrested following post-Ashura mass detentions of political and social activists and journalists. According to various sources, Farhadpour was arrested by security forces on Thursday morning, 21 January at her home. Farhadpour is one of the journalists who ...
Authorities refuse to provide any information pertaining to the case of women’s rights activist Somayeh Rashidi’s. Over the past few days, her temporary detention orders have been extended and she continues to remain in solitary confinement. ...
Mehdi Khalaji, son of Ayatollah Khalaji, a prominent Qum cleric who was arrested on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at his home in Qum, told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he believes that the only reason for this theological teacher's arrest is expressing ...
Mohsen Safaee Farahani and Behzad Nabavi, two prominent reformist political figures arrested after the 12 June 2009 presidential elections, have been sentenced to six-year prison terms. The court reviewing Safaee Farahani’s charges issued its final verdict 37 days after the last court session and 200 ...
While the Iranian Constitution allows for peaceful congregations which are not disruptive to Islamic principles, in recent actions against students participating in protests, 18 Dezful Azad University students were handed heavy punishments of deprivation of education for half a year, deprivation of education for a ...
