Several sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Dr. Ali Akbar Soroush has been under torture by the Mazandaran Ministry of Intelligence Office over the past few days to make confessions against himself. Dr. Soroush was a member of Mir ...

The New Year's furlough of Kian Tajbakhsh has been extended. Tajbakhsh is a researcher and an author who was arrested after the Iranian presidential elections and was sentenced to five years in prison after he made confessions against himself and others in show trials. ...

Mohammad Ghaznavian, a children’s and women’s rights activist has been arrested again. He was first arrested on 8 February 2010 in Qazvin and released on $20,000 bail on 20 February 2010. When he and his attorney appeared at the Revolutionary Courts in Qazvin yesterday to ...

Iran’s Minister of Justice announced last Wednesday that plans are under way to form a special court for Iranians abroad whose work will begin soon. During an appearance on Sunday at the High Council of Coordination with Iranians Abroad, Morteza Bakhtiari said that the Council ...

A source close to Arash Saghar, a senior member of Mir Hossein Mousavi's presidential campaign headquarters in a predominantly Sunni region told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that five months after ...

Kaveh Kermanshahi's temporary detention extended; informed of "propaganda against the regime" charge Temporary detention orders of Kaveh Kermanshahi, human rights activist and member of the One Million Signatures Campaign, have been extended for another month. Kermanshahi's trial court began on 5 April 2010. In ...

Acting as court officers, Iranian Police, the Ministry of Information, and Intelligence Units of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps have always interfered to varying degrees in arrests, interrogations, and trials, and have been known to harass the families of prisoners. But after the presidential elections ...

Student sources told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that following a March gathering to protest the sentences of Babol's Noshirvani Industrial University students and to send off fellow students Iman Sedighi and Mohsen Barzegar to prison, the university's Disciplinary Committee has issued unexpectedly ...

Taherah Saeedi, the wife of film director Jafar Panahi,who was arrested on 2 March 2010, has published a report about her husband’s condition in solitary confinement that has rendered him immobile and under emotional stress. She stated that in the past, her husband has twice ...

Mehdi Saharkhiz told the Campaign that his father’s hunger strike has caused a lot of worries for his family. Journalist Issa Saharkhiz's health has taken a turn ...

Daughters of prominent Iranian journalist and Secretariat of the banned Iranian Journalists Association, Badressadat Mofidi, have published a letter after a recent visit with their mother in prison. They have described immense psychological and physical pressure, violent and continuous interrogations, solitary confinement, deprivation of phone ...

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Mahta Bordbar, wife of Hessam Firouzi reported on the worrisome condition of her husband. Firouzi is an independent human rights activist and blogger who has been imprisoned since March 3, 2010. His wife ...

Iranian police have shot and killed a Kurdish man from Shandereh village in the Sardasht area of West Azerbaijan Province. Ribvar Nosrati (Shanderehi) was instantly killed when he was shot by a police officer. ...

Women’s and children’s rights activist Maryam Zia was released after three months in prison, after going on a hunger strike and being taken to the prison hospital. Zia’s sister confirmed her release, telling the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Zia’s condition deteriorated ...

Committee of Human Rights Reporters is an Iranian civil society organization which has faced immense pressure through arrests of its members after the June 2009 Iranian presidential elections. Iranian security and judicial authorities are currently posing very serious charges against this group and there ...

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes Aghaee's release and demands the release, and an end to the cases of other journalists who remain in detention for fabricated reasons and without due judicial process, or who have received very heavy bail orders disproportionate ...

Maryam Zia has begun a hunger strike to protest her illegal imprisonment. A a women’s and children’s rights activist and the Director of the Struggle for a World Deserving of Children, Zia has been detained in Evin Prison since December 27, 2009, following the ...

More than 900 social and political activists have signed a statement, demanding the unconditional release and fair trial of Omid Montazeri. The activists have expressed: “Issuing such a heavy sentence for a young man who has written about his society’s cultural and social issues within ...

Following the arrest of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani’s grandson and Faezeh Hashemi’s son, Hassan Lahooti, Iranian Judiciary authorities have asked him questions which explicitly demonstrate that Iranian intelligence organizations are eavesdropping on phone calls made by Iranian citizens. This indicates that Iranian judicial authorities are ...

An Appeals Court has upheld the sentence of Moshfegh Samandari, a student activist in Northern Iran. He has been sentenced to six months in prison. His charge has been stated as "propagating Bahai faith," and he had previously served 80 days in solitary ...

Saeed Leylaz, an economic analyst who was arrested after the Iranian elections, was released for the Persian New Year’s Holidays on $500,000 bail. Leylaz has been sentenced to five years in prison. Behzad Nabavi, a senior member of the Islamic Revolution Mujahedin Organization, has also ...

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expresses its deep concern about an attack on the home of Mehdi Karroubi, which is a clear sign of the spread of violence and hate by plainclothes forces who, unfortunately, enjoy the support of security and police ...

Less than one week before the upcoming Iranian New Year’s holidays, a media activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Mohammad Ali Ramin, Deputy Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, will most likely attempt to close down several publications before the ...