Rahmatollah Bastani, a 51-year-old professor at Sistan and Baluchistan University was dismissed from his position. Bastani taught theology and Qoranic Studies for 21 years. He was arrested in Qom on 28 March during a funeral ceremony for Ayatollah Montazeri’s wife, and was imprisoned ...
Iran’s election came at a time when many women’s rights activists and their international supporters issued a protest statement addressed to ECOSOC. They called the news of Iran’s candidacy confirmation “shocking,” and asked Council members to oppose Iran’s request and to make Iran’s presence ...
Student sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the trial court of Eftekhar Barzegarian, a student activist at Mashad’s Ferdowsi University will be held on 2 May, 2010, with Judge Kavoosi presiding. According to a source close to Barzegarian, he ...
A political prisoner, released and tried in the past few months, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that even though he served four months in prison, was interrogated for over 300 hours, and has a case file containing some 400 pages of ...
Shiva Nazar Ahari, a human rights activist and member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, has spent more than 120 days in prison. She was arrested for the second time in one year on 20 December 2009. Previously, she spent 102 days in ...
27 April 2010 Your Excellencies, The news of the Iranian government’s candidacy for membership in ECOSOC’s Commission on Status of Women (CSW) has disturbed women’s rights activists worldwide. According to the available information, ECOSOC members will vote on Iran’s candidacy for a vacant seat from the Asia ...
Four months after being arrested, Majid Tavakoli, an Amir Kabir University student and member of the Islamic Student Association, continues to be deprived of access to his lawyers. Three months after receiving a sentence of eight years and six months’ imprisonment, five years’ deprivation of ...
This video was produced by the Campaign to raise awareness for the execution sentence of Mohammad Amin Valian, a 20 year old student sentenced to death for throwing stones during a protest. Watch this video on Youtube ...
Mohammad Reza Alipour, Deputy Commander of the Tehran Police said that the police intend to organize nongovernmental organizations in a “centralized” way, a signal to activists that creating new impediments for Iran ’s civil society is entering a new stage. In introduction ceremonies for his ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Behrouz Alavi, a student activist and member of the Islamic Association at Tarbiat Moallem University, described the condition of Shabnam Madadzadeh as critical and said: “Unfortunately, Shabnam is not in good physical condition. ...
Student sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that 40 days after the arrest of Dr. Ali Akbar Soroush, a Mazandaran University professor and head of Participation Front’s Mazandaran Branch, he remains at Sari’s Intelligence Ministry detention center under immense pressure and ...
Last Thursday, members of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran met with the three young American hikers arrested last July on Iran’s western border. The meeting was their third in the past ten months. During this meeting, Swiss diplomats representing US interests in Iran had long ...
Student activists told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Northern Iran security and judicial organizations continue their increasing pressure on activists. According to their report, last Tuesday morning, Nima Nahvi, a student at Noshirvani Industrial University in Babol and Hossein Jalil Nataj, ...
Saba Vasefi, a former professor at Shahid Beheshti University who is a women’s movement and human rights activist is one of the faculty members who has been deprived from her teaching job during the recent months and following the dismissal of several university teachers. In ...
Activist Kaveh Rezaei Shirazi has been summoned to turn himself in for commencement of his 1.5 year sentence in a case where Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence filed charges against him. Rezaei Shirazi is an activist with the One Million Signatures Campaign and an expelled student ...
After eight months in prison, Eftekhar Barzegarian was released from Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison. Barzegarian is a Ferdowsi University student activist who was deprived from continuing his education through four semester’s suspension and expelled from the university. He was released on guardianship (in lieu ...
With the travel ban of Hadi Esmaeelzadeh, a member of the Center of Human Rights Defenders, currently seven members of this human rights organization have been barred from leaving Iran. Some of the other members of the organization who have been banned from traveling abroad ...
In an interview about the Evin Prison Court which has been established for reviewing the cases of political prisoners, prominent Iranian lawyer and former Deputy Chairperson of the Iranian Bar Association Farideh Gheirat told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that access to her ...
On April 19, 2010, a group of political prisoners at Evin Prison wrote an open letter addressed to religious leaders, describing their difficult conditions including physical, sexual, and psychological torture, asking the clerics to state their positions vis a vis violations of fair trial procedures ...
In a widely published recent letter to Sadegh Larijani, Head of Iranian Judiciary, Mohammad Mostafaee, lawyer to a group of civil and political activists has objected to “numerous violations by Head of Branch 28 of Revolutionary Courts,” demanding closer oversight of court officers related to ...
Iranian journalist Omid Memarian testifying before Congress regarding internet freedom in Iran on 2 March 2010 ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a student activist reported the release of Ali Sepandar and Behzad Parvin, two members of the Central Council of the Islamic Association at Birjand University. The two students were being held in Birjand ...
A student activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Mohammad Reza Lotfi Yazdi, a Mashad student activist was released from Evin Prison today. He was released into the custody of a guardian (in lieu of bail). Mr. Lotfi Yazdi ...
Four months after his arrest, political activist Heshmatollah Tabarzadi remains in solitary confinement cells of Ward 209 of Evin Prison. According to his lawyer, his initial court which met for the first time last Wednesday was supposed to be today but was postponed again. ...
One week after the dismissal of Dr. Morteza Mardiha from his faculty post at Allameh Tabatabee University, the dismissal of two Elm-o-San'at University professors adds a new dimension to the campaign to dismiss faculty members who have different viewpoints from the government, or who have ...
