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April 12, 2010

Kouhyar Goudarzi: “I Won’t Be Released Any Time Soon,” Trial Date Unknown

Quoting the General and Revolutionary Courts of Tehran, IRNA News Agency reported on Sunday that the case file of Kouhyar Goudarzi, member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters has been submitted to the courts along with his indictment. Mina Jafari, Goudarzi’s lawyer told the ...

April 11, 2010

Two Death Sentences Overturned: Reza Khademi, 12 Years, and Ayoub Porkar 20 Years

Nasrin Sotoudeh, lawyer for two prisoners, Ayoub Porkar and Reza Khademi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the initial court’s death sentences for her clients has been overturned, and that the two prisoners were sentenced to long prison terms instead. ...

April 10, 2010

Mother of Prisoner Says Tehran Prosecutor Responsible For Her Son’s Health

In an open letter widely published in the media, Fatemeh Alvandi, mother of Mehdi Mahmoudian, declared Tehran’s Prosecutor responsible for her son’s dangerous physical condition, due to damages he sustained during his detention. Mahmoudian is a journalist, a member of the Participation Front Information Committee, ...

April 9, 2010

American Hikers’ Lawyer: My Clients Are Not Spies

While Iran’s Minister of Intelligence announced on Thursday that definitive evidence exists that the three imprisoned American hikers were cooperating with US intelligence organizations, promising to share the evidence with the media, their lawyer told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the ...

April 9, 2010

Green Ribbon Evidence of Crime in a Prisoner’s Case

An attorney representing those arrested during the post elections protests told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that during the visits he has had to the Revolutionary Courts, he has observed cases where a green bracelet or ribbon were used as evidence of crime ...

April 9, 2010

Judge Salavati Denies Temporary Release Request for Mohammad Yousefi

The latest news from student activist Mohammad Yousefi, who has been imprisoned since December 7, 2009, is that his and his family's repeated requests for a ...

April 9, 2010

Mahdieh Goloroo’s Husband: Charges of Relations with MKO are Ridiculous!

Mahdieh Golroo, a women’s rights activist and expelled Allameh University student, was tried in court without the presence of her attorney. In proceedings similar to the trials of other arrested members of the “Right to Education Council,” Golroo did not have her attorney present and ...

April 8, 2010

Pressure on Dr. Ali Akbar Soroush for Confession

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 ...

April 8, 2010

Kian Tajbakhsh’s Furlough Extended

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. ...

April 7, 2010

Mohammad Ghaznavian Re-Arrested After Bail Increased

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 ...

April 6, 2010

Special Court for Iranians Abroad: Established to Help or to Intimidate?

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 ...

April 6, 2010

Arash Saghar: Five Months in Security Ward 209 of Evin Prison

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 his ...

April 5, 2010

Iranian Human Rights Activists Under Attack; New Precedents Set

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 ...

April 4, 2010

Political Judges and Unfair Trials: The Widespread Infiltration of Intelligence Operations Into the Judicial System

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 ...

April 4, 2010

Illegal suspension rulings for Babol University students

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 ...

April 3, 2010

Jafar Panahi in Danger of Heart Attack, in Solitary Confinement

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 ...

April 2, 2010

275 Days in Prison–Issa Saharkhiz’s Poor Health after Hunger Strike

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 ...

April 1, 2010

Three Months After Mofidi’s Imprisonment: Tales of Rough Treatment in Prison

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 ...

April 1, 2010

Hessam Firouzi’s condition at Evin

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 ...

March 31, 2010

Kurdish Citizen Shot Dead by Police

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. ...

March 30, 2010

Women Prisoners: Maryam Zia Released, Eghdamdoust Gets New Case

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 ...

March 29, 2010

Concern about Moharebeh Charges against members of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters

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 ...

March 28, 2010

End illegal imprisonment and heavy bails for journalists

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 ...

March 27, 2010

Maryam Zia’s sister: My sister has been on a hunger strike

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 ...

March 26, 2010

900 Iranian Activists Sign Letter for Omid Montazeri’s Release

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 ...

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