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 ...

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 ...

One month after the arrest of Alireza Falahati, there is no news of his whereabouts. Falahati was a campaign head for the Islamic Iran Participation Front in Babol and a member of the party’s Mazandaran Province youth branch. A source close to Falahati’s family said ...

In the continuation of pressure on students and political activists in the province of Mazandaran, Ali Akbar Soroush, a member of the Mazandaran Participation Front Central Council, and two other students of Babol Noshirvani Industrial University, Mohammad Reza Massoumian and Mohammad Maleki, were arrested. ...

Members of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) are virtually certain not to vote on a resolution dealing with the human rights crisis in Iran in the March Session of the Council, based on numerous meetings between diplomats and the International Campaign for Human ...

While the release of some political prisoners is underway before celebrations of Persian New Year (Nowruz) begin, Iranian Judiciary authorities continue to issue heavy bails for political activists. In the last round of heavy bail orders, Iranian scholar Kian Tajbakhsh, who was arrested eight months ...

Mohammad Esmaeelzadeh, a blogger from Mazandaran, was transferred to the General Ward of Babol Prison. He is serving a 91 day prison sentence for insulting the Supreme Leader. A source close to Esmaeelzadeh told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his request ...

Four Birjand University student activists, Ali Sepandar, Behzad Parvin, Amin Ostadi, and Milad Garajian were arrested again last week for the second time since the Iranian elections. The students are members of the Central and General Councils of Islamic Association of Birjand University. They have ...

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In an interview with International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, women’s rights activist, researcher, and documentary filmmaker Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, analyzes the condition of the Iranian women’s movement and civil society activists in Iran after the 12 June 2009 elections. Abbasgholizadeh who formerly headed the ...

The location and reasons for the arrest of Mashad Azad University student activist, Mohammad Reza Lotfi Yazdi, who was arrested by security forces at his father’s home more than 10 days ago, are still unknown. A close relative of Lotfi who is familiar with ...