In statements which have caused grave concern amongst the Iranian human rights and social activists, Iranian Minister of Science, Research, and Technology, Kamran Daneshjoo, has said that only those can teach or study at universities who have proven commitment to Islam and velayat-e faghih. Therefore ...

A student source told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Mashad Azad University student and human rights activist Reza Lotfi was violently abducted from his home by plainclothes forces last night. During the late hours of last night, several plainclothes forces stormed ...

While over the past few days several sources have published news of Mohammad Valian’s death sentence as the first case of its kind upheld by an appeals court, Valian family refrain from confirming the news. One of his Mohammad Valian’s classmates told International Campaign ...

With the widespread flight of many Iranian journalists and political and social activists who are now in neighboring countries, seeking asylum from third countries over the past few months, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has tried to demonstrate the issues and ...

After the Iranian Presidential elections of 12 June 2009 which was accompanied by widespread political arrests, the visitation pattern of political prisoners’ families changed drastically from previous years. The number of political prisoners increased and therefore the number of families who were in search of ...

Distinguished Iranian attorney Abdolsamad Khorramshahi is one of 36 attorneys who were recently disqualified by the Judges Court for membership in the Board of Directors of the Iranian Bar Association. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, he expressed concern ...

A source close to Jafar Panahi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: “Over the past years, Ministry of Information authorities have summoned Jafar Panahi to different investigation offices of the Ministry in different locations and have questioned him. In one of these ...

Student activist and member of the central council of Advar Alumni Association (Tahkim-e Vahdat) Bahareh Hedayat’s husband has described his wife’s condition for the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

A source close to Morteza Semyari told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that after the Revolutionary Courts announced Semyari's bail at $800,000, his family tried to talk to court authorities before a public announcement of their decision was made, hoping to see the ...

In a response to a request by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran for solidarity in demanding human rights in Iran to the Prime Minister of Spain, the Director of the Cabinet Mr. Jose Enrique Serrano Martinez wrote: Cabinet Director of The Presidency (Spain) I ...

Only a few days after being re-arrested, it was announced that Hengameh Shahidi’s six-year prison sentence has been upheld in an appeals court and she must prepare for serving her sentence. Sources close to Shahidi’s case told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran ...

A source close to the case of student activist Eftekhar Barzegarian told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that six months after this student’s arrest, he remains in Vakil Abad Prison’s dangerous criminals ward. Eftekhar Barzegarian is a Mashad Ferdowsi University student who ...

Following the very heavy prison sentences and bail orders as high as $500,000 for political and student activists, Ali Kantoori, a student political activist was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment. His sentence was issued by Branch 104 of Sanandaj General Courts. A student activist close ...

Student activists have informed International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that an appeals court has upheld the prison sentences for eight Babol Norshirvani University student activists. According to the court document, Mohsen Barzegar, Iman Sadighi, and Nima Nahvi have received sentences of 10 months ...

Vahid Poorostad, journalist, author, and lawyer who was arrested on February 9th, as so many other journalists and political activists who were arrested before the February 11th ceremonies, might soon be released with the stipulation of bail. A source who is in contact with Poorostad’s ...

New York court has pressed charges against a man accompanying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his September 2009 trip to United Nation’s General Assembly in New York for assault in the second degree for attacking and injuring a young woman outside Ahmadinejad’s hotel. The suspect must ...

Jahanbakhsh Khanjani, former advisor to Iran’s Minister of Interior, was released on Wednesday night after spending more than eight months in prison, while according to one of the previously released prisoners, he was under pressure to confess and was constantly moved from general confinement to ...

Hengameh Shahidi, a journalist who served four months in prison this summer and was released on bail on November 1, 2009, has been arrested and transferred to Evin again. Shahidi was active in Mehdi Karroubi’s presidential elections campaign. ...

A student activist at Mashad Ferdowsi University told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that despite a petition signed by three thousand students at Mashad Ferdowsi University, requesting a reversal of the decision to deprive three students from education, the decision has been finalized. ...

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In an interview with International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a Mashad political activist has said that student activist Amir Sheibani has been arrested for the fourth time. Following the elections protests, Sheibani was arrested several times, once running away from the Ansar ...

A source close to Saeed Nour Mohammadi, a youth campaigner for Mir Hossein Mousavi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that authorities in charge of Nour Mohammadi's case refuse to let his case move forward. Nour Mohammadi was first arrested ...

In a shocking statement,  a cleric named Seyed Hamid Rohani told  the radical pro-government newspaper, Vatan-e Emrooz, that dissidents should be executed en mass. Rohani is introduced in the ...

The judge in the case of student leader Abdollah Momeni, who was arrested after the Iranian elections and has been in prison for more than eight months now, has issued an $800,000 bail order for his freedom. Bail is a cautionary measure which must maintain ...