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April 23, 2010

Two Student Activists Start Their Prison Terms in Babol

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, ...

April 22, 2010

Interview With Saba Vasefi: There Are No Legal Grounds for My Dismissal

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 ...

April 21, 2010

Student Activist Kaveh Rezaei Shirazi Called to Serve Prison Sentence

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 ...

April 21, 2010

Eftekhar Barzegarian Released After 8 Months in Prison

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 ...

April 21, 2010

Seven Members of the Defenders of Human Rights Center Banned From Traveling Abroad

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 ...

April 21, 2010

Farideh Gheirat: Even Baghi’s Lawyer Can’t Access His File

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 ...

April 21, 2010

Evin Political Prisoners: “Judges Act As Representatives of Security Organizations”

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 ...

April 18, 2010

Mohammad Mostafaee: Judge Moghiseh Has Violated Many Suspects’ Rights

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 ...

April 16, 2010

Fighting Censorship: US Senate Testimony on Internet Freedom

Iranian journalist Omid Memarian testifying before Congress regarding internet freedom in Iran on 2 March 2010 ...

April 14, 2010

Ali Sepandar and Behzad Parvin, Two Imprisoned Birjand University Students Released

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 ...

April 14, 2010

Mashad Student Activist Mohammad Reza Lotfi Yazdi Released

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 ...

April 14, 2010

Illegal Arrest, Prison Abuse, And Unfair Trial– Latest News on Heshmatollah Tabarzadi from His Lawyer

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. ...

April 14, 2010

Three More Faculty Members Dismissed for Their Political Orientation

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 ...

April 14, 2010

Anonymous Prisoners and the Charge of Relations with MKO

During the post-elections arrests of 2009, tens of those arrested were citizens who did not belong to any groups or political parties, or whose names were never mentioned in a social and political context. These prisoners remain in detention anonymously and their families’ efforts ...

April 13, 2010

Imprisoned Babol student’s short furlough

On Sunday morning, Babol Prosecutor’s Office agreed to a short furlough for Mohammad Esmaeelzadeh. Student sources told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that following repeated requests by Mohammad Esmaeelzadeh for a furlough leave to visit and spend time with his wife and ...

April 13, 2010

Student Activist Contracts Infectious Diseases at Mashad Prison

Eftekhar Barzegarian, a student activist at Mashad Ferdowsi University who has been in prison since September 2009 is suffering from a grave illness. Student sources told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he is currently suffering from multiple illnesses and is repeatedly ...

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. ...

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