A source close to Mahsa Jazini told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Jazini is in detention at the Dastgerd Prison of Isfahan for the past 15 days. Mahsa Jazini,a women’s rights activist and a journalist with Iran Newspaper in Isfahan, ...

A prominent non-governmental organization dedicated to defense of Iranian political prisoners, Center of Defenders of Human Rights in Iran, whose members are some of the most distinguished attorneys in the country, has sent a letter to United Nation’s High Commission on Human Rights, asking her ...

BBC Persian television station aired a video clip today which was taped by the attackers of Tehran University dormitories on June 15, 2009 during the post-elections protests. The video which has been recorded by attackers themselves clearly demonstrates that police and plainclothes forces made ...

The Iranian Judiciary's First Deputy said on Sunday that the trial court of those responsible for Kahrizak Detention Center events will be held as early as late March. Seyed Ebrahim Raeesi refrained again to provide clear information about the trial date, even though the ...

A student activist and eye witness has provided details to International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about the paramilitary forces’ attack on Mashad Azad Univesity students on December 30, 2009. He talks about arrests and sentences which have followed the incident. He says the ...

Alireza Avaee has stated that so far the judge related to Kahrizak case has not been suspended. In an interview with ISNA News Agency, when asked about the suspension of judges associated with the Kahrizak case, the Ministry of Justice's Chief Officer said ...

An informed source who is a student activist told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that over the past few days, student activist Bahareh Hedayat has been informed of 16 separate charges against her. The Tehran Prosecutor Jafari Dowlatabadi has described Bahareh Hedayat’s ...

Channel 4 News- “A former member of the Iranian basij militia tells Channel 4 News that he was jailed and mistreated for refusing to assault opposition protesters. “There was a table. I stood on that table for some hours with my hands tied and a ...

In a letter to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a journalist from Kermanshah has pointed to instances of violations of human rights in the Province, requesting better news coverage of the arrests of political activists, journalists, and students. The Campaign would ...

Morteza Semyari, Central Council member of the Office to Foster Unity (Daftar-e Tahkim Vahdat), continues to remain imprisoned in solitary confinement in Ward 240 of Evin prison. One of the student activists of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said, “While the ...

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Following the February 11th arrest of Ali Karroubi, 37, the objecting presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi’s son, and his subsequent torture inside the Amir-al-Momenin Mosque in Tehran by plainclothes Basijis, the subject of abuse and mistreatment of detainees has once again come to light. After the ...

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Moments after Head of Iranian Human Rights Delegation, Mohammad Javad Larijani, finished delivering his statements, Dr. Abdolkarim Lahiji, vice president of the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues, told the Campaign that he is stunned by Larijani’s words. ...

International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: On Monday, February 15th, between 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM Tehran time, the three-hour review of human rights conditions in Iran in the UN’s UPR (Universal period Review)will be directly broadcast via Internet. In this meeting, representatives of ...

International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: On Monday, February 15th, between 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM Tehran time, the three-hour meeting of the review of conditions of human rights in Iran in the periodical UPR will be directly broadcast via Internet. ...

Continuing with our series of reports and interviews with Iranian asylum seekers who have left Iran after the June 12 presidential elections, an Iranian journalist who is awaiting UN’s decision for going to a third country, has sent a report to the International Campaign for ...

According to reports received by International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, pressure on Shiraz University students has mounted considerably over the recent days, resulting in summons, arrests, and expulsions. Shiraz University has been experiencing an atmosphere of fear and a security state. ...

A Journalist in Tehran describes the mood in the city for the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran’s blog, just a day before the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution’s victory in 1979. Below you see excerpts from this interview: ICHR- 24 hours before the anniversary ...

Only 24 hours before the February 11, 2010 celebration of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, a student activist and member of Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that over the past few days, fear has enveloped Tehran streets. He said ...

Replying to a question from International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about the case of Kian Tajbakhs, a post elections prisoner whose case is in an appeals court, Kian Tajbakhsh’s attorney said: “Regarding the appeals request I filed with the Revolutionary Courts after ...

An appeals court has reduced Iranian American researcher Kian Tajbakhsh’s sentence to five years. Behzad Nabavi’s sentence has also been reduced to five years. Earlier there was news about the six year prison sentence of Mohsen Safaee Farahani, 61. General and Revolutionary ...

A source close to political prisoner Saeed Nourmohammadi told the International Campaign for Human Rights that despite immense physical and psychological pressure on Nourmohammadi over the past few months, his family have been asked to raise bail for his release and he may be released ...