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March 5, 2010

Valian’s Family under Pressure to Deny News of his Execution Sentence

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 ...

March 4, 2010

What Are The Refugees’ Expectations in Turkey? Eyewitness Report

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 ...

March 4, 2010

Evin Prison: Visiting political prisoners

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 ...

March 4, 2010

Disqualification of Lawyers and the Iranian Bar Association’s Demise: An Interview with Abdolsamad Khorramshahi

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 ...

March 3, 2010

Arrest of Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and New Pressure on Independent Filmmakers

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 ...

March 3, 2010

Protestor in Danger of Execution as Iran Flouts Human Rights Standards

(4 March 2010) An Iranian protestor, prosecuted in a post-Ashura trials on charges of Moharebeh, or “enmity against God, is in danger of imminent execution, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The identity of the protestor sentenced to death is not yet ...

March 3, 2010

After 2 Months in Prison, “No Suspect by the Name of Bahareh Hedayat Exists!”

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. ...

March 2, 2010

Morteza Semyari’s Family Say They Will Never be Able to Raise his $600,000 Bail

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 ...

March 1, 2010

Prime Minister of Spain Urges Respect for Human Rights in Iran

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 ...

March 1, 2010

Six-Year Prison Sentences for Omid Montazeri and Hengameh Shahidi

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 ...

March 1, 2010

Student Activist Eftekhar Barzegarian Being Held in Hardened Criminals’ Ward

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 ...

March 1, 2010

Heavy Sentences For Students on the Way: 15 Years for Ali Kantoori

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 ...

February 28, 2010

Pressure on Northern Iran Students Continues: 8 Prison Sentences Upheld

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 ...

February 27, 2010

Vahid Poorostad: Possibility of Release?

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 ...

February 27, 2010

Member of Ahmadinejad Entourage in New York is Suspect in Attack on a Young Woman

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 ...

February 26, 2010

After 8 Months in Prison and Pressure for Forced Confessions, Jahanbakhsh Khanjani Was Released

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 ...

February 26, 2010

Journalist Hengameh Shahidi Arrested

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. ...

February 26, 2010

Three Mashad University Students Banned from Education

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. ...

February 25, 2010

Culture of Human Rights (A video clip)

Culture of Human Rights by 12Petals Media Group Producer: Majid Baradar Art Direction/Art Production: Ardalan Payvar & Shadi Yousefian ...

February 25, 2010

Mashad Student Activist Amir Sheibani Imprisoned for the Fourth Time since the Elections

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 ...

February 25, 2010

Saeed Nour Mohammadi’s Ambiguous Case After 5 Months in prison

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 ...

February 24, 2010

Pro-Government Cleric Hamid Rohani: In Order to Solve the Problem, Kill the Dissidents as in 1988

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 ...

February 24, 2010

Heavy Bail Amounts Are Not in Accordance With Law: Abdollah Momeni’s Bail at $800,000

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 ...

February 24, 2010

Possibility of Mahsa Jazini’s Release on Bail– Charges: “Being a Feminist.”

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, ...

February 23, 2010

Defenders of Human Rights Center Warns the UN High Commissioner: Prevent Total Destruction of Iranian Civil Society

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 ...

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