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February 13, 2010

Asylum in Turkey: Futile Hopes and Dreams?

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 ...

February 12, 2010

Continuation of arrests, pressure, and expulsions at Shiraz University

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. ...

February 10, 2010

A Journalist in Tehran told the Campaign, “Crackdown on People Will be Another Mistake”

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 ...

February 10, 2010

Student Activist: People concerned about blatant regime brutality

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 ...

February 10, 2010

Kian Tajbakhsh’s 15 year sentence will be overturned

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 ...

February 10, 2010

New prison sentences: Tajbakhsh five years, Safaei Farahani six years, and Nabavi five years

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 ...

February 10, 2010

Possibility of Saeed Nourmohammdi’s release from prison; no news about his brother after arrest

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 ...

February 9, 2010

Arrest of Journalist Vahid Pourostad

Vahid Pourostad, an experienced Iranian journalist, was arrested at his home on Monday night on a warrant issued by the Tehran Prosecutor’s Office. Only two days before the 11 February anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, the widespread arrests of social activists and journalists now includes ...

February 9, 2010

Soltani: “Throwing stones or breaking windows is not ‘moharebeh'”

Iranian lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani discusses the proper application of moharebeh laws. ...

February 9, 2010

Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey(5): “The refugees are not journalists only”!

In the series of interviews conducted by International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran with asylum seekers in countries neighboring Iran, this time we have talked to a journalist who left Iran due to difficult professional working conditions and for being in danger for his ...

February 8, 2010

Mass arrests of journalist: Akbar Montajabi, Ehsan Mehrabi, Jalali Farahani, Ali Kalaee, and Somayeh Momeni in Prison

Akbar Montajabi a prominent journalist with reformist newspapers and magazines who works for the Irandokht publication was arrested by the security agents at two o’clock on Sunday morning. Montajabi previously worked for such publications as Yas-e-No, Shargh, and Etemaad Meli and also for weekly ...

February 8, 2010

Shirin Ebadi: Politics Rule the Iranian Judiciary

The 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, was interviewed by the Campaign regarding Iran’s Judiciary. ...

February 8, 2010

Widespread arrests of activists on the threshold of the 1979 revolution anniversary

Mass arrests of social, women’s rights, and political activists during the ten days leading to Islamic Revolution’s Anniversary has continued with arrests of Maryam Ghanbari, a member of the Maydan women’s group, and Mah-Farid Mansourian, an environmental activist. Most arrests were made during midnight ...

February 7, 2010

Using Photographs of Protests Outside Iran to Intimidate Arriving Passengers at the Airport

Authorities at Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran have been collecting photographs of Iranians in protest gatherings outside the country. These Iranians have participated in gatherings to show solidarity with Iranians inside Iran for condemning violations of human rights in Iran. When leaving ...

February 7, 2010

Six months’ imprisonment for student activist Ashkan Zahabian

Following the court sentences of student activists in Northern Iran universities and the heavy sentence of Seyed Zia Nabavi, student activist Ashkan Zahabian’s sentence was issued. Iran’s Ministry of Information is the plaintiff in Ashkan Zahabian’s case, and Babol Revolutionary Courts have found him ...

February 6, 2010

Arrest of Nooshin Jafari and search for Saeedeh Kordi Nejad

On Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at midnight, Nooshin Jafari, a journalist with Etemad Newspaper's Culture Section was arrested. Security forces entered and searched her home, took her personal items and computer, arrested her, and transferred her to an unknown location. Several journalists and ...

February 5, 2010

Mourning Mothers: “Stop the executions.”

Mourning Mothers, a group of wives and mothers who have lost their spouses or children during the post-elections protests or whose spouses or children are currently in prison, have issued a statement, objecting to executions of political protesters and execution sentences for several political prisoners, ...

February 5, 2010

Missing Kurdish Students

In the aftermath of the student protest rally in front of the School of Law and Political Sciences in Tehran University on November 16, 2009, seven students were arrested by security agents outside the university, and their whereabouts and charges against them are unknown. ...

February 5, 2010

A Ferdowsi University student is moved into criminal ward

The Ferdowsi University of Mashhad’s student Eftekhar Barzegarian was transferred to Mashhad’s Vakilabad Prison in the ward of hardened criminals and repeat offenders. Eftekhar Barzegarian, the deprived-of-education student from Ferdowsi University in Mashhad, and student campaigner for Mehdi Karroubi in the Province of Mashhad, ...

February 4, 2010

Moharebeh and Corruption on Earth charges for student activist Amin Valian

Mohammad Amin Valian, a 20-year-old member of the Central Council of Islamic Association of Damghan Science University, was convicted on charges of heretics (moharebeh) and corruption on earth in a show trial. Amir Kabir Bulletin reports that during the Wednesday trial presided by Judge ...

February 4, 2010

Shiva Nazarahari’s Mother: “Release My Daughter, She is Innocent!”

Shahrzad Kariman, mother of imprisoned human rights activist Shiva Nazarahari who was arrested on 20 December 2009, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that her daughter’s activities with the Committee of Human Rights Reporters was completely legal and charges such as “association ...

February 4, 2010

Arrests of online publication members Ardavan Torakemeh, Maziar Samiee, Yashar Darolshafa

Several individuals have been arrested in relation to Omid Montazeri’s arrest and his show trial on Iranian state television. Yashar Darolshafa, Maziar Samiee, and Bahar Torakemeh were arrested on Wednesday night. Maziar Samiee had been arrested earlier. ...

February 4, 2010

Three Americans to call home and have meetings with attorney

Massoud Shafiee, attorney of three Americans who crossed the Iranian border by accident and were arrested six months ago told the International Campaign for Human Rights that during a meeting he had with authorities in charge of the three Americans’ case, he was promised a ...

February 3, 2010

Ahmadinejad Reveals That Three Americans Are Hostages in Iran

Six months after the arrest of three Americans, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced in a television interview that Iran may be prepared to swap the three Americans with Iranians whom he says have been arrested by Americans in other countries. In an interview with Iranian state television, ...

February 3, 2010

New arrests: Sahar Ghassem Nejad, Nazanin Hassan Nia, and Alireza Saghafi

At 4 a.m. today, plainclothes officers stormed the homes of Sahar Ghassem Nejad and Nazanin Hassan Nia, who belong to families of those executed in the 1980's, arresting both women. After searching the premises, the officers who had warrants from the Prosecutor's office took ...

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