After the 1979 Revolution, Iranian authorities renewed a historic campaign to eradicate members of the Baha;i community. Since then, over 200 Iranian Baha’i ’s have been executed, disappeared, or killed for their beliefs. Thousands more have been imprisoned and have ...
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran presents his findings on human rights abuses at the UN General Assembly; Campaign spokesperson Hadi Ghaemi urges other UN member states to support Shaheed’s ...
“I can’t speak definitively about the other prisoners at Evin because I wasn’t allowed to mix with them,” responded Shourd when asked whether she had any interaction with other prisoners while she was in Evin prison adding that, “but I’ve ...
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: The Campaign speaks out about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to the UN General Assembly in New York; American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal are released from prison; seven documentary filmmakers are arrested ...
(19 September 2011) As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York, four New Yorkers who closely follow developments in Iran talk about why the Iranian people expect the media and UN dignitaries to focus primarily on holding Ahmadinejad accountable for Iran’s ...
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: protesters clash with security forces in the Azerbaijan region of Iran; jailed student activist Ashkan Zahabian embarks on a hunger strike to protest his conditions in prison; four literary and cultural figures are released ...
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: 100 political prisoners pardoned by Ayatollah Khamenei on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr; the Campaign, along with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi, speak out against the Iranian Central Bar Association for failing to ...
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: the final verdict on the three imprisoned American hikers, Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal has not been announced; National Press Club president Mark Hamrick condemns journalist Kouhyar Goudarzi’s disappearance and his mother’s ...
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: the court reviewing the case of the three Americans arrested more than two years ago has not yet issued its ruling; UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran requests entry ...
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: the final trial session for the three American hikers, Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, and Sara Shourd has taken place; the Campaign published a report entitled, Raising Their Voices: Iranian Civil Society Reactions to the ...
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: seven political prisoners from Evin Prison’s Ward 350 were allowed a short furlough to observe a religious holiday; the sister of Fatemeh Rahnama spoke with the Campaign about Rahnama’s conditions in prison; judiciary officials ...
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: more than 50 officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran have been put on visa restriction lists by the US and UK; the son of political prisoner Heshmatollah Tabarzadi tells the Campaign of concern ...
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In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: Rudi Bakhtiar of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran testifies at the United States Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing; the mothers of imprisoned American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal speak out; the ...
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Human rights lawyer and Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi discusses the challenges facing workers in Iran (video). ...
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: lawyer Mohammad Seifzadeh is taken back to prison; Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi speaks out against the treatment of Arab minorities in the Khuzestan province of Iran; informed sources told the Campaign of political prisoners ...
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: the Pen American Center honors Nasrin Sotoudeh with their Freedom to Write award for her human rights work; Camp Ashraf in Iraq, home to roughly 3500 members of the People’s Mujahideen, came under attack ...
This is the “Weekly Rights Podcast.” A review of major human rights issues by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. It’s February 23rd and this is our 23rd weekly podcast: The government of Iran has once again denied ...
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: the Campaign calls on the Iranian government to grant a permit for rallies in support of protestors in Egypt and Tunisia; the trial for three American hikers began and their lawyer Massoud Shafiee tells ...
On January 29th, Iran executed a Dutch-Iranian prisoner Zahra Bahrami. Bahrami was arrested during last year’s demonstrations and originally charged with security-related violations for sending pictures and videos of the demonstrations abroad. But later into her detention, prosecutors introduced new ...
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: Nasrin Sotoudeh is charged with not wearing a hejad for not wearing a headscarf in a 2008 YouTube video and Mohammad Javad Larijani comments on her charges; Christian pastors Youcef Nadarkhani and Behrouz Sadegh-Khanjani ...
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: Shahla Jahed was executed after spending eight years in Evin prison on charges of stabbing the wife of soccer star Nasser Mohammadkhani; Ebrahim Yazdi, an eighty year old activist, is still in prison as ...