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Prominent Human Rights Defender Arrested on Eve of Demonstrations

November 3, 2009

(3 November 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported that Hasan Asadi Zaidabadi, a respected and influential human rights defender and member of the Central Council of the student alumni group ADVAR, was arrested at 20:30 today ...

Targeting of Women’s Rights Campaigners Seen as Effort to Silence Them

November 2, 2009

(2 November 2009) The Iranian Judiciary should end its harassment of women rights activists, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. At least 11 Iranian women’s rights activists, who are members of the One Million Signatures ...

Iranian-American Scholar Prevented From Filing an Appeal

October 29, 2009

(29 October 2009) Judiciary officials in charge of the case of Iranian-American sociologist Kian Tajbakhsh, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for allegedly trying to overthrow the Iranain government, are refusing to allow his lawyer to file ...

Release Iranian-Canadian Blogger after One Year of Arbitrary Detention

October 28, 2009

(28 October 2009) The Iranian Judiciary should release Hossein Derakhshan, a blogger who has been in detention without trial for the past year, as well as dozens of other political detainees held without trial, the International Campaign for Human Rights ...

Dringender Aufruf für internationalen Druck zur Beendigung der Welle von Hinrichtungen Jugendlicher

October 21, 2009

Diese Angelegenheit sollte in den Verhandlungen mit höchster Priorität behandelt werden; 130 jugendliche Straftäter im Todestrakt Von Links: Mohammad Reza Haddadi, ...

Iranian–American Sociologist Sentenced to 15 years

October 20, 2009

(20 October 2009) The Iranian Judiciary should rescind a 15-year prison sentence issued against Kian Tajbakhsh, a dual national Iranian-American sociologist, and order an immediate review of his case and those of others on trial or already sentenced in bogus ...

Urgent Call for International Pressure to Stop Wave of Child Executions

October 18, 2009

(19 October 2009) The international community should condemn in the strongest terms a wave of child executions underway in Iran, and raise the issue in current negotiations with Iran, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. United Nations ...

UN human rights chief criticizes latest execution of juvenile offender in Iran

October 13, 2009

In a press release, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, expressed concerns for the death sentences issued by the Iranian government. The text of the press release is as follow: GENEVA – The UN High Commissioner for ...

Three Sentenced to Death in Post-Election “Show Trials”

October 11, 2009

(11 October 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran condemned the sentencing to death of three men convicted for alleged activities in connection with political protests following the disputed 12 June presidential elections, and expressed its serious concerns ...

Mobile Human Rights Billboards Confront Ahmadinejad in New York

September 22, 2009

(22 September 2009) As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York to address the United Nations General Assembly, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is circulating mobile billboards protesting recent violence and extensive human rights violations in ...

Appoint Special UN Envoy to Investigate Rights Crisis

September 21, 2009

(21 September 2009) Member states of the United Nations should use President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s upcoming visit to the UN General Assembly to address Iran’s worsening human rights crisis, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Human Rights Watch ...

Campaign Report on Human Rights in Iran since 12 June 2009 – Accelerating Slide into Dictatorship

Campaign Report on Human Rights in Iran since 12 June 2009 – Accelerating Slide into Dictatorship

September 20, 2009

Human rights in Iran have deteriorated precipitously for over four years, since the onset of the administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But since the disputed presidential election on 12 June 2009, Iran’s slide into dictatorship has sharply accelerated. ...

Submission to the Human Rights Council for Iran’s Universal Periodic Review

Submission to the Human Rights Council for Iran’s Universal Periodic Review

September 14, 2009

This submission by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran provides information under sections C and D as stipulated in the General Guidelines for the Preparation of Information under the Universal Periodic Review: Section C briefly enumerates some of the ...

Human Rights Should be Issue Number One in Negotiations

September 12, 2009

(12 September 2009) The “P5+1” nations should put the need to respect human rights at the top of their list of issues to discuss with the Islamic Republic of Iran, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Iran’s ...

Authorities Close Groups Investigating Arrests, Detentions, and Killings, Arrest Leaders

September 9, 2009

(9 September 2009) The International Campaign for Human Right in Iran reported that three Iranian groups investigating arrests, detentions and killings in the context of post-election protests—two of which are associated with opposition political campaigns– were closed by order of ...

Information Withheld about Detainees Prevents Defense, Raises Fears

September 8, 2009

(8 September 2009) Iranian authorities have released little or no information about many of the approximately 400 persons who remain detained for expressing their objections to the contested 12 June presidential elections, violating international standards for due process and raising ...

Life of Mousavi’s Brother-in Law in Danger

August 18, 2009

(19 August 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expressed its serious concerns for the life of Shapour Kazemi, brother of Zahra Rahnevard and Mir Hossein Mousavi’s brother-in law. Kazemi, 62, is an engineer who was detained shortly ...

Child Executions: New Book Argues for Abolishing Child Executions Based on Islamic and International Law

August 18, 2009

(Cairo, 18 August 2009) The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), in collaboration with the International Campaign For Human Rights In Iran, has published an Arabic translation of “Child Executions, A Study of Roots and Proposed Intellectual And ...

Torture and Ill-Treatment Systematic, Not Result of “Negligence” and “Carelessness”

August 10, 2009

(10 August 2009) While Iranian authorities have claimed that abuse of detainees arrested for participating in peaceful demonstrations, or simply on the basis of their political beliefs, has been the result of “negligence” and “carelessness,” the International Campaign for Human ...

Tales of Torture, Violence Continue to be heard from Iran

July 31, 2009

(30 July 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran continues to verify reports from Iran chronicling systematic torture and brutal treatment. A Moussavi campaign staff in Mazandaran, Majid Sh., is one of the latest confirmed cases of torture ...

The Death of Amir Toufanpour

July 31, 2009

On 15 June 2009, Amir Hossein Toufanpour, born in 1978 and father of a 7-year-old daughter, was around Azadi square with his brother. Around 8:30 at night, noticing the noise and conflict in the street, he left his brother, ...

Neda’s Mother Holds Solitary Candle Vigil While Her Memorial Service is Violently Attacked

July 30, 2009

(30 July 2009) Thousands of people gathered to commemorate the fortieth day of Neda Agha Soltan’s killing and to mourn all other recent deaths at Behesht Zahra Cemetery today. The peaceful gathering was attacked violently by Special Guards and plain-clothes ...

Neda’s Mother Hajer Rostami Motlagh

July 30, 2009

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Family of Twenty-Five Year Old Killed During Protest Given Contradictory Information

July 29, 2009

(29 July 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has published a report of the shooting of 25-year-old electrical technician Davoud Sadri. He was shot during a protest in Azadi Square on 21 June by Basij forces and ...

Death of Davoud Sadri

July 28, 2009

Davoud Sadri, a 25-year-old electrical technician, was shot during public protests of presidential election results. He was killed in Azadi square at the beginning of the Jenah highway amidst shooting by Basij forces from their Meghdad base. His half-dead body, along ...

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