(10 July 2009) Agents of the Security Police arrested Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh at his home in Tehran on the evening of 9 July, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The agents did not provide any legal ...

Today, on the streets of Tehran, at 4 pm sharp, people started to congregate along routes that had been previously announced. Their eyes communicated with each other, expressions of familiarity, sympathy, and solidarity that today we shall make history together, yet ...

Demonstrations commemorating the tenth anniversary of attacks on Tehran University campus were violently disrupted by security and police forces as well as Basij militia and plain clothes agents who attacked and beat the demonstrators. On Thursday evening, thousands of people, many ...

(10 July 2009) Thousands of demonstrators commemorated the tenth anniversary of the student-led protests of 9 July 1999 in Tehran yesterday, despite a harsh crackdown by government forces. Dozens of protestors were detained. Security forces and government-controlled Basij militia and plain ...

Prominent human rights lawyer among new detainees Arrests by unidentified agents, detentions in undisclosed locations (8 July 2009) While Iranian authorities have issued statements about the release of some of the approximately 2,000 citizens that local human rights monitors believe are detained, ...

(6 July 2009) With as many as two thousand individuals, including more than two-hundred prominent personalities, under incommunicado detention in Iran, serious concerns for their health and safety are growing. There are increasing reports of extensive use of solitary confinement ...

An Interview with the sister of one of those who were killed on June 2oth: Ashkaan said, “I’ll go and come back.” June 30th, 2009 www.roozonline.com (Parastoo Sepehri): Ashkaan Sohrabi was an 18-year-old who was shot and killed on ...

A detainee, arrested by Iranian forces in the recent protests, relates: "They inspected us in filthy, unsanitary situations." Susan Mohammadkhani Ghiasvand The results announced from the tenth presidential election created a wave of protests across the country. These protests, carried out peacefully, faced ...

These interviews and accounts are being provided for information purposes, given the lack of media and information coming out of Iran. Their use is permitted as long as credit is given ...

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran recently reported that Yaghoub Barvayeh is one of those shot dead by government forces in Tehran. Yaghoub was shot ...

A detailed eyewitness account from Tehran regarding the protests of 20 June and the extreme violence visited upon protesters ...

POLITICAL PERSONALITIES Abbas Pourazhari, in Tabriz Abdolah Momeni, member of the central council of the Advar organization and its spokesperson, was arrested on 21 June Abdolfatah Soltani, a human rights lawyer and one ...

(19 June 2009) The Iranian government is bound by Iranian and international law to protect the right to peaceful assembly, despite threats against citizens seeking to express their views on the disputed presidential elections, the International Campaign for Human Rights ...

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19 June 2009 UN human rights chief concerned about manner of arrests, and possible use of excessive force in Iran GENEVA – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said Friday she is concerned about reports of an increasing number ...

(17 June 2009) Ebrahim Yazdi, General Secretary of Nehzat e Azadi, was arrested today at 15:00 Tehran time, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said, while he was in Pars Hospital in Tehran in the Intensive Care Unit. ...