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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 ...

Torture of Saeed Hajarian Threatening His Life

July 27, 2009

(27 July 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran appealed to authorities in Iran to halt the torture of Saeed Hajarian, a prominent reformist journalist and former presidential advisor who has been detained in Tehran’s Evin prison since ...

Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureates, Iranian Poets and Artists Support July 25th Global Day of Action

July 20, 2009

“We deplore the violence and crackdown on peaceful protesters, the increasing restrictions on civil liberties, and the imprisonment of a growing number of civil leaders in Iran. ” Archbishop Destmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate, 1984 “If one country sincerely wants ...

Iran Update: Prominent Human Rights Lawyer and Many Demonstrators Beaten and Detained as Rafsanjani Calls upon Security Forces to Follow Law, and for the Release of Prisoners

July 17, 2009

(17 July 2009) Government agents tear gassed peaceful demonstrators ,beat and kidnapped a leading human rights lawyer today, while Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president and leading cleric, called for the intelligence and security force to obey the ...

Death Toll Apparently Far Exceeds Government Claims

July 15, 2009

(15 July 2009) Information from Iranian hospitals and victims’ families indicates that the number of demonstrators killed by security officers and militia during demonstrations to protest Iran’s disputed 12 June presidential election far exceeds government reports, the International Campaign for ...

The Search of Parvin Fahimi — Sohrab Aarabi’s Mother

July 15, 2009

A report from 25 days of nonstop searching by the Peace Mother, Parvin “Ameneh Khatoon” Fahimi: -------------- Open Your Eyes Sohrab, Your Mother Is Staring At You How soon you grew up, ...

Video Clips and Pictures of Sohrab Aarabi’s Funeral

July 13, 2009

(13 July 2009) Sohrab Aarabi, the 19 year old protestor, who disappeared on 15 June during a demonstration in Tehran, was buried today at Behesht Zahra Cemetery in Tehran. Watch video clips and see pictures of the funeral. ...

After Withholding Information, Authorities say Youth Demonstrator Died of Gunshot Wounds

July 12, 2009

(12 July 2009) Iranian authorities have informed the family of Sohrab Aarabi, 19, that he died of gunshot wounds to his heart, 26 days after he disappeared during a demonstration on 15 June, the International Campaign for Human Rights in ...

Update: Kian Tajbakhsh, Prominent Intellectual, Arrested

July 10, 2009

(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 ...

Eyewitness Account from the Streets of Tehran

July 10, 2009

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 ...

Reporter’s Eyewitness Account

July 10, 2009

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 ...

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      August 26, 2025
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      August 21, 2025
    • Crushing Dissent Outside the Spotlight in Iran’s Provincial Cities
      August 12, 2025
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      August 11, 2025
    • Over 1,300 Activists Demand End to Iran’s Brutal Anti-Afghan Crackdown
      August 5, 2025
    • 14 Countries Condemn Iran’s Plots to 'Kill, Kidnap and Harass' Citizens Abroad
      August 1, 2025
    • Iran: Proposed Cyber Bill Gives Authorities Sweeping New Powers to Block and Punish Online Content
      July 29, 2025
    • UN Rights Chief Calls for Death Penalty Moratorium in Iran as Executions Skyrocket
      July 28, 2025
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      July 22, 2025
    • Iran: Political Death Sentences Surge in Brutal Crackdown on Minorities
      July 16, 2025
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      July 9, 2025
    • Firsthand Account from Evin Prisoners: Trapped Between Israel’s Unlawful Attacks and Iranian Authorities’ Shocking Abuses
      July 7, 2025
    • Op-Ed: Iran Is Terrorizing Its Own Citizens. The World Needs to Respond.
      July 4, 2025
    • Iran Launches Sweeping Crackdown: Hundreds Detained, Executions Underway
      June 26, 2025
    • Lives of Prisoners in Iran in Immediate Danger
      June 23, 2025
    • Political Prisoners on Death Row in Iran at Grave Risk Amid War
      June 19, 2025
    • Iranian Political Prisoner in Evin Prison Urges Action to Protect Prisoners As War Escalates
      June 18, 2025
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      June 16, 2025
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      June 12, 2025
    • UNICEF’s Silence on Iran: Nobel Laureate Demands Action on Children’s Rights Abuses
      June 11, 2025
    • Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested
      June 4, 2025
    • Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners
      May 27, 2025
    • Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences
      May 20, 2025
    • Crackdown on Justice: CHRI Reveals Systematic Persecution of Iran’s Human Rights Lawyers
      May 14, 2025
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      May 5, 2025
    • Iran’s Workers: Battered by Brutal Repression and Lethal Work Conditions
      April 30, 2025
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      April 24, 2025
    • Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency
      April 16, 2025
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