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Member of the One Million Signatures Campaign Arrested on Baseless Charges

April 27, 2009

(27 April 2009) Maryam Malek, a member of the One Million Signatures Campaign and a reporter on legal matters related to family courts, was arrested and transferred to Vozara Detention Center on 25 April 2009, after being summoned for interrogation ...

Student Activist Arrested

April 22, 2009

(21 April 2009) Masoud Dehgahn, a former member of the Students’ Union (Daftar e Tahkim vahdat) and Amir Kabir University Alumni, was arrested this morning in his home in Karaj, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

National Call to Action by The Defenders of Human Rights Center

April 21, 2009

The Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) has issued a national call to action titled: “Stop Child Executions” demanding the end to child and juvenile executions. This national call to action is the third of such nationally focused efforts spearheaded ...

Letter by Roxana Saberi’s Fiance, Bahman Ghobadi

April 21, 2009

(21 April 2009) Bahman Ghobadi, Iranian filmmaker, has written an open letter following the arrest and conviction of Roxana Saberi. The text of Bahman Ghobadi's letter is the following: "To Roxana Saberi, Iranian with an American passport" If I kept quiet until ...

Acquit and Release Roxana Saberi

April 19, 2009

UPDATE: (19 April 2009) Roxana Saberi was sentenced to 8 years in prison in Tehran on charges of espionage. (18 April 2009) The Iranian government should immediately rescind charges against Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi and release her from prison or prosecute ...

Death Sentences for Juvenile Offenders Continue

April 17, 2009

(17 April 2009) Twenty-two year old Delara Darabi is at imminent risk of execution for a crime she allegedly committed at age seventeen, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Her lawyer, Abdolsamad Khorramshahi, had previously not been ...

Persecution of Women’s Rights Campaigners Intensifies

April 16, 2009

(16 April 2009) A new report by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran documents that the persecution of women’s rights advocates has intensified in the past year. For the first time, a women’s rights advocate, Alieh Eghdamdoust, has been ...

Students Beaten and Prevented from Entering Noushirvan University in Babol

April 14, 2009

(14 April 2009) Twenty students at Noushirvan University in Babol were prevented from entering the campus, insulted, and beaten by the University Guards and plainclothes security officers who met them in front of the campus on 13 April 2009, the ...

International Organizations Call on Iran to End Persecution and Prosecution of Women’s Rights Activists

April 13, 2009

In a letter to President Ahmadinejad the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition, together with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, called on Iran to release Alieh Eghdamdoust and stop its increasing persecution and prosecution of women human ...

Arbitrary Detention of Trade Unionists Continues

April 9, 2009

(9 April 2009) The month-long detention and solitary confinement of Ali Nejati, President of the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Union, is without legal justification, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Nejati’s whereabouts were finally revealed after ...

UPDATE: Khadijeh Moghadam Released after Fourteen Days of Detention

April 8, 2009

(8 April 2009) Prominent women’s rights activist Khadijeh Moghadam, who has been in detention since 26 March 2009, was released from Tehran’s Evin Prison on bail at 8:15 pm, local time. Moghadam and eleven other members of Mothers for Peace and ...

Women’s Rights Activists Remain in Prison without Justification

April 6, 2009

(6 April 2009) Two women’s rights activists, imprisoned since 26 March 2009 after being arrested on the street as they embarked on making New Year visits, are being held without any legal justification and despite promises by judicial officials that ...

Students Held in Incommunicado Detention Are At Risk of Torture

April 4, 2009

(4 April 2009) The Iranian government should immediately and unconditionally release all detained students the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The students are being held in incommunicado detention in Tehran, Rejaee Shahr and Isfahan. The Campaign ...

Release Members of Al-Yasin Society

April 2, 2009

(1 April 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called on the Iranian Judiciary to immediately release five members of the Al-Yasin Society who have been detained without explanation or justification during the past few months. The detainees are ...

(UPDATE) Women’s Rights Activists Arbitrarily Detained, Preventing New Year Visits

March 26, 2009

(26 March 2009) Iranian authorities should immediately release a dozen women’s rights activists detained arbitrarily in Tehran today, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said. Security forces detained 12 members of the One Million Signatures Campaign and Mothers for ...

Young Blogger Dies in Prison

March 17, 2009

(19 March 2009) The death of an imprisoned blogger inside Evin Prison on 18 March, following the recent death of another prisoner of conscience, demonstrates that Iranian authorities are seriously neglecting the health of prisoners the International Campaign for Human ...

Trade Unionist Held in Unknown Location Should Be Released

March 17, 2009

(17 March 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran today called upon the Iranian Judiciary to immediately release Ali Nejati, a trade union leader, and end its persecution and prosecution of labor activists. Intelligence agents detained Nejati at his ...

University Campus Violently Attacked

February 25, 2009

(25 February 2009) Government forces violently attacked hundreds of protesting students at Amir Kabir University in Tehran and arrested dozens of students on 23 February 2009, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The Campaign expressed its serious ...

Petition for the Release of Alieh Eghdamdoust

February 23, 2009

Fill out the form below to send an appeal to Head of the Judiciary Ayatollah Shahroudi for the release of imprisoned women's rights activist Alieh Eghdamdoust (sample letter posted after jump): —————————————————————————————————– Your Excellency, I am writing to express my deep ...

Lives of Four Students on Hunger Strike Are at Risk

February 21, 2009

(21 February 2009) The lives of four Amirkabir University students, Majid Tavakoli, Hossein Torkashvand, Esmaiel Salmanpour and Kourosh Daneshyar, who went on hunger strike to protest their arbitrary detention, are at risk. The students should be released immediately and unconditionally, ...

Two Women Labor Activists Flogged; Their Crime: Celebrating May Day

February 20, 2009

(20 February 2009) Two Iranian women labor activists, convicted for participating in May Day celebrations, have been punished by flogging, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported today. According to local sources, on 18 February, Sussan Razani and Shiva ...

Baha’i Community in Peril

February 17, 2009

(17 February 2009) Attacks on the Baha’i community in Iran have reached alarming levels, including semi-official calls for its “utter destruction,” the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The Campaign called on the Iranian government to immediately ...

End Prosecution of Student for Exercising Freedom of Speech

February 14, 2009

(14 February 2009) The Iranian Judiciary should end its multiple prosecutions of Ali Nikounesbati solely for his writings and speeches, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Nikounesbati graduated from Mofid University in Qom two months ago. He ...

Two Followers of Ayatollah Boroujerdi Detained Incommunicado

February 12, 2009

(12 February 2009) Iranian authorities should immediately release Maryam Ghasemi and Zahra Abdollahvand, two followers of Ayatollah Boroujerdi who were arrested by order of the Special Court for Clergy in Tehran on 28 January 2009, the International Campaign for Human ...

Four Journalists Sentenced to Prison, Floggings

February 10, 2009

(10 February 2009) The sentencing of four Tehran bloggers by Iran’s Judiciary Court on February 3, 2009, to prison terms, fines and flogging, despite the head of the judiciary’s admission that they had been coerced into confessing, violates their right ...

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