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Students Deserve Right to Education not Detention

November 26, 2008

(26 November 2008) The health and safety of four students detained after staging a sit-in protest against their suspension from Alameh Tabataba’i University are at risk, according to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Mahdieh Golroo, Sadiq Shojai, Saeed ...

UPDATE: Kamangar Not Executed; 10 Others Hanged

November 26, 2008

(26 November 2008) Farzad Kamangar, an Iranian Kurdish teacher sentenced to death, was not executed today as it was feared. He was taken from his cell yesterday and reports from Evin prison indicated his sentence might be implemented today. However, ...

Open Letter to the Head of the Judiciary: Release Kaboudvand

November 25, 2008

(25 November 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran urged the head of the Judiciary to annul a 10 year prison sentence for prominent human rights defender Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand. ...

ALERT: Teacher to be Executed

November 25, 2008

(25 November 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has been informed that Farzad Kamangar, an Iranian Kurdish teacher and social worker unfairly sentenced to death, will be hanged early on 26 November 2008. According to several reliable ...

13 Organizations Express Concern for Women’s Rights Activists

November 5, 2008

We, the undersigned international women’s and human rights organizations, submit this letter to express our deep concern regarding the increasing harassment of women human rights defenders in Iran. ...

Iran Hangs Seventh Juvenile Offender This Year

November 4, 2008

(4 November 2008) Iran hanged a juvenile offender on 30 October 2008, the seventh this year, only two days after Iranian authorities “categorically denied” that it still executes juveniles, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Human Rights ...

Followers of Ayatollah Boroujerdi Again Incarcerated

November 3, 2008

(3 November 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expressed serious concern today for the imprisoned followers of Ayatollah Kazemini Boroujerdi, and for the health of the imprisoned cleric himself. Hundreds of Boroujerdi’s followers were arrested for attempting ...

Prominent Human Rights Defender Sentenced to 10-years in Prison

October 28, 2008

His Only “Crime”: Reporting Human Rights Violations (28 October 2008) The Iranian Judiciary should immediately repeal an 10-year prison sentence for Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand, a well-known human rights defender, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Kaboudvand, the founder ...

Renewed Attempts to Isolate and Silence Women’s Rights Activists

October 27, 2008

(27 October 2008) The Iranian government has substantially increased its persecution and prosecution of women’s rights activists in recent days. These actions come on the heels of a report by the UN Secretary General calling on Iran to end its ...

Women’s Rights Activist and Researcher Detained

October 21, 2008

(21 October 2008) Iranian intelligence agents detained Esha Momeni, an activist in the One Million Signature Campaign and a graduate student doing research for her thesis on the Iranian women’s movement, on 15 October 2008. The International Campaign for Human ...

Iran and Malaysia Join Forces to Silence Nobel Laureate

October 20, 2008

(20 October 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran together with the Asian NGOs Network on National Human Rights Institutions (ANNI) strongly condemn the acts of Iranian and Malaysian governments preventing Dr. Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace ...

Directive to Abolish Juvenile Death Penalty Issued

October 17, 2008

(17 October 2008) A high-ranking Iranian Judiciary official announced the issuance of a directive to judges that execution sentences for juvenile offenders must be replaced by life imprisonment sentences with the possibility of parole. The International Campaign for Human Rights in ...

Imprisoned Journalist on Hunger Strike

October 16, 2008

(16 October 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expressed serious concern today for the health and safety of imprisoned journalist Mohammad Hasan Falahiezadeh. He has been on hunger strike since 5 October to protest the failure to ...

Ahmadinejad Misrepresents Iranian Law on Juvenile Executions

September 27, 2008

(27 September 2008) President Ahmadinejad falsely claimed that Iranian law does not allow for the execution of juvenile offenders in an interview with the New York Times, published on 26 September 2008. As the International Campaign for Human Rights in ...

UN: Hold Ahmadinejad Accountable for Iran Rights Crisis

September 18, 2008

(New York, 18 September 2008) – Under the administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, basic human rights protection in Iran has deteriorated to new lows, Human Rights Watch and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said in a briefing ...

19 Azerbaijanis Arbitrarily Arrested

September 17, 2008

(17 September 2008) Intelligence Ministry agents arrested 19 prominent members of the Azerbaijani minority at a private Ramadan celebration on the evening of 10 September 2008, and detained them in Evin Prison where nine are still being held without ...

Release Imprisoned Ayatollah for Urgent Medical Care

September 5, 2008

(5 September 2008) Iranian authorities should immediately release Ayatollah Kazemini Boroujerdi to receive urgently needed medical care, theInternational Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. According to Ayatollah Boroujerdi’s physician, his condition has considerably deteriorated in prison and ...

National Peace Council–A Broad Coalition Opposing Military Confrontation

September 4, 2008

(4 September 2008) A group of leading civil society activists, intellectuals, lawyers, artists, and others in Iran have joined the National Peace Council to oppose military conflict over the nuclear crisis and to promote and protect human rights there. “The establishment ...

Threats Against Nobel Peace Laureate Escalate

August 26, 2008

(26 August 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expressed serious concerns for the health and safety of Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate, following increasing threats and slander by the official government organ, Islamic ...

Iran Earns Medal of Shame for Juvenile Executions

August 26, 2008

(26 August 2008) Iranian authorities hung juvenile offender Behnam Zare today, who was convicted of killing an associate at age 15. A week earlier, on 19 August, Reza Hejazi, also 15 at the time of his crime, was executed. Iran ...

Political Activist Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison

August 7, 2008

(7 August 2008) Abbas Khorsandi, a political activist, has been sentenced to eight years in prison by an appeals court, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The only evidence in his prosecution is apparently based on ...

Detainees Denied Basic Rights

August 6, 2008

(6 August 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran strongly condemned violations of due process in judicial proceedings against several Baha’is, doctors and students who have been held in incommunicadodetention for months and recently charged with security crimes. ...

Social Activist Yaghoub Mehrnehad Executed

August 4, 2008

(4 August 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has learned that Yaghoub Mehrnehad (28), sentenced to death following an unfair trial, was executed today. Mehrnehad is a well-known social activist in the southeastern province of ...

Kurdish Teacher Facing Execution Following Unfair Trial

July 31, 2008

(31 July 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has sent an open letter to the Head of Iran’s Judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, enumerating grave legal flaws in the trial of convicted Kurdish teacher Farzad Kamangar, and ...

End Executions of Juvenile Offenders

July 30, 2008

(Geneva, 30 July, 2008) The Iranian judiciary should immediately halt all executions of juvenile offenders and Iran’s parliament should move swiftly to ban such executions, a group of human rights organizations said today. The groups, which include Amnesty International, Human Rights ...

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