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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 ...

Allow Activists Freedom of Movement

July 28, 2008

(28 July 2008) The Iranian government prevented Abdollah Momeni, a well-known human rights activist, from travelling to Malaysia to attend the upcoming Asia-Pacific Forum in Malaysia on 25 July, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Intelligence ...

New Arrests Target Student Activists

July 23, 2008

(23 July 2008) Security and intelligence agents are engaged in an extensive campaign of arbitrary detentions targeting student activists around the country, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. During the past two weeks, the authorities have detained ...

Juvenile Offender faces Imminent Execution despite Retraction of Sentence

July 21, 2008

(21 July 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is calling on the Iranian Judiciary to halt the imminent execution of Abu Moslem Sohrabi for a crime he allegedly committed at the age of 17. Local officials ...

Spare Four Youths From Execution

July 8, 2008

(Geneva, 08 July 2008) Today 24 international and regional human rights organizations called on Iranian authorities to spare four youths facing execution and to stop imposing the death penalty for crimes committed by juvenile offenders – persons who commit crimes ...

Women’s Rights Activist Sentenced to Five Years

June 21, 2008

(21 June 2008) Hana Abdi, a student and women’s rights activist from Sanandaj in Kurdistan who has been in prison since 4 November 2007, was sentenced on 18 June 2008 by Judge Tayari in Branch Two of the Sanandaj Revolutionary ...

114 Child Offenders Awaiting Hangman’s Noose

June 18, 2008

(18 June 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran published a list of 114 child offenders awaiting execution in Iran today, the first time such a list has been made available detailing the practice, which has been banned ...

Former Student Detainees Terrorized by their Interrogators

June 16, 2008

(16 June 2008) Security and intelligence agents are regularly contacting and terrorizing nine former student detainees with threats of prosecution under the charge of apostasy that can result in execution sentences. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is ...

ALERT: Nine Iranian Women Released After Daylong Detention

June 12, 2008

(12 June 2008) According to latest information from Tehran, all nine women’s rights activists detained today by security forces have been released. Security forces had detained the nine women and prevented a gathering on the anniversary of Iran’s historic 12 ...

Child Offender Put to Death

June 11, 2008

(11 June 2008) Iranian authorities hung Mohammad Hassanzadeh, a youth sentenced to death when he was only 15 years old, on 10 June 2008, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Hassanzadeh, born in 1992, was under ...

Support of Iranian Women on the Anniversary of 12 June 2006 Demonstration

June 10, 2008

(10 June, 2008) We, the undersigned, representing international women’s and human rights organizations, express our solidarity with Iranian women, on 12 June 2008. This is the day identified by women’s rights activists in Iran as their national day of ...

Groups Urge Iran to Cooperate with UN Rights Bodies

June 6, 2008

(Geneva, 6 June 2008) – The Iranian government should cooperate with United Nations human rights bodies in order to address the ongoing human rights abuses in the country, a group of international human rights organizations said today. The Iranian government’s refusal ...

Imprisoned Cleric’s Life in Danger

June 1, 2008

(1 June 2008) The Iranian Judiciary should immediately release Ayatollah Boroujerdi, an imprisoned cleric, so he may receive urgently needed specialist medical care, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Boroujerdi has been in prison since 2006, ...

Fatal Workplace Fire Highlights Need for Independent Workers Unions

May 29, 2008

(29 May 2008) Security forces and riot police attacked a peaceful gathering of thousands of workers from the Haft-Tapeh Sugar factory in the southern Iranian city of Shush on 26 May 2008, detaining 12 workers. The workers have been demonstrating ...

Urgent Appeal to Stop Imminent Juvenile Execution

May 21, 2008

(21 May 2008) The Iranian Judiciary should immediately stop the imminent execution of Saeed Jazzi for a crime he allegedly committed while he was under the age of 18, according to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Entire Baha’i Leadership in Iran Detained Without Charge

May 16, 2008

(16 May 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is calling on Iranian judicial authorities to account, in terms of Iranian and international law, for the detention on 14 May 2008 of six leading members of the Baha’i ...

An Appeal to the EU to Act, As Human Rights Deteriorate in Iran

May 7, 2008

(Brussels, 7 May 2008) The European Union (EU) should deny visas to Iranian officials who have participated in grave human rights abuses and freeze bank assets held in the EU, according to an appeal made by the International Campaign for ...

Report Documents the Persecution of Women’s Rights Activists in Iran

May 5, 2008

(5 May 2008) Iranian authorities have systematically thwarted peaceful and legal civil society efforts to advocate for women’s rights in Iran, abusing the legal system and gravely violating internationally protected civil rights in the process. “Equal Rights Denied—The Systematic Repression ...

Permit May Day Labor Observances

April 28, 2008

(28 April 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is appealing to Iranian authorities to allow independent labor activists to gather on 1 May to support fulfillment of their internationally guaranteed rights and express solidarity with one another. ...

Flogging and Prison Sentences for Women’s Rights Activists

April 22, 2008

(22 April 2008) The Iranian Judiciary has issued flogging and prison sentences for four campaigners for women’s rights, thus continuing its program of harassment and prosecution of the women’s rights movement. ...

Judiciary Must Review the Sentencing of Ehsan Mansouri, Majid Tavakoli and Ahmad Ghasaban

April 20, 2008

(20 April, 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is appealing to the head of Iran’s Judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, to review the sentencing by an appeals court of three students, Ehsan Mansouri, Majid Tavakoli and Ahmad ...

Austrian Firm Should Delay Investment Pending Abolition of Child Executions

April 16, 2008

(16 April, 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is urging the Austrian energy company Österreichische Mineralölverwaltung (OMV) to delay finalization of a 22 billion EURO investment agreement with the National Iranian Oil Company until Iran authorities agree ...

Students Resist Prosecution for Peaceful Protests

April 11, 2008

(11 April 2008) Students at Shiraz University are refusing to respond to summonses relating to their participation in peaceful protests in March. The students are reportedly outraged that the university administration is bringing charges of “causing rioting and chaos” against ...

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      April 6, 2026
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      March 31, 2026
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      March 25, 2026
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      March 19, 2026
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      March 5, 2026
    • Grave Concerns for the Safety of Political Prisoners and Detainees in Iran
      March 2, 2026
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      February 25, 2026
    • UN Experts Demand Iran Reveal Fate of Detainees, Halt Executions
      February 20, 2026
    • Op-Ed: Iran’s Protests Have Ended. The State’s Terror Campaign Has Not.
      February 16, 2026
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      February 12, 2026
    • Unreported Atrocities: Eyewitnesses Detail Massive and Deadly State Crackdown Against Protesters in Iran’s Provincial Cities
      January 30, 2026
    • Statement From Physicians in Iran: ‘Being a Doctor Is Not a Crime’
      January 29, 2026
    • UN Human Rights Council Extends Iran Fact-Finding Mission, Condemns 'Deadliest Crackdown against Iranian People Since 1979 Revolution'
      January 26, 2026
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      January 23, 2026
    • 30+ Rights Groups Sound Alarm Over Grave Risks to Detainees in Iran Amid Blackout
      January 15, 2026
    • Exclusive Interview: Physician Treating Protesters in Iran Describes Mass Casualties, Overwhelmed Hospitals
      January 12, 2026
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      January 9, 2026
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      January 6, 2026
    • UN: Iran Must Stop Execution of 67-Year-Old Iranian Woman
      December 28, 2025
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      December 17, 2025
    • Narges Mohammadi and other Activists Violently Arrested at Memorial Service for Slain Lawyer
      December 12, 2025
    • Over 80 Iranian Lawyers Demand Transparency in Suspicious Death of Human Rights Lawyer Khosro Alikordi
      December 11, 2025
    • UN: Iran Must Halt Execution of Woman Survivor of Child Marriage and Abuse
      December 3, 2025
    • Eight Political Prisoners at Grave Risk of Execution as Death Sentences Upheld
      November 25, 2025
    • Victim of Child Marriage Faces Execution in Iran
      November 13, 2025
    • Writers and Scholars Arrested and Held Incommunicado in Iran
      November 6, 2025
    • Iran Shuts Down Oldest NGO Supporting Vulnerable Children, Detains Founder
      November 3, 2025
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      November 3, 2025
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      October 27, 2025
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