Cartoon 32: Manipulating a Tragic Death in Prison
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Prisoners of Conscience
November 11, 2012
Cartoon 31: Never-ending Death in Prisons
Sattar Beheshti, 35, a laborer who criticzed the Iranian government for its oppressive policies in his blogs, was arrested on Tuesday, October 30. His arrest came after several warnings and summonses by Iran’s Cyber Police who had at one point threatened Beheshti that if he ...
November 9, 2012
Cartoon 30: Women Prisoners, Dignity and Hunger Strike
On October 30, a group of female political prisoners inside Evin Prison’s Ward 350 embarked on a hunger strike to protest their inhumane treatment by Evin Prison authorities following a raid by prison authorities during which the prisoners were subjected to degrading treatment. The group ...
October 30, 2012
UN Special Rapporteur: Iran’s Reputation Worsens Every Day Journalists Spend in Jail
“For every day [journalists] spend in jail, Iran suffers a reputational problem somewhere in the world,” UN Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed said in an exclusive interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “I signify … a heightened sense of caring by the ...
October 29, 2012
Cartoon 29: Persevering Even in Prison
Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent Iranian lawyer, has dedicated her life to fighting for human rights and defending prisoners of conscience in Iran. For her work, she was recently awarded the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. For her work, she is serving ...
October 26, 2012
Imprisoned Iranian Lawyer Awarded Sakharov Prize, Family Says She Is in Critical Condition
The European Parliament today awarded its prestigious Sakharov Prize for human rights and freedom of thought to imprisoned Iranian lawyer and human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh and prominent filmmaker Jafar Panahi. Both awardees have been sentenced to long prison sentences in Iran and bans on ...
October 23, 2012
Student Activist’s Psychological Health Suffers at Evin
“Siavash has lost a lot of weight and does not have a good psychological state. He is 24. He was a graduate student when he was abruptly banned from continuing his education, and then he was imprisoned. The month-long solitary confinement, loneliness, his education ban, ...
October 23, 2012
Nasrin Sotoudeh to Continue Hunger Strike Until Daughter’s Travel Ban Lifted
Protesting her prison conditions, Nasrin Sotoudeh embarked on a wet hunger strike beginning on Wednesday, October 17. Iranian Judiciary officials have not yet reacted to Sotoudeh’s demands. Nasrin Sotoudeh is objecting to her 12-year-old daughter’s travel ban and summons to court, the authorities’ refusal to ...
October 15, 2012
Iranian-American Amir Hekmati Languishes in Evin Prison, No Retrial in Sight
In the seven months since Iranian-American Amir Hekmati’s death sentence was overturned in Tehran, Iranian officials have ignored his family’s requests for information and has failed to schedule his retrial. Since his arrest, Hekmati’s father has been diagnosed with an aggressive and potentially fatal brain ...
October 3, 2012
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah Refuses to Make TV Confessions, Starts 9-Year Prison Sentence
Human rights lawyer and activist Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, who was under pressure to provide televised confessions against the Defenders of Human Rights Center, commenced his nine-year prison sentence at Evin Prison on Saturday, September 29. The prominent lawyer was also sentenced to a ten-year ban ...
October 2, 2012
Nobel Laureate Stresses the Plight of Imprisoned Teachers in Exclusive Interview
In an exclusive interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, 2003 Nobel laureate and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi spoke about a new teachers’ rights initiative and called on the Iranian government to “listen to the legitimate demands of the teachers and ...
September 27, 2012
Saeed Matinpour’s Requests Conditional Release and Furlough
In a September 22 interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, the wife of Saeed Matinpour, a civil activist and journalist from Azerbaijan Province currently serving an eight-year prison term, said that she had submitted her husband’s latest request for conditional release ...
September 26, 2012
Iranian Activists Stand Up for Dozens of Detained Teachers
(September 26, 2012) The Iranian Judiciary and security apparatus should immediately release teachers imprisoned for their participation in teachers associations. They must also stop all persecution and prosecution of teachers exercising their basic rights to assembly and association, the International Campaign for Human Rights said ...
September 22, 2012
Faezeh Hashemi Arrested To Begin Serving Six-Month Sentence
According to Iranian state news agency (IRNA), quoting the news website of Tehran Revolutionary and General Courts, former Member of the Iranian Parliament and Editor-in-Chief of the banned newspaper Zan, Faezeh Hashemi was arrested on Saturday night in Tehran, in order to begin serving her ...
September 5, 2012
Journalist Begins Prison Term, Two Others Transferred to Solitary Cells
Baniyaghoub was arrested on June 20, 2009, along with her husband, Bahman Ahmadi Amoueee, at their home. Sixty days later, she was released on bail. In June 2010, she was sentenced to one year in prison and a 30-year ban on journalistic activities on charges ...
April 6, 2012
Revolutionary Court Unqualified to Review Case, Says Mohammad Seifzadeh
“Mr. Seifzadeh will not appear at this court session again for the same reason as before–he does not recognize the Revolutionary Court as qualified to review this case. He believes he should be tried in the Tehran Province Criminal Court, in the presence of a ...
July 18, 2011
Weekly Rights Podcast 30
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: more than 50 officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran have been put on visa restriction lists by the US and UK; the son of political prisoner Heshmatollah Tabarzadi tells the Campaign of concern for Tabarzadi’s health; Hossein Ronaghi ...
June 11, 2011
Weekly Rights Podcast 28
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June 1, 2011
Weekly Rights Podcast 27
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: Rudi Bakhtiar of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran testifies at the United States Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing; the mothers of imprisoned American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal speak out; the Campaign joins a group calling ...
May 14, 2011
Weekly Rights Podcast 26
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April 18, 2011
Weekly Rights Podcast 24
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: the Pen American Center honors Nasrin Sotoudeh with their Freedom to Write award for her human rights work; Camp Ashraf in Iraq, home to roughly 3500 members of the People’s Mujahideen, came under attack by the Iraqi military on ...
May 27, 2009
Dr. Kamiar Alaei
(UPDATED) Dr. Kamiar Alaei is a doctoral candidate at the SUNY Albany School of Public Health in Albany, New York and was expected to resume his studies there in the fall of 2008. ...
May 27, 2009
Dr. Arash Alaei
(UPDATED) Dr. Arash Alaei is the former director of the International Education and Research Cooperation of the Iranian National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. ...
May 14, 2009
Baha’is Currently Imprisoned in Iran
Baha’is throughout Iran are routinely arrested and interrogated by government officials. This list is only the published and known names of those arrested. ...
May 1, 2009
Silva Harotonian
Silva Harotonian has been in detention since 26 June 2008. She is a former employee of the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) and was on her fourth brief trip to support a US-Iran exchange program for maternal and child health professionals when arrested. ...