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Cartoon 54: Justice, Mortazavi Style

Cartoon 54: Justice, Mortazavi Style

July 15, 2013

Three young men died. Dozens of others were abused psychologically, physically, and sexually in Kahrizak Detention Center, where they were sent because they protested the 2009 presidential election results. More than three years ...

Kurdish Lawyer Charged with Support of Kurdish Parties and Contacting UN

Kurdish Lawyer Charged with Support of Kurdish Parties and Contacting UN

July 15, 2013

After 37 days of lawyer Massoud Shamsinejad’s detention, Branch 5 of Orumiyeh Special Crimes Courts informed him of political charges against him, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Shamsinejad, an Orumiyeh lawyer who has represented many Kurdish political prisoners, has been charged with “supporting Kurdish parties,” “contacting foreign media,” ...

Sattar Beheshti’s Aggressor Could Still Be Prosecuted

Sattar Beheshti’s Aggressor Could Still Be Prosecuted

July 12, 2013

The Head of the Iranian Medical Examiner’s Office said on Tuesday, July 9, that according to his organization’s final report, the blows dealt to blogger Sattar Beheshti during his interrogation were not fatal and could not have caused his death, Mehr News Agency reported. Dr. Ahmad Shojaee also told Mehr that in the Medical ...

Journalist’s Family Puzzled by Her Arrest: She Did Nothing Wrong

Journalist’s Family Puzzled by Her Arrest: She Did Nothing Wrong

July 11, 2013

Security forces arrested journalist Fariba Pajouh on July 10 in Tehran, though a family member of hers told the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the reasons for her arrest are unclear. ...

Young Political Prisoner Attempts Suicide in Minab Prison

Young Political Prisoner Attempts Suicide in Minab Prison

July 8, 2013

Afshin Sohrabzadeh, a young Kurdish prisoner at Minab Prison, attempted suicide on Wednesday, July 3, in protest of his exile and what he called the “deplorable conditions” of the facility, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The source, a human rights activist, told the Campaign that Sohrabzadeh, sentenced to ...

No Information About Christian Converts, Continued Pressure on Members of Evangelical Churches

No Information About Christian Converts, Continued Pressure on Members of Evangelical Churches

July 8, 2013

One month after the arrest of three Christian converts in Isfahan, their conditions remain unknown and there is no news about their fate. According to reports from the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran’s sources, since the May 29 arrests of Mohammad Reza Farid, Saeed Safi, and Hamid Reza Ghadiri, their families have been ...

Nasrin Sotoudeh Returned to Evin after Short Furlough

Nasrin Sotoudeh Returned to Evin after Short Furlough

July 8, 2013

Reza Khandan said that despite authorities’ promises for a furlough that could lead to Sotoudeh’s release, she was summoned back to Evin Prison and none of her letters requesting an extension of her furlough were answered. Khandan told the Campaign that his wife returned to prison on the evening of Sunday, July 7. ...

Security Forces Transfer Mousavi to Hospital Twice in 24 Hours, But Refuse Hospitalization

Security Forces Transfer Mousavi to Hospital Twice in 24 Hours, But Refuse Hospitalization

July 3, 2013

Over the past 24 hours, Mir Hossein Mousavi was transferred twice to the Tehran Heart Center. According to Kaleme website, after a two-month delay, on Tuesday, July 2, Mir Hossein Mousavi was transferred to the Tehran Heart Center for some medical tests. The Committee of Human Rights Reporters reported that Mousavi was again transferred to ...

Astonishment at Kahrizak Ruling: Mortazavi Sentenced to $60 Fine and Five Years’ Dismissal From Government Jobs

Astonishment at Kahrizak Ruling: Mortazavi Sentenced to $60 Fine and Five Years’ Dismissal From Government Jobs

July 3, 2013

A lower court ruling in the Kahrizak case issued yesterday indicates that the three suspects in the case were permanently dismissed from judicial positions, and further dismissed from government employment for five years. To the astonishment of observers, Saeed Mortazavi, the prime suspect in the case, was acquitted from the charge of “participation in murder,” ...

Political Prisoners at Rajaee Shahr Prison Sign Condolence Message for Osanloo Family

Political Prisoners at Rajaee Shahr Prison Sign Condolence Message for Osanloo Family

July 2, 2013

Sixty-three political prisoners inside Ward 4, Hall 12, of Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj wrote a message of condolences to the family of Afshin Osanloo for the political prisoner’s death. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran received the message for publication. ...

Acknowledge Sattar Died In the Hands of His Interrogator, Demands Beheshti Lawyer

Acknowledge Sattar Died In the Hands of His Interrogator, Demands Beheshti Lawyer

June 27, 2013

The lawyer for Sattar Beheshti, a blogger who died in November 2012 while in the custody of the Iranian Cyber Police (FATA), said her client’s case has not been forwarded to court and objected to the eight-month delay in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Sunni Prisoners Pressured to Falsely Confess for TV Documentary

Sunni Prisoners Pressured to Falsely Confess for TV Documentary

June 27, 2013

On the morning of June 10, eight Sunni prisoners at Rajaee Shahr Prison were asked to confess to certain actions for a documentary film, a source familiar with conditions of religious minority prisoners at the prison told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The source said that agents from Ministry of Intelligence told ...

Prisoner of Conscience Said To Be Alive, Though No One Has Seen Him In Prison

Prisoner of Conscience Said To Be Alive, Though No One Has Seen Him In Prison

June 26, 2013

Following rumors that prisoner of conscience Arash Sadeghi had died in prison, his former lawyer told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he is alive, though the lawyer refused to answer questions about whether Sadeghi had been beaten in prison. Sadeghi’s former cellmate told the Campaign no prisoners have seen him, and ...

Osanloo’s Family Calls for Investigation Into His Prison Death

Osanloo’s Family Calls for Investigation Into His Prison Death

June 26, 2013

The family of deceased prisoner of conscience Afshin Osanloo has requested that the Medical Examiner investigate his cause of death, his sister told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Osanloo’s official cause of death on June 20, 2013, has been listed as a heart attack, but his sister Fereshteh Osanloo said he did ...

Iran Accelerates Crackdown on Media and Dissidents Prior to Election

Iran Accelerates Crackdown on Media and Dissidents Prior to Election

June 10, 2013

Iranian authorities should immediately stop censoring newspapers and news websites, arresting political activists, and muzzling foreign journalists within the country, ahead of the June 14 presidential election, the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

Even on Death Row, Sunni Prisoners Mistreated for Religious Beliefs

Even on Death Row, Sunni Prisoners Mistreated for Religious Beliefs

June 5, 2013

At Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, 20 Sunni prisoners, facing charges such as “acting against national security” for their proselytizing activities, have been convicted of “moharebeh” [enmity with God], a capital crime, and face an unsuitable atmosphere in prison where they are constantly disrespected by prison forces for their beliefs, a source with knowledge of ...

UN Experts Decry Discrimination Against Women Candidates, Imprisonment of Journalists

UN Experts Decry Discrimination Against Women Candidates, Imprisonment of Journalists

May 29, 2013

In a statement released today, five United Nations human rights experts warned that Iran is seriously violating international law by its continued discrimination against women presidential candidates and the ongoing suppression of the press, as well as its violations of freedoms of association and assembly. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes the ...

Student Activist Forcefully Arrested to Serve Prison Sentence

Student Activist Forcefully Arrested to Serve Prison Sentence

May 29, 2013

Security forces stormed the home of Ashkan Zahabian, a former Mashhad University student and member of the Daftar Tahkim Vahdat Student Organization General Council, arrested him, and transferred him to Babol’s Mati Kola Prison on May 27, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. According to the source, the security forces ...

Kahrizak Trial Ends: Families Await Ruling on Deaths in Prison

Kahrizak Trial Ends: Families Await Ruling on Deaths in Prison

May 23, 2013

The eleventh and final session of the trial for the deaths in Kahrizak Prison of three detainees in 2009 was held on Wednesday, May 22. Though the judge has not yet announced the adjournment of the trial, the lawyers told the press that the defendants had issued their last defense and there would be no ...

Kahrizak Plaintiff Withdraws Murder Suit Against Mortazavi; No Witnesses Summoned

Kahrizak Plaintiff Withdraws Murder Suit Against Mortazavi; No Witnesses Summoned

May 21, 2013

The tenth session of the trial of former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi and two other officials for the deaths in Kahrizak Prison of three detainees in 2009 opened yesterday with the father of one of the victims withdrawing his “participation in murder” suit against Mortazavi. The eleventh and final session of the trial is being ...

Prisoners of Conscience Recalled from Furlough, Journalists Threatened in Tehran

Prisoners of Conscience Recalled from Furlough, Journalists Threatened in Tehran

May 21, 2013

Two journalists and a blogger previously released on furlough have been recalled to prison and are expected to turn themselves in today, and imprisoned lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s promised furlough has not been granted. Security forces have also recently summoned several other journalists in Tehran and have made telephone calls warning them not to support a ...

Kurdish Political Prisoner Sews Lips on Hunger Strike in Orumiyeh Prison

Kurdish Political Prisoner Sews Lips on Hunger Strike in Orumiyeh Prison

May 21, 2013

Mostafa Mesri, a 26-year-old Kurdish political prisoner from Oshnovieh in Western Azerbaijan Province who has been in prison for the past two years, sewed his lips shut and embarked on a hunger strike on May 19 to protest Orumiyeh Central Prison officials’ lack of attention to his request for transfer to Naghadeh Prison, a local ...

Three Months after Crackdown in Mahabad, Three Remain in Custody

Three Months after Crackdown in Mahabad, Three Remain in Custody

May 20, 2013

Several Mahabad citizens arrested in February have been released on bail from Mahabad Prison over the past several weeks, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Two detainees, Farough Samani and his cousin Reza Samani, however, remain in “temporary detention” in a state of limbo. Another Kurdish citizen, Khedr Rasoul ...

Kurdish Death Row Prisoner Transferred, His Lawyer Arrested

Kurdish Death Row Prisoner Transferred, His Lawyer Arrested

May 20, 2013

A Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death has been transferred back to Orumiyeh Central Prison after spending 15 months inside the Semnan Central Prison, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Habibollah Golparipour had been transferred from Semnan Central Prison to an undisclosed location in the second week of May. ...

“I Didn’t See A Need to Summon Those Witnesses,” Says the Kahrizak Judge

“I Didn’t See A Need to Summon Those Witnesses,” Says the Kahrizak Judge

May 14, 2013

The eighth trial session of judges implicated in the Kahrizak Detention Center case was held on Monday, May 13 at Branch 76 of Tehran Penal Court under Judge Siamak Modir Khorasani. As in the previous seven sessions, the court session was held behind closed doors. Saeed Mortazavi, the main suspect charged with “participation in murder,” ...

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