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Kurdish Political Prisoner Transferred to Undisclosed Location, in Danger of Imminent Execution

Kurdish Political Prisoner Transferred to Undisclosed Location, in Danger of Imminent Execution

May 13, 2013

Habibollah Golparipour, a Kurdish political prisoner on death row, was summoned by the Semnan Central Prison officials on May 9 and informed that he must prepare himself for transfer to an undisclosed location, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Golparipour was not informed of the reason for his transfer. ...

Young Kurd Sentenced to Prison in Exile on Political Charges

Young Kurd Sentenced to Prison in Exile on Political Charges

May 13, 2013

Afshin Sohrabzadeh, 23, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison in exile at Minab Prison on charges of “moharebeh (enmity with God) through membership in Komalah Party,” a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Sohrabzadeh was transferred from the Sanandaj Central Prison to Minab Prison 14 months ago and ...

“My Sattar Died for Iran”: An Interview with Sattar Beheshti’s Mother

“My Sattar Died for Iran”: An Interview with Sattar Beheshti’s Mother

May 8, 2013

More than six months after the prison death of Sattar Beheshti, a laborer and blogger from Robat Karim (17 miles outside Tehran) who was arrested on November 3, 2012, and died the next day, his mother and sister have not been able to face in court the men who murdered the 35-year-old man under torture ...

103-Year-Old Political Prisoner Held at Maku Prison

103-Year-Old Political Prisoner Held at Maku Prison

May 8, 2013

Haj Ali Chilan, 103, is currently serving an eight-year prison term at Maku Prison on charges of “cooperating with PJAK [Party of Free Life of Kurdistan],” a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Chilan, from Zolka Village near Maku, is in dire physical condition as a result of old age ...

Refugee Iranian Photojournalist In Turkish Security Prison

Refugee Iranian Photojournalist In Turkish Security Prison

May 5, 2013

The Turkish authorities arrested Hossein Salmanzadeh, an Iranian photojournalist and a refugee in Turkey, on April 26 and have detained him inside the Ankara Security Police Detention Center, Javad Moghimi Parsa told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. According to Javad Moghimi, Salmanzadeh’s close friend and former colleague, Salmanzadeh embarked on a dry ...

No Furlough, Phone Calls, or Visitations for Imprisoned Journalist

No Furlough, Phone Calls, or Visitations for Imprisoned Journalist

May 1, 2013

Three years into his detention, imprisoned journalist Siamak Ghaderi has not been granted a single day of furlough, and he does not have permission to visit with his family, his wife told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. As a prisoner of conscience, he is also denied access to a telephone, she added. ...

Bagher Asadi, a High Ranking Diplomat, And Two Political Activists Arrested

Bagher Asadi, a High Ranking Diplomat, And Two Political Activists Arrested

May 1, 2013

Bagher Asadi, a high-ranking Iranian diplomat was detained in Tehran in March as a part of the crackdown on dissidents in the weeks leading to the Iranian presidential elections, Reuters reported. Asadi, who had previously worked in the Iranian UN Mission in New York, was a director of the Istanbul-based D8 Group of Developing Countries. ...

67-year-old Baha’i Prisoner’s Psychological and Physical Health Suffers

67-year-old Baha’i Prisoner’s Psychological and Physical Health Suffers

April 26, 2013

Riaz Sobhani, a 67-year-old Baha’i citizen imprisoned since June 2011 for financially assisting the Baha’i Institute of Higher Education (BIHE), is in dire physical and psychological conditions, especially considering his age, his son told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The Baha’i prisoner was hospitalized in May 2012 for an acute heart condition. ...

Accused of Waging “Soft War,” Christian Pastor Beaten in Iran’s Evin Prison

Accused of Waging “Soft War,” Christian Pastor Beaten in Iran’s Evin Prison

April 23, 2013

Christian pastor Saeed Abedini was conducting a routine visit to the non-profit orphanage his family helped to start in Rasht when Iranian security forces arrested him and seized his passport in July 2012. Five months later, Iranian courts convicted him of “undermining national security,” accusing him and other Christian converts of waging a “soft war” ...

Political Prisoner Ends Hunger Strike as Orumiyeh Intelligence Pressures Other Prisoners

Political Prisoner Ends Hunger Strike as Orumiyeh Intelligence Pressures Other Prisoners

April 17, 2013

Political prisoner Adel Jalali ended his 11-day hunger strike on March 28 after prison officials at Orumiyeh Central Prison agreed to cooperate with him, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The source added that the Prison Intelligence Unit has been pressuring four other political prisoners at Orumiyeh, repeatedly summoning ...

Tehran Prosecutor Denies Furlough to Abdolfattah Soltani

Tehran Prosecutor Denies Furlough to Abdolfattah Soltani

April 16, 2013

Despite the family’s presentation of a property deed as collateral, Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi refused to grant furlough to imprisoned lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani, the latter’s daughter told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Maedeh Soltani told the Campaign that the Prosecutor refused her father’s furlough request two days before Persian New Year, ...

Dervish Lawyers in Dire Health at Evin Prison

Dervish Lawyers in Dire Health at Evin Prison

April 16, 2013

Seven Dervish lawyers being held at the Intelligence Ministry’s Ward 209 at Evin Prison have not had access to light in months and have developed various illnesses, the wife of one of the lawyers told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Sedigheh Khalili, the wife of imprisoned lawyer Hamidreza Moradi, added that officials ...

Abrupt Reversal of Ceased Prosecution Keeps Seifzadeh in Prison

Abrupt Reversal of Ceased Prosecution Keeps Seifzadeh in Prison

April 10, 2013

The judicial orders for imprisoned lawyer Mohammad Seifzadeh, charged with “illegal border exit with the intent to act against national security,” have changed from “ceased prosecution” to “guilty” without notice, causing him to remain in prison even after serving his initial sentence on separate charges. ...

Podcast 57: Dr. Ahmed Shaheed on Elections, Women’s Rights

Podcast 57: Dr. Ahmed Shaheed on Elections, Women’s Rights

April 10, 2013

Referencing “key opposition leaders in detention” and “quite serious webs of arrests of journalists,” Dr. Ahmed Shaheed says, “In an election year, these kinds of activities can negate any sense of a legitimate ...

Kurdish Prisoner Sentenced for Murder Without Evidence

Kurdish Prisoner Sentenced for Murder Without Evidence

April 2, 2013

An Orumiyeh Penal Court found a Kurdish political prisoner guilty last week of murdering two Revolutionary Guards members, though no evidence, witnesses, nor confessions were presented in the case, a local activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The prisoner, Ali Ahmad Soleiman, had previously completed a six-year prison term on political ...

Death Row Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Iran

Death Row Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Iran

March 28, 2013

Six Arab-Iranian prisoners have been on hunger strike at Ahvaz’s Karoon Prison since March 3 in protest of the judicial process in their cases and their extreme sentences, a cousin of two of the prisoners told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Five of the prisoners have been sentenced to death, the sixth ...

UN Human Rights Council Overwhelmingly Votes to Renew Iran Mandate

UN Human Rights Council Overwhelmingly Votes to Renew Iran Mandate

March 22, 2013

(March 22, 2013) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 26 to 2 vote to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran for the third consecutive year. The Campaign also urged Iranian authorities to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur ...

Joint Statement Decries “Rampant Culture of Impunity” at UN Human Rights Council

Joint Statement Decries “Rampant Culture of Impunity” at UN Human Rights Council

March 20, 2013

In an oral statement delivered to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) expressed extreme concern “at the rampant culture of impunity and lack of accountability that protects and encourages acts of torture” in Iran. The statement, delivered March 12, 2013, ...

Cartoon 48: Nowruz 1392

Cartoon 48: Nowruz 1392

March 19, 2013

As Iranians around the world prepare to celebrate the new year, hundreds of prisoners of conscience remain behind bars in Iran. The Persian New Year, Nowruz, is the most important holiday in Iran, beginning at the moment of the vernal equinox. While the news website Kaleme reports that a dozen political prisoners have been granted ...

Condemn Systemic Violations and Renew the UN Special Rapporteur’s Mandate

Condemn Systemic Violations and Renew the UN Special Rapporteur’s Mandate

March 18, 2013

This week, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran joined 16 other human rights organizations in a joint letter asking the United Nations Human Rights Council to renew the mandate Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed. ...

Iranian Kurdish Businessman Detained Without Contact

Iranian Kurdish Businessman Detained Without Contact

March 18, 2013

Two Iranian Kurds, including the brother of acclaimed filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, were arrested in Sanandaj on November 3, 2012, on non-specific national security accusations. While Behrouz Ghobadi was released a few weeks later, his business partner Rahmatollah Moadi remains at Evin Prison with no visitation rights and no official charges, his brother Nemat Moadi told ...

Special Rapporteur’s March 2013 report on the situation of human rights in Iran

Special Rapporteur’s March 2013 report on the situation of human rights in Iran

March 13, 2013

The present report is the second to be submitted to the Human Rights Council, pursuant to Council resolution 16/9, and communicates developments in the human rights situation of the Islamic Republic of Iran that have transpired since the submission of the Special Rapporteur’s second interim report to the 67th session of the General Assembly (A/67/369) ...

Denial and Personal Attacks: Iran’s Larijani Responds at the UN

Denial and Personal Attacks: Iran’s Larijani Responds at the UN

March 12, 2013

United Nations Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed elicited a blustering response from the Iranian delegation when he presented the findings of his most recent report on the situation of human rights in Iran to the Human Rights Council yesterday. In remarks both yesterday and today, Iranian delegation leader and Iranian Human Rights Council head Mohammad Javad ...

Large Scale Arrests of Kurdish Civil Activists in Mahabad and Sanandaj

Large Scale Arrests of Kurdish Civil Activists in Mahabad and Sanandaj

March 12, 2013

Mahabad Intelligence Office forces have arrested several Kurdish civil activists and journalists over the past few weeks, transferring them to the Mahabad Intelligence Office’s Information Unit and telling their families not to talk about the arrests, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The identities of several of those arrested ...

Cartoon 46: First They Came for the Journalists. . .

Cartoon 46: First They Came for the Journalists. . .

March 7, 2013

Continuing the latest crackdown on journalists that began on January 26, Iranian officials banned three publications in Tehran today and arrested three more journalists this week. Since January 26, twenty journalists have been arrested in Iran. “Our aim is to prevent the emergence of a sedition prior to the elections,” Iran’s Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi ...

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