Upon completion of his three-year prison term, journalist Issa Saharkhiz has been sentenced to an additional 1.5 years in prison, despite a medical commission’s determination that he is unable to endure his punishment. “They don’t want my father released, so they put him on trial again,” his son, Mehdi Saharkhiz, told the International Campaign for ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, sister of Hamid Ghassemi,a prisoner whose death sentence has been sent to the Judiciary’s Sentence Enforcement Unit, reported about her brother’s poor psychological state in prison. “Unfortunately, Hamid is really messed up psychologically. Any moment his sentence may be carried out and we ...
On June 12, at least 50 prisoners of conscience in Evin Prison refused to use their visitation rights in protest of the treatment of political prisoners and in commemoration of the third anniversary of the 2009 post–presidential election demonstrations. Several of the prisoners were subsequently transferred to the Intelligence Ministry’s Ward 209. ...
On the third anniversary of the disputed 2009 Iranian presidential election, six political prisoners have been transferred to the Intelligence Ministry’s Ward 209 at Evin Prison. Sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that they are concerned about the way the intelligence forces may treat these prisoners. Yesterday, at least 50 prisoners ...
Five political prisoners sentenced to execution were transferred from the General Ward of Karoon Prison in Ahvaz to an unknown location on Saturday, 9 June. A local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Police Special Forces have been stationed in Karoon Prison and that it has created a worrying atmosphere....
Narges Mohammadi, a human rights lawyer and deputy director of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, began a six-year sentence on 22 April 2012 for “assembly and collusion against national security,” “membership in the Defenders of Human Rights Center,” and “propagating against the regime”–in other words, for doing her job. Like many prisoners of conscience, ...
Massoud Bastani, a journalist for reformist newspapers, was arrested on 5 July 2009 in the aftermath of the presidential election. He was arrested when he appeared at the Revolutionary Court to follow up on his wife’s charges. He is currently serving his six-year prison sentence in Rajaee Shahr prison in Karaj. Mahsa Amrabadi, fellow journalist ...
66-year old Riaz Sobhani, currently in prison for financially assisting the Baha’i Institute of Higher Education (BIHE), was refused medical leave after his recent heart surgery. His son, Naim Sobhani, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his father was transferred to the hospital for his surgery in chains. ...
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran joins 16 other student and human rights organizations in a statement expressing deep concern for the right to education and academic freedom in Iran. The statement, addressed to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, calls for Iran to uphold its obligations ...
A local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that on 21 May, Orumiyeh Prison authorities transferred Kurdish political prisoner Jahangir Badozadeh to the drug traffickers’ ward. The source added that authorities were previously keeping him in solitary confinement. ...
(25 May 2012) The Iranian Judiciary should immediately provide medical care for political prisoner Hossein Ronaghi Maleki and avoid another human tragedy, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. It should also end its systematic policy of denying medical care to prisoners of conscience, thereby causing them permanent physical harm and disability, ...
(15 May 2012) Omid Kokabee, an Iranian graduate student who has been imprisoned in Tehran for the past 15 months, was sentenced to 10 years on Sunday for allegedly conspiring with foreign countries against Iran. Judge Abolghasem Salavati of Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolution Court — who is famous for his harsh sentences — tried 10 ...
The family of Saeed Malekpour, an Iranian-Canadian who was sentenced to death in January 2012, was finally allowed to see him after three months of not being able to visit him. His sister, Maryam Malekpour, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Saeed’s interrogators have prevented him from seeing his family. ...
Human rights lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he has been under immense pressure during recent days to make false televised confessions. “Tomorrow is my last day to either make television confessions or go to prison. I will go to prison, and I will not [be forced ...
Just prior to his release, Kasra Nouri, a member of the Gonabadi Dervish order, was ordered to remain in prison, his mother, Shokoofeh Yadollahi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “Following the efforts of the lawyer and the family, Kasra was supposed to have been released last week, but, unfortunately, on orders ...
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation has published a statement calling attention to the human rights crisis in Iran and, in particular, urging for the release of Mourning Mothers supporter Mansoureh Behkish, who was recently sentenced to four and a half years in prison. CIVICUS is an organization dedicated to empowering various forms of civil ...
After detaining 33-year-old Christian pastor Farshid Fathi for 16 months without indictment, judicial authorities finally sentenced him to six years in prison in April 2012. Fathi’s indictment is part of a continuing pattern of discrimination and persecution of Christian converts in Iran. ...
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran released a video, Iran’s Future Held Captive, and accompanying letter-writing initiative today calling attention to the government’s intensified crackdown on Iranian campuses. This video stands in solidarity with a call by the Iranian student association Daftar Tahkim Vahdat and alumni association Advar Tahkim Vahdat, and Speak Out ...
Judge Salavati has upheld the nine-year prison sentence for prominent lawyer and distinguished human rights activist Mohammad Ali Dadkhah. Dadkhah told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he was only informed of the decision when he went to court to follow up on a client’s case. “I went to the Revolutionary Court on ...
A local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Kurdish political prisoner Ali Moradi has sewn his lips and embarked on a hunger strike since 4 April to protest his “illegal exile from Minab Prison to Bandar Abbas Prison.” The source stated that Ali Moradi suffers from a heart condition and ...
After months of receiving no response to their letters, Zanyar and Loghman Moradi, two Kurdish prisoners on death row, were finally visited by a Judiciary representative on Tuesday, 24 April. A Mr. Khodabakhshi, who identified himself as a representative of the Head of the Iranian Judiciary, met with Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi (no relation) ...
Shirkoo Moarefi, a Kurdish political prisoner on death row, has embarked on hunger strike to protest his ambiguous legal status in prison. Saeed Sheikhi, Moarefi’s lawyer, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the Supreme Court unlawfully took on his client’s case. ...
Featuring journalist Roxana Saberi and Iran Specialist for Amnesty International USA Elise Auerbach, “A Voice for the Voiceless: Roxana Saberi” from the Angels of Iran series tells the story of Roxanna Saberi’s time in prison with Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi. These two were members of the Yaran (“the Friends”), who were sentenced to 20 ...
The parents of imprisoned student Javad Alikhani told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that they watched the guards at Evin Prison beat up their son. Authorities also prevented the family from having an in-person visit. “We had taken heavy duty glue for Hossein to fix his broken eyeglasses. They give us so ...
Prominent human rights defender Narges Mohammadi was arrested this Sunday and is currently in an unknown location. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Mohammadi’s husband Taghi Rahmani said that the family’s efforts to find our her location have been fruitless. “Narges has not called home since yesterday and her family’s ...