Societal Demand in Iran for Female Representation in Government is Unstoppable
Hardliners' Entrenched Resistance is Overcome in Polls An overlooked outcome of Iran’s recent elections is the unprecedented success of women, who ...
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March 19, 2016
Lawyer Who Took on Ahmadinejad Says Iranians Should Sue Government for Pollution Crisis
Iranians have a constitutional right to take their government to court and seek damages for worsening environmental pollution, attorney Mostafa Tork Hamadani told the International Campaign ...
March 18, 2016
New App Lets Iranians Download Information Via Satellite and Bypass State’s Internet Censorship
Mehdi Yahyanejad, Toosheh's founder. A young company run by a group of Iranian-American professionals based in California has developed a ...
March 18, 2016
Iranian Political Activist Exiled Following Four Years of Imprisonment
Saeed Madani, a political activist and academic, was exiled to the southern port city of Bandar Abbas on March 16, 2016 after serving four ...
March 18, 2016
In Bid to Save Ailing Son, Political Prisoner’s Father Threatens Hunger Strike
The father of ailing political prisoner Hossein Ronaghi Maleki will launch a hunger strike in front of the Tehran prosecutor’s office unless steps ...
March 14, 2016
Why the UN Human Rights Mechanisms Must Continue to Monitor Iran’s Human Rights Situation
This video explains why it is so imperative that the United Nations Human Rights Council ensures the Special Rapporteur and other UN mechanisms continue their critical work of monitoring Iran’s human rights situation, given the severe rights violations that persist in Iran and Tehran’s refusal ...
March 14, 2016
Iranians Looking Abroad to Escape State-Controlled Internet
Data privacy and censorship concerns are driving Iranian companies and individuals to foreign Internet servers because domestic providers are powerless to protect their customers ...
March 11, 2016
Cartoon 143: Norooz
The Spring Equinox marks Norooz, the start of the Persian New Year. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran takes this opportunity to wish everyone ...
March 10, 2016
Mass Child Marriage Ceremony in Iran Denied by Local Officials
Fifty high school students were married in a mass ceremony in the Iranian city of Parsian, according to local news reports. But ...
March 10, 2016
Imprisoned Reformist Iranian Journalist Hospitalized After Prolonged Hunger Strike
Issa Saharkhiz, imprisoned reformist journalist and former political prisoner, was hospitalized on March 9, 2016 due to life-threatening health deterioration from successive hunger strikes. ...
March 8, 2016
Iran Elections: Reformists Win Voter Support Despite Roadblocks and Irregularities
While facing non-stop impediments, reformists and centrists achieved significant gains in Iran’s recent elections, even after hardline bodies broke ...
March 7, 2016
Harsh Sentences of Human Rights Activist and Wife Confirmed by Iran Appeals Court
An Appeals Court in Iran has upheld the 15-year prison sentence of the student activist Arash Sadeghi for “collusion against national security,” “propaganda against ...
March 7, 2016
Former Political Prisoner Gets One-Year Prison Sentence On Recycled Charges
Navid Kamran, a former political prisoner, has been sentenced to one year in prison without any new evidence supporting the charge against him of ...
March 4, 2016
Cartoon 142: International Women’s Day
On this March 8, 2016, International Women’s Day, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran urges all to strive for a world where ...
March 3, 2016
Iranian Activist Receives Six-Month Prison Sentence for Facebook Posts
The civil rights activist Esmail Ahmadi-Ragheb has been sentenced to six months in prison for “propaganda against the state” by Branch 1 of the ...
March 3, 2016
Pro-Rouhani Political Prisoner Urged Iranians to Vote in 2016 Elections
“Now President Rouhani should carry out his promise of two years ago to free political prisoners.” The mother of a young man believed to be ...
March 1, 2016
Iranian Music Distributors Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
Three music distributors have each been sentenced to three years in prison and fined 200 million rials (approximately $6,600 ...
March 1, 2016
Iran Vote: Political Freedoms Must Be Rouhani’s Top Priority
Electorate Wants Human Rights and Rouhani Must Deliver March 1, 2016—In the elections for Parliament and the Assembly of Experts held across Iran ...
February 25, 2016
Rouhani Administration Under Pressure to Shut Down Iran’s Most Popular Mobile App Prior to Election
Telegram Has Emerged as Major Platform for Reformist and Centrist Candidates Iran’s Telecommunication’s Ministry has been under intense pressure by hardline organizations, ...
February 24, 2016
Iranian Teacher’s Union Leader Sentenced to Six Years in Prison
The secretary general of the Teachers Association of Iran, Esmail Abdi, has been sentenced to six years in prison ...
February 24, 2016
Prominent Reformist Journalist Protests Solitary Confinement with Third Hunger Strike
The imprisoned political journalist Issa Saharkhiz has resumed his hunger strike after being placed in solitary confinement on February ...
February 24, 2016
Watchmen or Yes-Men: Competing Views on the Assembly of Experts Elections
Oversight and accountability…or a bunch of yes-men fawning over the Supreme Leader? This new Campaign video takes a look at two competing views on the role of the Assembly of Experts which cut to the core of the choice Iran faces as it approaches elections ...
February 23, 2016
Iran to Spend $36 Million on Internet “Smart Filtering,” to No Avail
The Iranian government, in a joint project with several domestic universities, is spending $36 million to develop what it calls “smart filtering” ...
February 23, 2016
Father of Missing Student Sentenced to Jail and Lashes for Pursuing Son’s Case
The 70-year-old father of a student who has not been heard from for 17 years since his arrest has been sentenced to 91 days ...
February 23, 2016
Imprisoned Iranian-American Siamak Namazi Held Incommunicado without Access to Lawyer
Namazi Reportedly on Hunger Strike at Evin Now Siamak Namazi, the Iranian-American businessman who was arrested in October while visiting family in Tehran, ...