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Ninety-two Student Groups in Iran Criticize Rouhani for Unfulfilled Promises

Ninety-two Student Groups in Iran Criticize Rouhani for Unfulfilled Promises

August 2, 2016

Ninety-two university student groups have issued a joint letter to President Hassan Rouhani criticizing the persistent “atmosphere of fear and intimidation” in Iran’s universities following a spate of attacks and sabotage against peaceful student activities.  “Programs organized ...

Commentary: Iran’s Foreign Minister Toes the Supreme Leader’s Line on Human Rights

Commentary: Iran’s Foreign Minister Toes the Supreme Leader’s Line on Human Rights

June 21, 2016

ICHRI- When Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently tried to side-step questions about the country’s abysmal human rights record, he yet again exposed his government’s inability—or reluctance—to face the issue even though President Hassan Rouhani came to power in 2013 promising to improve it.  ...

New Video: Time for Anti-Baha’i Discrimination to End in Iran

New Video: Time for Anti-Baha’i Discrimination to End in Iran

June 7, 2016

State Officials Launch New Wave of Verbal Attacks after Former President’s Daughter Visits Baha’i Prisoner June 07, 2016—The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Impact Iran released an animated video today calling for an end to the discrimination and incitement to hatred against members of ...

Voices from Iran: What are your expectations of President Rouhani?

Voices from Iran: What are your expectations of President Rouhani?

April 11, 2016

 In this new video, the Campaign asks Iranians from all walks of life inside and outside Iran to share their hopes and expectations of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani for the New Persian year....

Why the UN Human Rights Mechanisms Must Continue to Monitor Iran’s Human Rights Situation

Why the UN Human Rights Mechanisms Must Continue to Monitor Iran’s Human Rights Situation

March 14, 2016

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 to implement the dozens of promises it has made to ...

Judiciary Claims No Knowledge of Student Not Heard from Since His Arrest Almost 17 Years Ago

Judiciary Claims No Knowledge of Student Not Heard from Since His Arrest Almost 17 Years Ago

January 6, 2016

The mother of a student who has not been heard from since soon after his arrest in Tehran in 1999 has dismissed the Iranian Judiciary’s claim that there was no evidence he was ever arrested. Saeed Zeinali was last seen by his family in 1999 when he ...

Untreated Kidney Stones Sends Imprisoned Physicist Omid Kokabee to Hospital

Untreated Kidney Stones Sends Imprisoned Physicist Omid Kokabee to Hospital

November 30, 2015

Imprisoned physicist Omid Kokabee was transferred to Taleghani Hospital in Tehran on November 24, 2015, suffering from severe kidney stones, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. For the past two months he had been in intense pain and suffering ...

Cartoon 130: Infiltration

Cartoon 130: Infiltration

November 30, 2015

Hardliners in Iran’s Parliament, Judiciary, and Revolutionary Guards are intensifying a broad crackdown on supporters of human rights and free elections, in a campaign underpinned by supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s assertion that the US seeks to “infiltrate” and undermine the Islamic Republic. This is cartoonist Touka ...

Washington Post OpEd: Free Omid Kokabee, another Iranian prisoner of conscience

Washington Post OpEd: Free Omid Kokabee, another Iranian prisoner of conscience

November 2, 2015

By Herbert L. Berk October 30 Herbert L. Berk is chairman of the American Physical Society’s Committee on International Freedom of Scientists. As the Iran nuclear deal has marched ...

Iran Should Allow UN Human Rights Expert into Country

Iran Should Allow UN Human Rights Expert into Country

October 29, 2015

International Community Should Pursue Human Rights with Same Commitment as the Nuclear Deal October 29, 2015—The international community should urge Iranian authorities to allow the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, into the country, said the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Impact ...

Teacher to Begin Prison Sentence for Her Work at Baha’i University

Teacher to Begin Prison Sentence for Her Work at Baha’i University

October 19, 2015

Azita Rafizadeh and her family Azita Rafizadeh, a Baha’i citizen and instructor at the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) online university, must report to prison on October 24, 2015, to begin serving her four-year ...

Rouhani and Undelivered Promises (Video)

Rouhani and Undelivered Promises (Video)

September 23, 2015

When Rouhani campaigned for the presidency in June 2013, he said he had “the key” to solve Iran’s problems. Those problems included hundreds of political prisoners in Iran, some dating back to the disputed 2009 presidential election. More than two years later, the prisoners remain behind bars, the three Green ...

Message to Rouhani: Rights Crisis in Iran Must Finally Be Addressed

September 22, 2015

Hassan Rouhani addresses the UN General Assembly in New York, 2014. September 22, 2015—When Iranian president Hassan Rouhani addresses the United Nations General Assembly on September 28, 2015, his third ...

Artist Goes on Hunger Strike to Protest Prison Staff Verbal Abuse

Artist Goes on Hunger Strike to Protest Prison Staff Verbal Abuse

September 18, 2015

Atena Faraghdani, Artist and Civil Activist The artist and civil activist Atena Faraghdani, behind bars since January 10, 2015, went on a hunger strike in Evin Prison to protest continuous verbal abuse by prison ...

Over 40,000 Girls under Age 15 Married Each Year in Iran

Over 40,000 Girls under Age 15 Married Each Year in Iran

September 4, 2015

Official Iranian government statistics show that tens of thousands of girls under the age of 15 are married off by their families each year in Iran. The numbers may actually even be quite higher. Many families in Iran do not register underage marriages, or do so illegally, ...

Keeping Activist Bahareh Hedayat in Prison is Against the Law Says Legal Expert

Keeping Activist Bahareh Hedayat in Prison is Against the Law Says Legal Expert

September 4, 2015

Political motivations are taking precedence over the law when it comes to activists such as Bahareh Hedayat, who is being kept in prison despite the completion of her sentence, legal expert Mohammad Oliaei-Fard told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “The fact is that the ...

Cartoon 122: Two More Years for Bahareh

Cartoon 122: Two More Years for Bahareh

September 4, 2015

The student and women’s rights activist Bahareh Hedayat, imprisoned for over five years in Iran, has been given an additional two-year prison sentence, days after receiving release orders from an Appeals Court in Tehran. This is cartoonist Touka Neyestani's take on the issue....

Former Tehran Prosecutor Acquitted of Charges in Kahrizak Murders despite Overwhelming Evidence

Former Tehran Prosecutor Acquitted of Charges in Kahrizak Murders despite Overwhelming Evidence

August 24, 2015

Saeed Mortazavi, The former Tehran Prosecutor Mortazavi Verdict Shows Officials Still Enjoy Impunity even in Cases of Torture and Death of Prisoners. The former Tehran Prosecutor, Saeed Mortazavi, was acquitted on August 19, 2015, on charges connected ...

Imprisoned Human Rights Defender Abdolfattah Soltani Denied Visitation with His Wife

August 17, 2015

Abdolfattah Soltani, human rights lawyer. Evin Prison authorities have prevented Massoumeh Dehghan from visiting her husband, the imprisoned human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani, a source close to the family told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Dehghan went to ...

Ailing Student Activist’s Continued Detention Violates Iran’s Own Laws

Ailing Student Activist’s Continued Detention Violates Iran’s Own Laws

August 13, 2015

Bahareh Hedayat’s Continued Detention Violates Iran’s Own Laws Prominent student activist Bahareh Hedayat should have been released by the end of July 2015 with the completion of more than five years in prison ...

Rezaian and Other Iranian-American Prisoners Held on Sham Charges Should be Released

August 10, 2015

Three Iranian-American prisoners, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, Jason Rezaian, and Saeed Abedini. August 10, 2015— The Rouhani administration should immediately secure the release of three Iranian-American prisoners, Jason Rezaian, Saeed ...

Pursue Human Rights in Iran with the Same Vigor as the Nuclear Accord

July 20, 2015

By Hadi Ghaemi  Lobelog.com- The nuclear accord reached this week between Iran and the P5+1 countries represents a resounding victory for diplomacy and peace. It was achieved only through unrelenting determination borne from a realization that the benefits of an accord far outweighed those of any ...

Baha’i Art Teacher Arrested in Front of His Students, No Charges Announced

Baha’i Art Teacher Arrested in Front of His Students, No Charges Announced

July 8, 2015

The Baha’i artist Shahriar Siroos was arrested by Intelligence Ministry agents on June 30 in Tehran and is being held at Evin Prison but the charges against him are not yet clear, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Siroos, 46, is a painter, married and ...

Campaign’s Five in the Afternoon Wins Major International Radio Award

Campaign’s Five in the Afternoon Wins Major International Radio Award

June 23, 2015

Human Rights Show Takes Silver Trophy at Prestigious NY Festival’s World’s Best Radio Programs Awards June 23, 2015—The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran’s weekly radio show, Five in the Afternoon, won a Silver Medal at the celebrated New York Festival International Radio Program Awards on ...

Cartoon 116: Nuclear Inspections and Human Rights

Cartoon 116: Nuclear Inspections and Human Rights

June 10, 2015

One of the conditions set for reaching a nuclear deal between the 5+1 countries and Iran is inspection of some of Iran's military facilities, an issue that has heightened sensitivity and opposition to a possible agreement inside Iran. This is Touka Neyestani's view into how the ...

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