Message to Rouhani: Rights Crisis in Iran Must Finally Be Addressed
Hassan Rouhani addresses the UN General Assembly in New York, 2014. September 22, 2015—When Iranian president Hassan Rouhani addresses the ...
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Artist Goes on Hunger Strike to Protest Prison Staff Verbal Abuse
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 ...
Over 40,000 Girls under Age 15 Married Each Year in Iran
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 ...
Keeping Activist Bahareh Hedayat in Prison is Against the Law Says Legal Expert
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 ...
Cartoon 122: Two More Years for Bahareh
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. ...
Former Tehran Prosecutor Acquitted of Charges in Kahrizak Murders despite Overwhelming Evidence
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 ...
Imprisoned Human Rights Defender Abdolfattah Soltani Denied Visitation with His Wife
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 ...
Ailing Student Activist’s Continued Detention Violates Iran’s Own Laws
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 ...
Rezaian and Other Iranian-American Prisoners Held on Sham Charges Should be Released
Three Iranian-American prisoners, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, Jason Rezaian, and Saeed Abedini. August 10, 2015— The Rouhani administration should immediately ...
Pursue Human Rights in Iran with the Same Vigor as the Nuclear Accord
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 ...
Baha’i Art Teacher Arrested in Front of His Students, No Charges Announced
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, ...
Campaign’s Five in the Afternoon Wins Major International Radio Award
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 ...
Cartoon 116: Nuclear Inspections and Human Rights
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 ...
Young Activist Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Facebook Postings and Peaceful Protest
A young civil activist who has been held at Evin Prison since October 2014 has been sentenced to seven years in prison at her interrogator's urging, a source close to the case told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, for her ...
Basij Militias Will Run 2000 Child Care Centers, 25% of All Day Care in Iran
Teaching Islamic Values Becomes Priority in Face of Flagging Public Support Iran's Welfare Organization will allow the Revolutionary Guard’s volunteer paramilitary arm, the Basij, to establish and operate 2,000 child care centers, which would comprise 25% ...
Police Demolish Imprisoned Baha’i Leader’s Ancestral Home
Iranian police demolished the home of an imprisoned Baha’i community leader in Semnan on April 22, 2015. The home belonged to Jamaloddin Khanjani, one of seven Baha’i leaders who have been in prison since 2008. ...
Initial Accord with Iran Holds Promise for Human Rights
But Risks of Hardline Backlash Remain The understanding reached on Iran’s nuclear program on April 2 is a welcome development, averting at least for now, an inexorable descent into confrontation, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. This initial agreement also presents renewed ...
UN Keeps Pressure on Iran for its Rights Failures
Human Rights Monitoring Will Continue March 27, 2015—The United Nations Human Rights Council voted today to renew the mandate of Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, signaling ...
Under scrutiny, Iran Shows Increased, but Limited Cooperation with UN Mechanism
Four years into his mandate as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed told UN member states at a meeting of the Human Rights Council today in Geneva that although he has yet to be let into the country for a site visit, ...
UN Secretary-General Expresses Alarm about Executions, Retaliation Against Activists and Attacks on Women in Iran
In particular the Secretary-General voiced his concern about Iran’s chronic application of the death penalty to drug-related offenses, which do not qualify as the “most serious crimes”; the number of death penalty cases with a political dimension; the high incidence of public executions; and the execution of juveniles. ...
Omid Kokabee, in Letter from Prison, Accepts Prestigious Science Award
An acceptance speech [Link to full letter] by Omid Kokabee, written from his prison cell in Iran, was delivered at the Award Ceremony for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2014 Freedom and Responsibly Award on February 13. ...
Young Scientist’s Ten-Year Sentence Upheld despite Supreme Court’s Rejection of Legality of His Case
An appeals court in Tehran has upheld the ten-year prison sentence of the young scientist Omid Kokabee without regard for the earlier opinion of the Supreme Court or the reasoning set forth in their ruling on the case. ...
161 PhD Students Demand Immediate Medical Attention and Judicial Review for Omid Kokabee
In a statement of solidarity with the imprisoned Iranian scientist Omid Kokabee, 161 doctoral students and graduates from universities around the world have released an open letter, demanding medical attention and due process for him. “We, a group of 161 Iranian PhD students and graduates, demand immediate medical attention to this Iranian scholar’s health situation, ...
Supreme Court Rejects Legality of Kokabee’s Sentencing
Iran’s Supreme Court has explicitly rejected the legal basis of Omid Kokabee’s prosecution and sentencing. Branch 36 of Iran’s Supreme Court ordered the review of Omid Kokabee’s case, according to a ruling it issued on October 11, 2014 and recently made public by his lawyer. ...
The Campaign’s 2014 UPR Pre-Session Statement
This statement by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran to the UN’s 2014 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Pre-Session on the Islamic Republic of Iran addresses the Government of Iran’s lack of implementation ...