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Unfair Trials

Nasrin Sotoudeh Ends 49-Day Hunger Strike After Daughter’s Travel Ban Lifted

Nasrin Sotoudeh Ends 49-Day Hunger Strike After Daughter’s Travel Ban Lifted

December 4, 2012

Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested on September 4, 2010. A lower court sentenced her to 11 years in prison, 20 years’ ban on her legal practice, and 20 years’ ban on foreign travel. An appeals court reduced her sentence to six years in prison and 10 years’ ban on her legal practice. ...

Iranian Government Denies Prisoner of Conscience Abdollah Momeni Family Visits

Iranian Government Denies Prisoner of Conscience Abdollah Momeni Family Visits

November 28, 2012

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, the wife of prisoner of conscience Abdollah Momeni said that she has been repeatedly denied visits to her husband who is imprisoned at Iran’s Evin Prison. “My children and I have not visited Abdollah for a year and a half, not even once,” ...

Sotoudeh’s Health Critical, Intelligence Says “Continue Hunger Strike to the End!”

Sotoudeh’s Health Critical, Intelligence Says “Continue Hunger Strike to the End!”

November 28, 2012

Imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has been on a hunger strike since October 17, told her husband that her health has deteriorated to the point where she is transferred to the prison infirmary every day. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, her husband Reza Khandan said, “The ...

UN Resolution Intensifies International Pressure on Iran

UN Resolution Intensifies International Pressure on Iran

November 27, 2012

(November 27, 2012) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes today’s passage of a resolution by the United Nations Third Committee of the General Assembly calling on the government of Iran to stop its massive human rights violations. ...

Family Forced to Sign Release in the Case of Prison Interrogation Death

Family Forced to Sign Release in the Case of Prison Interrogation Death

November 24, 2012

Gohar Eshghi, Sattar Beheshti’s mother, told the Campaign that she is requesting an in-person meeting with Sadeq Larijani, Head of the Iranian Judiciary, so that she may talk to him about the investigations into her son’s death. “I would like to ask Mr. Larijani and the Tehran Prosecutor to give me an appointment so that ...

Ahmad Zeidabadi Hospitalized After Six Months of Illness

Ahmad Zeidabadi Hospitalized After Six Months of Illness

November 23, 2012

“The cause of his illnesses has not yet been determined, but the initial diagnosis is that Ahmad is under psychological pressure and stress has led to these illnesses. He has been under stress in prison for 3.5 years, especially the first few months of his detention when he was under immense pressure, and the effects ...

Activist Abolfazl Tabarzadi Released from Detention Due to Severe Medical Condition

Activist Abolfazl Tabarzadi Released from Detention Due to Severe Medical Condition

November 23, 2012

Student and human rights activist Abdolfazl Tabarzadi has been released after six months of imprisonment in Karoon Prison, after the medical examiner and a judge determined he is medically unfit to serve his prison term. Suffering from severe psychological problems, Tabarzadi is currently being treated at his family home. His grandmother, Sakineh Zibaei, told the ...

Cartoon 33: Respect the Oath: “Keep Them from Harm and Injustice”

Cartoon 33: Respect the Oath: “Keep Them from Harm and Injustice”

November 23, 2012

Respect the Oath: "Keep Them from Harm and Injustice" After international outcry about the suspicious death of blogger Sattar Bahashti while in custody of the Iranian security forces, Iranian authorities launched an investigation into his cause of death. Shortly afterwards, the Iranian Judiciary’s Spokesperson ...

Nasrin Sotoudeh in Solitary Confinement, 18 Months Without a Phone Call

Nasrin Sotoudeh in Solitary Confinement, 18 Months Without a Phone Call

November 19, 2012

“When Nasrin launched her hunger strike, our visiting days had been confirmed for Sundays, along with the other women prisoners of conscience. As she is in solitary confinement, though, they say she is banned from having visitors,” Khandan told the Campaign. “But that is totally irrelevant—these 20 days of solitary confinement are going to be ...

Cartoon 32: Manipulating a Tragic Death in Prison

Cartoon 32: Manipulating a Tragic Death in Prison

November 17, 2012

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Sattar Beheshti’s Family Ask for Protection To Come Forward With Lawsuit Against Torture Culprits

Sattar Beheshti’s Family Ask for Protection To Come Forward With Lawsuit Against Torture Culprits

November 12, 2012

A source close to the family of Sattar Beheshti, a blogger whose family was informed of his death in custody on November 6, told the International Campaign that “If we know that we are supported by an organization and that our lives are safe and that they will not take us like Sattar to beat, ...

Iranian Judiciary’s High Council of Human Rights Reacts to Sattar Beheshti’s Prison Death

Iranian Judiciary’s High Council of Human Rights Reacts to Sattar Beheshti’s Prison Death

November 11, 2012

After several days of silence on the prison death of blogger Sattar Beheshti, the Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Council stated in a press release today, November 11, 2012, that by special order of Sadeq Larijani, Head of the Judiciary, “all aspects of the issue have come under careful review, and the Judiciary Spokesperson and other ...

Cartoon 31: Never-ending Death in Prisons

Cartoon 31: Never-ending Death in Prisons

November 11, 2012

Sattar Beheshti, 35, a laborer who criticzed the Iranian government for its oppressive policies in his blogs, was arrested on Tuesday, October 30. His arrest came after several warnings and summonses by Iran’s Cyber Police who had at one point threatened Beheshti that if he kept writing his critical blogs, they would “make his mother ...

Signs of Torture on Body of Deceased Blogger, Family Under Pressure to Keep Silent

Signs of Torture on Body of Deceased Blogger, Family Under Pressure to Keep Silent

November 9, 2012

A source close to the family of Sattar Behesthi, a blogger whose family was told on November 6 that he had died in a detention center, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the blogger’s family was threatened with arrest if they spoke with the media. The source told the Campaign that ...

Cartoon 30: Women Prisoners, Dignity and Hunger Strike

Cartoon 30: Women Prisoners, Dignity and Hunger Strike

November 9, 2012

On October 30, a group of female political prisoners inside Evin Prison’s Ward 350 embarked on a hunger strike to protest their inhumane treatment by Evin Prison authorities following a raid by prison authorities during which the prisoners were subjected to degrading treatment. The group ended their hunger strike on November 5, after prison authorities ...

Sakharov Prize-winner Sotoudeh’s Detention Highlights Denial of Basic Rights

Sakharov Prize-winner Sotoudeh’s Detention Highlights Denial of Basic Rights

October 31, 2012

(Paris, London, New York, October 31, 2012) Iran’s judiciary and prison authorities should end mistreatment of the prominent rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi and six human rights organizations said today. Ebadi and the rights groups also called on Iran’s authorities to allow all prisoners access to necessary medical care and ...

UN Special Rapporteur: Iran’s Reputation Worsens Every Day Journalists Spend in Jail

UN Special Rapporteur: Iran’s Reputation Worsens Every Day Journalists Spend in Jail

October 30, 2012

“For every day [journalists] spend in jail, Iran suffers a reputational problem somewhere in the world,” UN Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed said in an exclusive interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “I signify … a heightened sense of caring by the international community about the plight of people in Iran.” ...

Cartoon 29: Persevering Even in Prison

Cartoon 29: Persevering Even in Prison

October 29, 2012

Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent Iranian lawyer, has dedicated her life to fighting for human rights and defending prisoners of conscience in Iran. For her work, she was recently awarded the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. For her work, she is serving a six-year prison sentence on charges of “acting against national ...

Imprisoned Iranian Lawyer Awarded Sakharov Prize, Family Says She Is in Critical Condition

Imprisoned Iranian Lawyer Awarded Sakharov Prize, Family Says She Is in Critical Condition

October 26, 2012

The European Parliament today awarded its prestigious Sakharov Prize for human rights and freedom of thought to imprisoned Iranian lawyer and human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh and prominent filmmaker Jafar Panahi. Both awardees have been sentenced to long prison sentences in Iran and bans on travel and their careers because of their opposition to the ...

Student Activist’s Psychological Health Suffers at Evin

Student Activist’s Psychological Health Suffers at Evin

October 23, 2012

“Siavash has lost a lot of weight and does not have a good psychological state. He is 24. He was a graduate student when he was abruptly banned from continuing his education, and then he was imprisoned. The month-long solitary confinement, loneliness, his education ban, and his uncertain future have all made him depressed. He ...

Nasrin Sotoudeh to Continue Hunger Strike Until Daughter’s Travel Ban Lifted

Nasrin Sotoudeh to Continue Hunger Strike Until Daughter’s Travel Ban Lifted

October 23, 2012

Protesting her prison conditions, Nasrin Sotoudeh embarked on a wet hunger strike beginning on Wednesday, October 17. Iranian Judiciary officials have not yet reacted to Sotoudeh’s demands. Nasrin Sotoudeh is objecting to her 12-year-old daughter’s travel ban and summons to court, the authorities’ refusal to allow her visitation with her mother for the past year, ...

Cartoon (28): “No Political Prisoners in Iran”

Cartoon (28): “No Political Prisoners in Iran”

October 23, 2012

Earlier this year, in July, Javad Larijani stated, “There are no political prisoners inside the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Just last week, on October 17, Larijani’s brother Sadeq Larijani, Iran’s Head of Judiciary, claimed, “No one is executed in Iran for their political convictions.” ...

Iranian-American Amir Hekmati Languishes in Evin Prison, No Retrial in Sight

Iranian-American Amir Hekmati Languishes in Evin Prison, No Retrial in Sight

October 15, 2012

In the seven months since Iranian-American Amir Hekmati’s death sentence was overturned in Tehran, Iranian officials have ignored his family’s requests for information and has failed to schedule his retrial. Since his arrest, Hekmati’s father has been diagnosed with an aggressive and potentially fatal brain cancer and has been unable to travel to Iran to ...

Podcast 50: Interviewing Sarah Shourd About her Time in Prison

Podcast 50: Interviewing Sarah Shourd About her Time in Prison

October 1, 2012

Just over three years ago, three young Americans—Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal—were taken into custody by Iranian border guards while hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan. Though the young Americans’ case was widely believed to be political theater, Iranian authorities insisted they had illegally crossed over into Iranian territory in order to commit espionage; charges ...

After 19 Years in Prison, Political Prisoner Sews Lips and Starts Hunger Strike

After 19 Years in Prison, Political Prisoner Sews Lips and Starts Hunger Strike

September 17, 2012

“On Monday, August 27, Mohammad Nazari sent a letter to judicial authorities objecting to his conditions and stating that over the past several years, his family has pursued his case in the Revolutionary Courts in Mahabad and Orumiyeh and with the Supreme Leader’s Office, and each time they have been told that he would be ...

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