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Unfair Trials

Sattar Beheshti Murder Case Closed

Sattar Beheshti Murder Case Closed

December 6, 2013

A Tehran court has closed the case against the interrogator accused of murdering blogger Sattar Beheshti, determining it was not murder but rather “quasi-murder.” Gohar Eshghi, Beheshti’s mother, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she is protesting the court’s decision to dismiss the murder charges in the case of her son’s ...

Kurdish Sunni Prisoners in Critical Health After 30 Days on Hunger Strike

Kurdish Sunni Prisoners in Critical Health After 30 Days on Hunger Strike

December 5, 2013

Six Kurdish Sunni prisoners on death rowat Ghezel Hessar Prison in Karaj have been on a hunger strike since Monday, November 4, a human rights activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Hamed Ahmadi, Kamal Molaei, Jamshid Dehghnai, Jahangir Dehghani, Seyed Hadi Hossein, and Seddigh Mohammadi, all being kept in Unit 3 ...

Police Commander and Former Detainee Divulge Details About Kahrizak

Police Commander and Former Detainee Divulge Details About Kahrizak

November 22, 2013

In a November 18 interview with semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Iran’s Police Commander Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam shared unprecedented insights into several different human rights issues that over the past few years have faced the Iranian authorities, and specifically the Iranian police. ...

UN Shows Strong Support for Human Rights in Iran with 83-to-36 Vote

UN Shows Strong Support for Human Rights in Iran with 83-to-36 Vote

November 19, 2013

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes the United Nations General Assembly’s Third Committee vote today overwhelmingly supporting human rights in Iran, and urges the Iranian government to comply with UN human rights mechanisms and take concrete steps to address the ongoing violations in the country. ...

25 NGOs Urge UN Third Committee to Pass Iran Human Rights Resolution

25 NGOs Urge UN Third Committee to Pass Iran Human Rights Resolution

November 15, 2013

As the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee prepares to vote on the resolution on the promotion and protection of human rights in Iran, 25 human rights organizations have joined together to urge member states to vote in favor of the resolution. ...

Cartoon 67: House Arrest: 1,000 Days

Cartoon 67: House Arrest: 1,000 Days

November 12, 2013

On November 12, 2013, opposition figures and 2009 presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Mousavi’s wife Zahra Rahnavard, an author and political activist, will have spent 1,000 days under house arrest or detention without charge or trial. No governmental agency or body has expressly accepted responsibility for the opposition figures’ detention or ...

1,000 Days Under House Arrest

1,000 Days Under House Arrest

November 12, 2013

Three major opposition figures in Iran have been under house arrest or detention for 1,000 days with no charges against them, notwithstanding President Hassan Rouhani’s promise to release political prisoners, Human Rights Watch and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

Executed Prisoner Did Not Know He Would Be Hanged Until He Saw the Gallows

Executed Prisoner Did Not Know He Would Be Hanged Until He Saw the Gallows

November 6, 2013

“Until the moment he was transferred to the enclosed visitation hall, Shirkoo Moarefi did not know that his death sentence was going to be enforced. He only realized he was about to be hanged when he saw the gallows,” a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Iran Executed Another Kurdish Political Prisoner Without Alerting Family or Lawyers

Iran Executed Another Kurdish Political Prisoner Without Alerting Family or Lawyers

November 4, 2013

Ahmad Saeed Sheikhi, one of the lawyers representing Shirkoo Moarefi, a Kurdish prisoner who was executed November 4, confirmed news of his execution and told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “I learned about my client’s execution from news websites. I tried to contact his family many times and I was finally able ...

Cartoon 63: “Prevent the Murder of an Innocent Man”

Cartoon 63: “Prevent the Murder of an Innocent Man”

October 28, 2013

“I ask all judicial and legal officials in Iran and abroad, as well as officials of human rights organizations inside and abroad, to pursue this subject [my case] in the region in order to prevent the murder of an innocent man. I hope for a day when we would not witness executions in Kurdistan and ...

Executed Prisoner Habibollah Golparipour Asked Judicial and Human Rights Officials to Stop His Execution (Audio)

Executed Prisoner Habibollah Golparipour Asked Judicial and Human Rights Officials to Stop His Execution (Audio)

October 28, 2013

Iranian authorities executed Kurdish political prisoner Habibollah Golparipour on October 26 without conducting any independent investigation into claims of torture, his family learned later that day. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has obtained an audio recording of a letter Golparipour wrote a few weeks before his execution pleading for an investigation and ...

Repression Intensifies Despite Rouhani’s Promises

October 28, 2013

The Iranian Judiciary should immediately halt its new wave of repression of the media and civil society and stop its numerous rushed executions, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

Kurdistan Authorities Push to Execute Two Kurdish Political Prisoners

Kurdistan Authorities Push to Execute Two Kurdish Political Prisoners

October 24, 2013

Zanyar Moradi (right) and Loghman Moradi (left)The Kurdistan Province judicial and security officials have launched an effort in recent days to enforce the confirmed death sentences of two Kurdish prisoners of conscience, Zanyar and Loghman Moradi, who ...

Lab Tests Show Karroubi’s Health Seriously Deteriorating Under House Arrest

Lab Tests Show Karroubi’s Health Seriously Deteriorating Under House Arrest

October 22, 2013

Political dissident and 2009 presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who has been under extrajudicial house arrest since February 2011, is suffering from an alarmingly low level of vitamin D and osteoporosis, according to pathology laboratory test results the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has obtained. Considering his unfavorable health conditions, continuing his detention will ...

XIII International Human Rights Colloquium

XIII International Human Rights Colloquium

October 18, 2013

Over 100 human rights advocates from 40 countries are convening in São Paulo, Brazi, from October 12 to 19, to discuss “A New Global Order in Human Rights? Actors, Challenges and Opportunities” at the 13th International Human Rights Colloquium organized by Conectas Human Rights. This post will be updated regularly throughout the conference. ...

Christian Pastor’s Wife: Obama Asked Rouhani To Release My Husband

Christian Pastor’s Wife: Obama Asked Rouhani To Release My Husband

October 17, 2013

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, the wife of Iranian-American pastor Saeed Abedini who has been sentenced to eight years in prison, said that during the September 27 telephone conversation between Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani, the release of her husband was discussed. “Although a few weeks have passed ...

Mostafa Tajzadeh Faces New Charges in Prison

Mostafa Tajzadeh Faces New Charges in Prison

October 17, 2013

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Fakhrolsadat Mohtashamipour, wife of Mostafa Tajzadeh, prisoner of conscience and political activist, said that a new case has been opened and a new indictment issued for her husband, the content of which is as yet unknown to them. Fakhrolsadat Mohtashamipour said that the ...

Sattar Beheshti’s Mother: All Efforts Focused on Protecting Murderer

Sattar Beheshti’s Mother: All Efforts Focused on Protecting Murderer

October 10, 2013

Sattar Beheshti’s mother told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the indictment issued for her son’s prison death case for “quasi-intentional murder” was unexpected. “We’re really disappointed with the indictment. Up until the time the indictment was issued, every time we saw Mr. Shahriari, the case’s Investigative Judge, in the meetings he ...

Iran Should Halt Executions as Rate of Hangings Accelerates

Iran Should Halt Executions as Rate of Hangings Accelerates

October 8, 2013

The Iranian authorities should impose an immediate moratorium on executions in Iran given the alarming rise in the use of the death penalty in recent weeks, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center said today. ...

Soltani’s Wife Sentenced for Accepting Human Rights Award on his Behalf

Soltani’s Wife Sentenced for Accepting Human Rights Award on his Behalf

October 7, 2013

Massoumeh Dehghan, who has never had any political activities, was arrested and detained for six days in July 2011 on charges of traveling to Germany and receiving the Nuremberg Human Rights Award on behalf of her husband. Massoumeh ...

Judge Claims Baha’i’s Death Was Suicide, Not Murder

Judge Claims Baha’i’s Death Was Suicide, Not Murder

October 4, 2013

Ataollah Rezvani, 52, was killed by a gunshot to the back of the head in his car on August 24. He was an active member of the Bandar Abbas ...

Journalist Issa Saharkhiz Released Two Months Prior to End of Sentence

Journalist Issa Saharkhiz Released Two Months Prior to End of Sentence

October 3, 2013

Imprisoned Iranian journalist, Issa Saharkhiz, was released on Thursday, October 3, only two months short of completing his prison sentence. “I was informed by my family that my father received his release letter sy the hospital. They will now have to complete his paperwork in order to take him home from the hospital,” his son, ...

Court Finalizes Six-year Sentence for Writing a Letter to Mohammad Khatami

Court Finalizes Six-year Sentence for Writing a Letter to Mohammad Khatami

October 2, 2013

Imprisoned lawyer Mohammad Seifzadeh appeared in court to defend himself against charges of “collusion and assembly against national security,” he wrote in a letter published September 29 on Kaleme website. Though judicial officials had told his family they planned on closing the case against him if he appeared in court, Seifzadeh wrote, the court appearance ...

Nasrin Sotoudeh, an hour after release: “They told me, ‘You are free.’ Other prisoners and lawyers should be released, too”

Nasrin Sotoudeh, an hour after release: “They told me, ‘You are free.’ Other prisoners and lawyers should be released, too”

September 18, 2013

An hour after her release from prison, human rights lawyer and prisoner of conscience Nasrin Sotoudeh told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “When they took me out of the prison, they told me, ‘You are free.’ Last night they told four others. They told me that my furlough was approved, but when ...

Iran’s New Security Council Secretary Should End Illegal House Arrests

Iran’s New Security Council Secretary Should End Illegal House Arrests

September 13, 2013

The newly appointed Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, should immediately review the situation of the opposition leaders under house arrest and prepare for their release, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

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