RECOMMENDATIONS To the Human Rights Council and UN Member States: Support and renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for human rights in Iran. Urge Iran to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur and with human rights mechanisms. Call on Iran to ...

The Deteriorating Human Rights Situation in Iran Requires a Special Rapporteur Iranian authorities increasingly disregard human rights standards, arbitrarily imprisoning human rights defenders, journalists, political activists, and trade unionists. The number of executions has skyrocketed. Officials routinely use torture to extract false confessions, and a deeply ...

Almost three years since the disputed presidential elections of 2009, the situation of human rights in Iran continues to deteriorate. In March 2011, increased international concern about Iran’s human rights crisis led to the creation of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights ...

Kambiz Nowrouzi | Lawyer Nowruzi, a lawyer, was the legal secretary of the Iranian Press Association until it ...

Mahmoud Dowlatabadi | Author Born in 1940, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi is among the most celebrated authors in Iran. His works include the ten-volume epic “Kalidar,” “Ja-ye Khali-ye Solooch,” and ...

This section features the extended comments and biographies of the 35 individuals interviewed for this report. Their views on the ramifications of a military strike against Iran are shaped by their personal and professional experiences with the Iran-Iraq war and Iran’s history of political turmoil. ...

The results of this survey of diverse Iranian civil society actors show a strong consensus against a military attack on Iran, which from their perspectives would drag further down the human rights situation, the level of human security, and prospects for positive change toward freedom, ...

Rejecting Human Rights and Democracy Rationales Some who have threatened a military strike against Iran suggest that the Islamic Republic’s dismal human rights record and anti-democratic polices justify a more interventionist response by the United States. For example, US Senator Joseph Lieberman told the ...

State Consolidation and Public Attitudes Toward the United States Some of the strongest proponents of a military strike on Iran have maintained that a US bombing campaign would be welcomed by some segments of Iranian society. Moreover, these analysts and policymakers have called for ...

This section of the report extracts the dominant concerns of most of the interviewees, distilling their recurring and most notable conclusions. Many of the insights and analytical points offered by the individuals surveyed in this report are consistent with and support arguments against military action that ...

Between January and June 2011, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (“the Campaign”) interviewed 35 members of Iranian civil society. This time period was approximately two years into a wave of civil and political repression that followed the disputed 2009 presidential election. The Campaign ...

For nearly a decade, United States (US) policymakers and analysts have been debating whether military action against Iran, particularly in response to its nuclear program, would be legal, necessary and feasible. Currently, it seems that most US officials have concluded that use of military force ...

Since 2002, the possibility of armed conflict between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran has been a constant refrain in the complex and contentious relationship between the two states. Threats of military force and overt calls for an attack on Iran by ...

Iranian society has experienced much political and economic upheaval since the 1979 Revolution. Most of these developments have been accompanied with widespread violence, bloodshed, and civilian deaths, including post-revolutionary assassinations and mass-executions of dissidents, the eight-year long Iran-Iraq war, and massive internal repression that escalated ...

Watch Sun News' interview with Hadi Ghaemi of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran regarding the case of Dorothy Parvaz (click image to redirect to sunnewsnetwork.ca) ...

1. Abdolreza Ali-Haghnejad (Pastor of Bander Anzali church)           --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Anahita Khademi (Pastor Ali-Haghnejad's wife )         --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Mahmoud Khosh-Hal ...

We, the undersigned independent human rights organizations, take the liberty to appeal to members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to support a Resolution in the United Nations Human Rights Council that will establish a human rights monitoring mechanism for the Islamic Republic ...

The claim about expelling of some of these students is… Limitations against some of these Baha’i university students have nothing to do with their religious beliefs. This limitation is because they have failed to meet the entrance requirements to the university and the fact that ...

Authorities have detained hundreds of members Shia sufi order, Nematollahi Gonabadi over the past few years, sentencing many to imprisonment, fines, and floggings including Gholam-Abbas Zare-Haqiqi,who authorities sentenced to four years in prison in October 2009, for allowing a burial at Sufi cemeteries, a banned ...

On 27 August 2010, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination urged the Iranian government to bring its domestic laws into full conformity with the CERD Convention on racial discrimination, particularly with regards to the definition of racial discrimination in the Constitution. ...

Despite Larijani’s assertions, authorities routinely suppress free speech, undermine press freedom, and punish public criticism of the government and high-ranking state officials. Dozens of newspapers and websites have been banned and scores of Iranian journalists and bloggers have been arrested since June 2009, mostly after ...

Mass Post-Election Detainees Nobody is jailed because of the protest. The only reason for jailing is the violence which was attached with the protests, a violence which got the life of more than 20 policemen and 13 civilians and, also, damage to ...