Diane Sawyer of ABC’s ‘World News Tonight’ Interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad December 22, 2009 DIANE SAWYER: The three American hikers who say they accidentally wandered into Iranian territory while looking at waterfalls, Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, and Sarah Shourd. You said you were going to ...
Next: Iranian Officials’ Claims on Rights Issues: Myths vs. Facts Executions and Stoning Since last year’s disputed Presidential election, the Iranian government has instituted a hyped-up campaign of executions, virtually all of which have followed unfair trials. Amnesty International estimates that Iran executed ...
Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Larry King - CNN September 26, 2009 KING: Your country has, you’ve said, rather, that 40 million people participated in the June elections. Iran uses paper ballots. They’re hand counted. Yet the Interior Ministry announced the official results less than 24 hours ...
Katie Couric’s Interview with Ahmadinejad - CBS Evening News September 29, 2009 Couric: During and after the presidential election, Mr. President, thousands of opposition supporters and journalists were arrested, badly beaten, and tortured. One woman, 27 year old Neda, as you know, was shot to ...
Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Channel 4 of England’s December 23, 2009 JON SNOW: There have been disturbances there has been awful scenes of violence on the streets and that has disturbed people inside and outside Iran. That makes it difficult to extend hand doesn’t it? AHMADINEJAD: We ...
Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Kim Bildsoe of Dutch TV January 8, 2010 KIM BILDSOE: There has been protestors on the street, some have called them also lately, traitors, that they don’t understand Iran. Do you think that the young people on the street, making trouble some ...
Ahmadinejad Interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s 'Good Morning America' May 4, 2010 They first spoke about relations between Obama, Secretary Clinton, and Iran and the nuclear issue. This portion was about the American hikers: STEPHANOPOULOS: Three American hikers have been imprisoned in Iran ...
Next: Appendix: Iranian Officials’ Replies to Human Rights Oriented Questions in Previous Interviews Reviewed by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran Back ...
Next: Interviewers and Human Rights Issues Discussed Back to Page 1 of Suggested Questions 8. Question on allegations of forced confessions Question: How do you respond to allegations by ...
Page 2 of Suggested Questions 1. Question on former Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi Question: Former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi has been indicted by a ...
Next: A Brief Summary of Major Human Rights Violations in Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s coming visit to New York, for the opening of the 65th session of the United Nations’ General Assembly, will be his second visit to this city since the disputed election of ...
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Next: Suggested Questions for President Ahmadinejad Quotes from Interviews “Iran is very free. It is the highest conceivable degree of freedom. We don’t have a party based system. It is a free government, very close to the people.” Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Kim Bildsoe of ...
Next: Interviewing Ahmadinejad Since 1984, the United Nations has expressed concern about human rights practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran through successive resolutions of the UN General Assembly and Commission on Human Rights. Iran has failed to abide by these UN resolutions to ...
Next: Notable Facts about Iran’s International Record and Cooperation on Human Rights Information in this section was compiled jointly with the Democracy Coalition Project ...
His spouse and brother in law detained Mohamad Mostafaei, the Iranian lawyer of Sakineh Ashtiani who is sentenced to death by stoning, has been in an undisclosed location since Saturday. He was questioned and later the same day was summoned to the infamous Evin prison, but ...
The Iranian authorities have accused the wife and the brother in law of Mohamed Mostafaei, the lawyer for the woman sentenced to stoning for adultery, of aiding him to flee. Authorities assured them that if the lawyer is handed to them they will be released, ...
Seven women and three men are sentenced to death for adultery Everyone has a date marked on their calendar, be it a birthday, wedding anniversary or even the beginning of the summer vacations. In Iran, there are about 170 people who cross out one day each ...
If an Iranian prosecutor has his way, a 43-year-old mother of two will soon be taken from her cell in Tabriz prison, wrapped in a white shroud, buried up ...
The campaign to save Sakineh Ashtiani puts the Tehran regime under pressure – Five people have been executed for adultery since 2002, despite the treaty with EU Sakineh Ashtiani -a 43 years old Iranian woman- is accused of adultery. Her life hangs in the balance. Although ...
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Iran’s government has begun to remove academics who oppose the authoritarian regime of President Mahmoud Ahmedinijad, according to human-rights activists in the country. Activists say that the dismissal this month of two electrical engineering professors at the Iran University of Science and Technology in Tehran ...
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Your Excellency, We are a diverse group of nongovernmental organizations from all parts of the world, working in the field of human rights. We write in opposition to the candidacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, ...
