Massoumeh Dehghan, wife of prominent human rights defender Abdolfattah Soltani, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that neither her husband’s nor the family’s rights have been respected since his imprisonment almost eight months ago. Dehghan told the ...
On 3 April, authorities sentenced Mansoureh Behkish, a supporter of the Mourning Mothers, to 4.5 years in prison for “propagating against the regime” and “assembly and collusion against national security.” Speaking with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, ...
“For Kurdistan: The Soraya Fallah Story,” from the Angels of Iran series, profiles Iranian-Kurdish human rights activist and researcher Soraya Fallah and her daughter Cklara Moradian. Soraya was imprisoned four times and tortured so severely that she miscarried in solitary ...
For most of us, listening to any music that we want is just a way of life. But in Iran, musicians face censorship and Iranians cannot listen to anything they want. In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast, we talk to ...
“Mr. Seifzadeh will not appear at this court session again for the same reason as before–he does not recognize the Revolutionary Court as qualified to review this case. He believes he should be tried in the Tehran Province Criminal Court, ...
Prominent human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh was deprived of furlough and telephone contact with her family during the Persian New Year, her husband Reza Khandan told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran in an interview. “Unfortunately, after two ...
Narges Mohammadi, the deputy director of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) who was sentenced to six years in prison on 5 March by an appeals court, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she ...
Mohammad Davari, former editor-in-chief of Saham News website, has developed acute psychological illness in prison and is in critical condition, his brother Bijan Davari told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran in an interview. “Mohammad is not well ...
A source close to Habibollah Golparipour, a Kurdish political prisoner on death row, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his family is concerned about his imminent execution. “Yesterday, 15 March [2012], the prison guards called him ...
Imprisoned teacher Abdolreza Ghanbari’s pardon request has been denied by the Pardon Commission of Tehran Province Judiciary, a source close to his family told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. With the rejection of his pardon request, once ...
Iranian Delegate Responds Angrily Without Addressing Report's Content Head of Iran's ...
A Tehran Appeals Court upheld the six-month prison sentence for Faezeh Hashemi, former Member of Parliament and editor-in-chief of the banned newspaper Zan, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. In addition to her prison sentence, ...
Branch 26 of Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced lawyer and co-founder of Center for Human Rights Defenders Abdolfattah Soltani to 18 years in Borazjan Prison and a 20-year ban on his legal practice yesterday. Massoumeh Dehghan, Abdolfattah Soltani’s wife, confirmed the ...
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has released a short video highlighting the plight of Iranian cinema. The video, “Iranian Cinema Under Siege” features Richard Peña, the director of the New York Film Festival, and Hamid Dabashi, professor ...
Imprisoned Kurdish activist Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand is in critical condition after embarking on a hunger strike over two weeks ago, his wife told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...
Most of us remember President Ahmadinejad’s infamous 2007 comment that homosexuals do not exist in Iran. In this Weekly Rights Podcast, we talk to Hossein Alizadeh, the Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator for the International Gay and Lesbian ...
At a moment when millions of people — including many Iranians — were watching to see what Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi would say in his Oscar acceptance speech, Farhadi chose to talk about the concerns of the Iranian people and ...
Iran’s new penal code was finally approved by the Guardian Council, a body of clerics and lawyers in charge of approving legislation, in February 2012. Once the new penal code is signed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and published in the ...
Branch One of Sanandaj Revolutionary Court sentenced Shirzad Karimi, a Kurdish university student and a member of the Kurdish Students Democratic Union, to four years in prison, suspended for three years, on charges of “propagating against the state,” a local ...
Three months after the arrest of Massoud Sepehr, his wife told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that it is still not clear why he was arrested. Sepehr is a Political Science lecturer at Shiraz Azad University who ...
Two of the four Kurdish brothers security forces arrested 14 months ago in Boukan and Mahabad have received death sentences on charges of “moharebeh” (enmity with God), a local human rights source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in ...
An Iranian court has upheld the death sentence for Zanyar Moradi, who was previously convicted of murdering the son ...
(8 February 2012) Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, should immediately release the three opposition leaders who have spent the last year under illegal house arrest and stop using extrajudicial and inhumane methods to silence political opponents, the International Campaign ...
Prison authorities returned imprisoned blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki to Evin Prison only two days after his kidney operation, despite his physician’s orders for medical furlough. Ronaghi’s mother told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that this is the ...
What does the recent increase in the arrests of journalists in Iran have to do with the upcoming parliamentary elections in Iran? Mehrad Vaezinejad, a Middle East analyst based in London, explains that the two are actually related. We also ...