A source close to the family of imprisoned student Maryam Shafipour, who was just sentenced to seven years in prison, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Shafipour received the heavy sentence on strange and irrational charges ...
Loghman Moradi was due to appear at Branch 74 of Tehran Province Criminal Court on February 23. That morning agents told him to put on prison clothes in order to be transferred to court. “Loqhman refused to wear prison clothes ...
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretariat has filed a lawsuit against a conservative journalist for “acting against the resolutions of the Council,” after he published four articles in a Tehran newspaper sharply criticizing Hassan Rouhani’s foreign policy and the Geneva ...
A petition addressed to Hassan Rouhani, president of Iran and head of its Supreme Security Council, requesting the release of Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi, and Zahra Rahnavard from house arrest has gathered more than 13,000 signatures since its online ...
In an interview with Dana Website, Mohammad Reza Touyserkani, the representative of the Supreme Leader inside the IRGC’s Basij paramilitary organization, spoke of “special battalions” that have been formed inside the Basij to suppress civil and street protests. ...
The independent centrist daily was shut down only after five days and yet its professional style had already created a refreshing buzz in the highly-controlled Iranian media market. The official reason for the shut-down is an article which described the ...
The Iranian Judiciary must rescind the execution sentence of Rouhollah Tavana for trumped-up charges of “insulting the Prophet,” and stop issuing death sentences for ever-expanding categories of crimes, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...
Two Iranian officials made new statements about the judicial aspects of the continued house arrest of government critics Mir Hossein Mousavi, Zahra Rahnavard, and Mehdi Karroubi today. ...
The abduction of five Iranian border guards by a violent political group in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan Province last week is growing beyond Iran’s borders into an international issue. ...
In a new interview with the Islamic Republic of Iran New Agency (IRNA), Kayvan Khosravi, the Spokesperson for the Supreme National Security Council Secretariat, announced that henceforth the Secretariat office will be the only source for publishing information pertaining to ...
February 14, 2014, marked three years since Mehdi Karroubi, Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Zahra Rahnavard were placed under a de facto and illegal house arrest in Tehran. ...
The Iranian government must end the inhumane practice of holding its critics under house arrest for years without due process, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. February 14, 2014, marks three years since Mehdi Karroubi, Mir ...
Iran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Mahmoud Vaezi, said again this week that he is a proud Facebook user. “I have been a member and I’m pretty involved [with Facebook]. I keep posting things and I always use the ...
On November 26, 2013, President Rouhani’s government published a draft Citizens’ Rights Charter and solicited public reaction. The publication of this draft within the first 100 days of his presidency was widely seen as a major step by his administration ...
After months of efforts by human rights and Internet freedom activists to revoke sanctions related to personal financial transactions to purchase Internet equipment and services, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has responded positively by issuing a General ...
At a February 4 speech at a gathering of university chancellors and heads of educational and research centers, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani asked the Iranian academic world, “Why is the university silent?” Political Activist Mohammad Maleki responds in an open ...
Iran’s Minister of Health and Medical Education said yesterday that a committee has been formed to review the the health effects of satellite jamming signals on the Iranian people’s health, following a request from President Rouhani. In an exclusive interview ...
Ali Younesi, former Intelligence Minister and President Hassan Rouhani's Advisor on ...
New concerns about the safety of Internet communications have emerged following statements by Iranian authorities about the government’s utilization of new, more complex, and undetectable filtering methods. The new methods used by government organizations not only limit access to Internet ...
A new case with a new charge has been established at the Penal Court against Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi, two Kurdish prisoners sentenced to death on “moharebeh (enmity with God)” charges, Zanyar Moradi’s father told the International Campaign for ...
In an action labor leaders are calling “illegal,” security forces have arrested over 20 workers of the Chadormalu Mine in the central province of Yazd, including the head and the secretary of the labor union, who stopped work as part ...
Just weeks before the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran is scheduled to present his latest report at the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, the Head of the Iranian Judiciary Sadegh Larijani is again verbally ...
This new book of editorial cartoons by leading Iranian artist Touka Neyestani chronicles one year of human rights issues in Iran. ...
Iran has established a secretariat for the Committee for the Return of Expat Iranians, inside Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, the Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary, and Iranian Expatriate Affairs Hassan Qashqavi said in an interview with Tadbir News Website. “The ...
The daughter of imprisoned Iranian lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani, who is serving a 13-year prison sentence, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that if the new Islamic Penal Code is implemented, her father will be eligible for release, ...