“My Father Was Charged With Helping The Baha’i University”
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Naim Sobhani, son of Riaz Sobhani, an Iranian Baha’i imprisoned at Evin Prison for the past four months… ...
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December 3, 2010
Background
After three decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s human rights record has generated notable concern amongst United Nations human rights bodies, international NGOs, foreign governments including Iran’s diplomatic partners, and… ...
December 3, 2010
Regulatory Framework for Denial of Education
Next Section: International Law Back to table of contents University Admission and Entrance Exams Iranians who want to attend a government university program (at the undergraduate or graduate level) must… ...
September 14, 2010
A Brief Summary of Major Human Rights Violations in Iran
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… ...
April 22, 2010
No to Iran on the Human Rights Council!
Oped in the Daily Star of Lebanon by Ali Akbar Mousavi against inclusion of Iran on the HRC…. ...
March 21, 2010
Two more Mazandaran students receive prison sentences/Three students in murderers’ ward
…months in prison. His charge has been stated as “propagating Bahai faith,” and he had previously served 80 days in solitary confinement in Ministry of Information’s Sari detention center. During… ...
March 8, 2010
Interview: Details of Bahai Students’ Deprivation of Education and Imprisonment of Right to Education Committee Members
…in Geneva in which he said no Bahai has been arrested or deprived from education or social rights on grounds of his Bahai faith, he and one of his friends… ...
February 13, 2010
Asylum in Turkey: Futile Hopes and Dreams?
Continuing with our series of reports and interviews with Iranian asylum seekers who have left Iran after the June 12 presidential elections, an Iranian journalist who is awaiting UN’s decision… ...
January 7, 2010
Fear of Imminent Executions of Baha’is
…confronted by the specter of Bahai’s being executed, this time on charges trumped up in the context of current widespread political unrest,” said Aaron Rhodes, a spokesperson for the Campaign…. ...
August 26, 2008
Threats Against Nobel Peace Laureate Escalate
(26 August 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expressed serious concerns for the health and safety of Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate, following increasing threats… ...
June 6, 2008
Groups Urge Iran to Cooperate with UN Rights Bodies
(Geneva, 6 June 2008) – The Iranian government should cooperate with United Nations human rights bodies in order to address the ongoing human rights abuses in the country, a group… ...