Security Forces Illegally Arrest Striking Workers
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… ...
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January 23, 2014
Ill Journalist Could Be Released from Prison Under New Penal Code
A source close to the family of imprisoned Iranian journalist Kayvan Samimi, 65, who has been hospitalized since November, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the… ...
January 17, 2014
Cartoon 76: Punishing Families
Imprisoned activist Bahareh Hedayat has been experiencing serious health issues that could potentially leave her sterile if left untreated, her husband told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran…. ...
January 17, 2014
Iran Should Release Imprisoned Activist for Urgent Medical Treatment
…her health, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The Judiciary and the Prisons Organization should also release the other activists still imprisoned for their peaceful protests… ...
January 6, 2014
Basij Commander Admits Forces Shot at 2009 Protesters
After more than four years of denying that Basij and other security forces took direct shots at the 2009 post-election protesters, last week’s statements by the unnamed Commander of District… ...
January 2, 2014
Officals and Clerics Verbally Attack and Threaten 2009 Protestors and Leaders
…opposition leaders. The 2009 protesters have been accused of “dancing” and “drinking” on the streets during the peaceful protests, which turned violent after government forces shot and killed several protesters…. ...
December 31, 2013
Prominent Activist Cites Numerous Omissions in Citizen Rights Charter
In a interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Narges Mohammadi, human rights activist and spokesperson for the Defenders of Human Rights Center, acknowledged that the Citizen… ...
December 5, 2013
Kurdish Sunni Prisoners in Critical Health After 30 Days on Hunger Strike
…Mohammadi, all being kept in Unit 3 of Hall 4, are hunger striking to protest their execution and the pressure and limitations imposed on them by officials, the activist said…. ...
November 22, 2013
Police Commander and Former Detainee Divulge Details About Kahrizak
In a November 18 interview with semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Iran’s Police Commander Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam shared unprecedented insights into several different human rights issues that over the… ...
November 6, 2013
Political Prisoners Embark on Hunger Strike on Behalf of Sick Prisoners
Abdolfattah Soltani, an imprisoned lawyer and human rights activist, embarked on a hunger strike together with three other political prisoners on November 2, his sixtieth birthday, to protest the conditions… ...
October 28, 2013
Executed Prisoner Habibollah Golparipour Asked Judicial and Human Rights Officials to Stop His Execution (Audio)
Iranian authorities executed Kurdish political prisoner Habibollah Golparipour on October 26 without conducting any independent investigation into claims of torture, his family learned later that day. The International Campaign for… ...
October 8, 2013
Rouhani Cabinet Sends Mixed Messages About Facebook and Twitter
Just a few hours after the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported that Iran’s Minister of Communications Mahmoud Vaezi told reporters today that Facebook and Twitter will remain blocked in… ...
September 18, 2013
Nasrin Sotoudeh, an hour after release: “They told me, ‘You are free.’ Other prisoners and lawyers should be released, too”
An hour after her release from prison, human rights lawyer and prisoner of conscience Nasrin Sotoudeh told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “When they took me out… ...
September 18, 2013
Starred Students Face Reprieve
Iran’s Ministry of Science announced yesterday that Iran’s most recent “starred students” can enroll in universities. “Starred students” are university students who, over the past eight years, were banned from… ...
September 3, 2013
Imprisoned Blogger Continues Hunger Strike; Father Writes to President and Supreme Leader
Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, a prisoner of conscience on hunger strike in protest of his prison conditions since August 9, was transferred to Shahid Modarres Hospital on Wednesday, August 28, after… ...
August 26, 2013
Imprisoned Blogger’s Mother on Hunger Strike to Protest Prison Treatment
The mother of Hossein Ronaghi Maleki embarked on a hunger strike on Tuesday, August 20, to protest the situation of her son inside Evin Prison. “Hossein is not well in… ...
August 15, 2013
Sick Prisoner of Conscience Begins Hunger Strike
Prisoner of conscience Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been on a hunger strike since Sunday, August 11, to protest the prison authorities’ lack of attention to his and other sick prisoners’… ...
July 31, 2013
Security Forces Harass Family and Friends of Blogger
Peyman Roshanzamir, a blogger and web designer from Ahvaz who was sentenced to 17 months in prison in 2011, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that security… ...
July 25, 2013
Three Ahvazi Activists Held Under Ambiguous Conditions
Since the arrests of several Khuzestan Province civil activists in Ahvaz in April, no information has been available on the conditions of Adel Seymari, Majid Bavi, and Mohammad Jaberi, a… ...
July 15, 2013
Kurdish Lawyer Charged with Support of Kurdish Parties and Contacting UN
…Human Rights in Iran. Shamsinejad, an Orumiyeh lawyer who has represented many Kurdish political prisoners, has been charged with “supporting Kurdish parties,” “contacting foreign media,” “organizing anti-execution protest gatherings in… ...
July 8, 2013
Young Political Prisoner Attempts Suicide in Minab Prison
Afshin Sohrabzadeh, a young Kurdish prisoner at Minab Prison, attempted suicide on Wednesday, July 3, in protest of his exile and what he called the “deplorable conditions” of the facility,… ...
June 26, 2013
Prisoner of Conscience Said To Be Alive, Though No One Has Seen Him In Prison
Following rumors that prisoner of conscience Arash Sadeghi had died in prison, his former lawyer told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he is alive, though the… ...
June 26, 2013
Activist Given Six-Year Sentence and Exiled to Bandar Abbas
Political activist Saeed Madani has been sentenced to six years in prison in exile in Bandar Abbas. Mansoureh Ettefagh, the wife of the social researcher and visiting professor, expressed shock… ...
June 24, 2013
Four Years Later, Still No Justice for Neda’s Murder
On the fourth anniversary of the death of Neda Agha Soltan in the aftermath of the 2009 presidential elections, her mother told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran,… ...
June 14, 2013
Election Day: News Networks Blocked, Campaign Workers Limited, Universities Closed
As Iranians cast their votes for president today, authorities are blocking foreign Persian-language television stations, shutting down university campuses, and denying permissions and visas to some poll workers and foreign… ...