Labor Activists Spend Second Week in Detention without Charges
Two labor activists who were arrested at their homes on April 30, 2014, one day before a planned Labor Day gathering in Tehran, remain in detention without charges or outside… ...
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May 7, 2014
Labor Activists Remain in Prison for May Day Gathering
Two leading workers’ rights activists, arrested by security forces in Tehran at an International Labor Day gathering on May 1, 2014, remain in prison…. ...
April 24, 2014
State Propaganda Film on Evin Attack “Shameless”
A film clip shown on Iran’s state television denying the well-documented brutal assault on political prisoners at Evin Prison Ward 350 by security guards on April 17, 2014 has been… ...
April 11, 2014
Family of Blogger Killed in Custody Insists on Murder Charges
Sattar Behesti, a blogger who died under torture by a prison interrogator, with his mother. The family of Sattar Beheshti, the blogger who died under torture by his prison… ...
March 27, 2014
Hundreds of Lawyers Advocate on Behalf of Imprisoned Dervish Lawyers
In two separate letters addressed to Head of the Iranian Judiciary Sadegh Larijani, Iranian lawyers have asked him for his immediate review of the judicial violations in the cases of… ...
March 11, 2014
Protesting Dervishes Beaten and Detained
Security agents and police verbally and physically assaulted Gonabadi dervishes before arresting them for their protest gathering outside the Judiciary in Tehran, a protesting dervish told the International Campaign for… ...
March 11, 2014
Critical Speech Lands Journalist-Activist in Jail
Iranian authorities arrested a reformist journalist and activist on March 6, one week after he gave a speech criticizing state bodies and authorities. Security forces have transferred Saeed Razavi Faghih,… ...
March 7, 2014
Release Shafipour, Hedayat, and All Other Women Prisoners of Conscience
As the world prepares to honor and promote the economic, political, and social achievements of women on International Women’s Day, Iran has sentenced yet another young woman, Maryam Shafipour, for… ...
February 3, 2014
Long Lines, Empty Hands: Rouhani Government’s Distribution of Small Economic Relief Packages
One hundred days after his election, Hassan Rouhani told reporters in November, “The Government will provide something small this year for people in low-income tiers. God willing, we hope to… ...
January 31, 2014
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… ...
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… ...