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’… ...
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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… ...
June 14, 2013
Reading Marx in Tehran (New York Times)
Iran’s presidential election on June 14 will be neither free nor fair…. ...
May 29, 2013
Student Activist Forcefully Arrested to Serve Prison Sentence
Security forces stormed the home of Ashkan Zahabian, a former Mashhad University student and member of the Daftar Tahkim Vahdat Student Organization General Council, arrested him, and transferred him to… ...
May 21, 2013
Kurdish Political Prisoner Sews Lips on Hunger Strike in Orumiyeh Prison
…a hunger strike on May 19 to protest Orumiyeh Central Prison officials’ lack of attention to his request for transfer to Naghadeh Prison, a local source told the International Campaign… ...
May 20, 2013
Kurdish Death Row Prisoner Transferred, His Lawyer Arrested
A Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death has been transferred back to Orumiyeh Central Prison after spending 15 months inside the Semnan Central Prison, a local source told the International… ...
May 16, 2013
Presidential Candidate Brags About His Direct Role in Violence and Repression
(May 16, 2013) The international community should immediately institute a travel ban and asset freeze against Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, the current mayor of Tehran and a contender in the upcoming… ...
May 13, 2013
Kurdish Political Prisoner Transferred to Undisclosed Location, in Danger of Imminent Execution
Habibollah Golparipour, a Kurdish political prisoner on death row, was summoned by the Semnan Central Prison officials on May 9 and informed that he must prepare himself for transfer to… ...
May 5, 2013
Refugee Iranian Photojournalist In Turkish Security Prison
…Moghimi, Salmanzadeh’s close friend and former colleague, Salmanzadeh embarked on a dry hunger strike for five days to protest his arrest and his detention inside the Ankara Security Detention Center…. ...
May 3, 2013
Dervish Issued Harsh Sentence to Intimidate Others
Kasra Nouri, 22, a Gonabadi Dervish imprisoned at Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz, has been sentenced to four years and four months in prison in part to intimidate other youth… ...
April 29, 2013
Medicine and Healthcare
A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians’ Economic and Social Rights Medicine and Healthcare Crucially, the combination of sanctions and mismanagement has also reduced the… ...
April 29, 2013
The Ahmadinejad Period (2005–Present)
A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians’ Economic and Social Rights The Ahmadinejad Period (2005-Present) Even before the imposition of the 2012 sanctions, however, the… ...
April 26, 2013
2013 Elections: Former MP Arrested for a Political Meeting That Never Happened
Former Member of Parliament Hossein Loghmanian and four reformist activists from Hamadan Province were arrested while on their way to Tehran to meet former president Mohammad Khatami on March 16,… ...
April 19, 2013
Political Prisoners Protest Cell Search with 72-hour Hunger Strike
Political prisoners in Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj are currently undergoing a 72-hour hunger strike in protest of degrading treatment by Special Guard forces, a local source told the International… ...
April 18, 2013
Public Outcry in Kurdish City After Male Suspect Paraded in Female Clothing
A group of Kurdish activist women from Marivan, along with a few citizens of the city, held a demonstration April 16 on the main streets of the city in protest… ...
April 16, 2013
Dervish Lawyers in Dire Health at Evin Prison
Seven Dervish lawyers being held at the Intelligence Ministry’s Ward 209 at Evin Prison have not had access to light in months and have developed various illnesses, the wife of… ...
March 28, 2013
Death Row Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Iran
Six Arab-Iranian prisoners have been on hunger strike at Ahvaz’s Karoon Prison since March 3 in protest of the judicial process in their cases and their extreme sentences, a cousin… ...
March 13, 2013
Special Rapporteur’s March 2013 report on the situation of human rights in Iran
The present report is the second to be submitted to the Human Rights Council, pursuant to Council resolution 16/9, and communicates developments in the human rights situation of the Islamic… ...