In a letter to Dilma Rousseff, the President of Brazil, 180 Iranian women’s rights activists asked her to show women in Iran and around the world, through any mode of… ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, labor activist Mansour Osanloo’s sister, Fereshteh Osanloo, reported her brother’s dangerous health condition in prison and said he… ...
A local source in Babol told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that several activists arrested in the northern city during recent protests on 14 and 20 February… ...
Seyed Hossein Javdani, a history lecturer at Payame Noor University, who was banned from teaching in the university for writing critical articles, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in… ...
This briefing paper provides a review of the “house arrest,” or detention in a “safe house,” of other prominent critics of the Islamic Republic during the past three decades. This… ...
Despite Larijani’s assertions, authorities routinely suppress free speech, undermine press freedom, and punish public criticism of the government and high-ranking state officials. Dozens of newspapers and websites have been banned… ...
Mass Post-Election Detainees Nobody is jailed because of the protest. The only reason for jailing is the violence which was attached with the protests, a violence which got the life… ...
As of December 2010, Iran has been engaged in an execution binge. In December 2010 authorities executed 48 people. In January 2011, official media reported 85 executions, averaging one execution… ...
An eyewitness who participated in the 1 March protests in Tehran shared details about his experience with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. He reported the presence of… ...
…weekly podcast: The government of Iran has once again denied its people permission to protest peacefully, even as its leadership continues to praise similar protests across the Arab world. On… ...
(24 February 2011) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomed the addition of two Iranian officials by the United States government today to its list of human rights… ...
A Tehran Arts University and a friend of slain protester Sane Jaleh told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran on condition of anonymity that last night four Arts… ...
While Iranian government media claimed that Sane Jaleh, one of those killed during protests on 14 February in Tehran, was a member of the Basij paramilitary forces, a member of… ...
A journalist who was an eye witness among the protestors today, sent the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran his observations of violence unleashed by forces, use of teargas,… ...
…and interviews. As the peaceful protests after the disputed 2009 presidential election in Iran were named the “Green Movement,” Ghonim’s green wristband has become a source of interest for Iranians…. ...
Hundreds taxi drivers in the Northern city of Babol went on strike yesterday, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran learned today. The strike began at 9:00 a.m. in… ...
…she must get ready to go to her trial in a few minutes. Protesting her treatment and lack of knowledge about her trial session, Sotoudeh refused to attend the session…. ...
Zahra Bahrami In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, daughter of imprisoned Iranian-Dutch citizen, Zahra Bahrami who is facing the death sentence on charges of… ...
Fatemeh Maleki, wife of prisoner of conscience Mohammad Nourizad, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about her first in-person visit with her husband after a two-month… ...
An informed source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that two political prisoners from the province of Azerbaijan, Dr. Latif Hassani and Ayat Mehrali Beigloo are under… ...
(9 January 2011) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called the 11-year prison sentence of leading human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh a “gross miscarriage of justice” and said… ...
After two trial sessions in Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court with Judge Pirabbasi presiding, lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh’s sentence was served to one of her lawyers… ...
The National Lawyers Guild, on 3 January 2011, issued a letter (LINK: http://www.nlg.org/news/announcements/national-lawyers-guild-urges-the-release-of-human-rights-defenders-in-iran/) calling for the release of human rights defenders facing arrest and prosecution inside Iran, including Nasrin Sotoudeh,… ...
Reza Khandan, husband of prominent Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he was summoned to Branch One of… ...
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