Blindfolds and Handcuffs for Sotoudeh During Visitation
…Sotoudeh was not brought to the visiting hour last Thursday for unclear reasons. Sotoudeh went on a dry hunger strike for the third time last week to protest her condition…. ...
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December 4, 2010
List of 217 Students Barred from Higher Education from 2005 to November 2010
Back to table of contents This is a partial list of students deprived of higher education in the past six years. The true numbers are believed to be much higher…. ...
December 3, 2010
Background of Starred Student Controversy
Next Section: Regulatory Framework for Denial of Education Back to table of contents Starring Gains Public Exposure In September 2006, a year after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s election as President, a public… ...
November 23, 2010
UN human rights chief concerned by Iranian crackdown on human rights defenders
GENEVA – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday expressed renewed concern for the fate of human rights defenders in Iran, particularly Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh who… ...
November 12, 2010
Family Members Describe Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Dire Physical Condition While on Hunger Strike
After visiting his wife Nasrin Sotoudeh for the first on Thursday, Reza Khandan described her as unimaginably thin. Khandan said Sotoudeh ended her dry hunger strike on Tuesday and is… ...
November 4, 2010
Expulsion of Two Student Activists from Mazandaran Universities
An informed student activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that two Mazandaran Province political student activists were expelled from university. The students are Kaveh Daneshvar, a… ...
October 7, 2010
Shirin Ebadi’s International Appeal to Help Imprisoned Colleague
Following publication of news about Nasrin Sotoudeh’s hunger strike in prison and her interrogations under duress, Shirin Ebadi, head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, told the International Campaign… ...
September 14, 2010
Diane Sawyer
Diane Sawyer of ABC’s ‘World News Tonight’ Interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad December 22, 2009 DIANE SAWYER: The three American hikers who say they accidentally wandered into Iranian territory while looking… ...
September 14, 2010
Larry King – September 2009
Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Larry King – CNN September 26, 2009 KING: Your country has, you’ve said, rather, that 40 million people participated in the June elections. Iran uses paper ballots…. ...
September 14, 2010
Katie Couric Interviews Ahmadinejad
…and journalists were arrested, badly beaten, and tortured. One woman, 27 year old Neda, as you know, was shot to death while protesting and her death was captured on a… ...
September 14, 2010
Kim Bildsoe
Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Kim Bildsoe of Dutch TV January 8, 2010 KIM BILDSOE: There has been protestors on the street, some have called them also lately, traitors, that they don’t… ...
September 13, 2010
Suggested Questions for President Ahmadinejad
Next: Interviewers and Human Rights Issues Discussed Back to Page 1 of Suggested Questions 8. Question on allegations of forced confessions Question: How do you respond to allegations by former… ...
September 13, 2010
Suggested Questions for President Ahmadinejad
Page 2 of Suggested Questions 1. Question on former Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi Question: Former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi has been indicted by a special Judges Court within the Iranian… ...
September 9, 2010
Letter of Prominent Prisoner of Conscience, Abdollah Momeni, to Ayatollah Khamanei
In the Name of God Ayatollah Khamenei The Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran During one of my days in detention at Evin prison, I had the opportunity to… ...
August 30, 2010
Neda’s Mother Appeals to the International Community
Hajar Rostami appeals to international community to help find her daughter’s murderer…. ...
August 11, 2010
Mother of Political Prisoner On Hunger Strike Talks About “Those Two Weeks”
…“The last meeting I had with my son was two Saturdays ago…the next day Kouhyar and 16 others started their hunger strike. Three days later, the families of protesting prisoners… ...
August 11, 2010
Iranian State TV Acts as an Arm of the Intelligence Apparatus
(11 August 2010) The Iranian state-controlled radio and television, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), has acted as an arm of intelligence and security agencies implicated in gross human rights… ...
August 6, 2010
“My Son is Under Pressure to Participate in Televised Confessions,” says Activist’s Mother
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Zoleikha Moussavi, mother of blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, discussed her son’s poor prison conditions. She told the Campaign… ...
August 6, 2010
August 5 – 11 2010 (Podcast)
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: 17 prisoners of conscience go on hunger strike to protest poor treatment, lack of health facilities, and suspension of family visits; marking the one… ...
August 3, 2010
Protesting One Year of Detention for American Hikers
Hundreds of people gathered last Saturday in several cities around the world to protest the year-long imprisonment of three young American hikers. The three individuals, who according to Iranian authorities… ...
July 29, 2010
Shadi Sadr to Iran’s Bar Association: Do Not Keep Silent on State Kidnap and Revenge
Shadi Sadr, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, published the following open letter regarding the case of persecuted lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaee: Honourable Chair of Iran Bar Association, Honourable members of… ...
July 28, 2010
“Bahareh Hedayat’s Defense Went Unnoticed – She Received the Maximum Sentence,” Says Lawyer
The nine year prison sentence for student activist Bahareh Hedayat was recently upheld by an appeals court in Tehran. Hedayat is a member of the Central Council and spokesperson of… ...
July 27, 2010
Kefayat Malek Mohammadi’s Lawyer Objects to Her Five Year Prison Sentence
…with her husband during last year’s Ashura protests (27 December 2009). “My client was found guilty of illegal assembly and conspiracy to take action against national security in Branch 28… ...
July 26, 2010
Lawyer Says No Evidence To Support Harsh Sentence For Student
Student activist Zia Nabavi’s lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that despite her client’s denial of relations with the Mojahedin-E Khalgh Organization (MEK) and… ...
July 19, 2010
Ten Iranians Facing Death by Stoning
Seven women and three men are sentenced to death for adultery Everyone has a date marked on their calendar, be it a birthday, wedding anniversary or even the beginning of… ...