In the Media: 2011
A Diplomatic Face Seeks to Counter Iran’s Critics New York Times – 19 November 2011 “He is someone who is quite often used as the diplomatic face of Iran,” said… ...
A Diplomatic Face Seeks to Counter Iran’s Critics New York Times – 19 November 2011 “He is someone who is quite often used as the diplomatic face of Iran,” said… ...
Canadian blogger gets bail in Iran CBC News – December 10, 2010 The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said Thursday that Derakhshan is expected back in prison in… ...
Two years since the arrest and subsequent imprisonment of Iranian physicist and student Omid Kokabee, scientific societies are redoubling their efforts to secure his release. Students from the University of… ...
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is proud to announce the publication of a groundbreaking new book at the crossroads of art and human rights: Sketches of Iran:… ...
Though public executions are nothing new in the Islamic Republic of Iran, two executions carried out over the past week have received a lot of attention due to their time… ...
Lawyer and women’s rights activist Farideh Gheirat told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the new Passport and Exit Law bill, which will make it mandatory for… ...
On Wednesday, January 16, Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) reported of the public execution of a man charged with rape in the city of Sabzevar in Khorasan Province. Although there… ...
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In an exclusive interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, 2003 Nobel laureate and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi spoke about a new teachers’ rights initiative and… ...
Two days after police and plainclothes forces attacked the earthquake relief camp and arrested 35 relief workers on Thursday, August 23, ten detainees (all of the female and three of… ...
In the early hours of August 23, 2012, security and Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) forces attacked a relief camp set up to help earthquake victims in Eastern Azerbaijan. Thirty-five volunteer students… ...
At midnight on August 23, security and IRGC forces attacked a relief camp set up to help earthquake victims in Eastern Azerbaijan. Thirty five volunteer students and relief workers who… ...
(July 12, 2012) Iranian officials should cease spreading lies and disinformation about the existence of political prisoners as they are simultaneously imprisoning hundreds for exercising their legal rights, the International… ...
Arash Honarvar Shojayee, a dissident blogger and cleric, returned to Evin Prison on Saturday, June 30, after his furlough leave ended. Hours before returning to prison, in an interview with… ...
…Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, calls for Iran to uphold its obligations under international and domestic law and provide all students with the right to education and academic freedom…. ...
…teaching staff, created in response to the government’s ban on Baha’i students from Iranian universities. The BIHE has been the only university option for thousands of Baha’i students in Iran…. ...
…and discrimination against university students in Iran. The report notes that this practice has become a trend since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s ascension to power, and has only accelerated since: “The educational… ...
(15 May 2012) Omid Kokabee, an Iranian graduate student who has been imprisoned in Tehran for the past 15 months, was sentenced to 10 years on Sunday for allegedly conspiring… ...
…This video stands in solidarity with a call by the Iranian student association Daftar Tahkim Vahdat and alumni association Advar Tahkim Vahdat, and Speak Out for Imprisoned Iranian Students, a… ...
Judge Salavati has upheld the nine-year prison sentence for prominent lawyer and distinguished human rights activist Mohammad Ali Dadkhah. Dadkhah told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that… ...
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…along with numerous other groups, in a new campaign to call for the release of imprisoned students in Iran. The campaign, “Speak Up for Imprisoned Students,” is aimed at spreading… ...
The parents of imprisoned student Javad Alikhani told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that they watched the guards at Evin Prison beat up their son. Authorities also… ...
(11 April 2012) Today the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran released a short video and accompanying letter-writing campaign featuring the viewpoints of eight prominent Iranians on the domestic… ...