The Systematic Repression of the Women’s Rights Movement — May 2008
An International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran report on the various dimensions of the repression of women’s rights activists in Iran…. ...
An International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran report on the various dimensions of the repression of women’s rights activists in Iran…. ...
(13 January 2009) Plain clothes security agents attacked and disrupted a gathering organized by the Iranian nongovernmental group Mothers for Peace to protest ongoing violence in the Gaza Strip in… ...
(12 January 2009) Six more students from Shiraz University were detained, after they appeared at the Intelligence Office in Shiraz following official summonses, the International Campaign for Human Rights in… ...
(5 January 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported that four students at Shiraz University, Abdoljalil Rezaiee, Kazem Rezaiee, Mohsen Zarinkamar, and Loghman Ghadiri Goltapeh, were arrested… ...
(2 January 2009) The Iranian government should immediately end its campaign of persecution against Dr. Shirin Ebadi, which has now escalated to mob threats and violence against her home, the… ...
Lists compiling detained, imprisoned, suspended and released students from March 2007 to December 2008…. ...
(5 December 2008) Despite three years of persecution and prosecution and increasing threats from official organs against university students, the voices of Iranian students promoting academic freedom on university campuses… ...
…on 22 November. In the early hours of 25 November, security forces violently attacked them and other students who had gathered in their support and detained the four suspended students…. ...
Ebrahim Rashidi is a poet, writer and Mechanical Engineering graduate of Orumieh University. On 5 August 2008, he was sent to prison to begin serving his five-month prison sentence…. ...
English, Passed by Third Committee 21 November 2008, Adopted by General Assembly 18 December 2008… ...
(20 October 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran together with the Asian NGOs Network on National Human Rights Institutions (ANNI) strongly condemn the acts of Iranian and… ...
Behrouz Karimizadeh, arrested on November 3, 2008, is a student activist. He is being held in Evin prison. Karimizadeh and more than 60 other students were arrested during a nationwide… ...
Ali Kantouri, arrested on November 3, 2008, is a student activist. He is held in Evin prison. Kantouri and more than 60 other students were arrested during a nationwide sweep… ...
Peyman Piran, arrested in November 2007, is a political dissident and student activist. He is held in Evin prison and has reportedly been subjected to ill-treatment to make false confessions…. ...
English, Issued 1 October 2008… ...
Under President Ahmadinejad’s administration, Iran’s human rights record has deteriorated markedly. While the international community’s attention has focused on nuclear concerns, Iran has not been held accountable for its violations… ...
(17 September 2008) Intelligence Ministry agents arrested 19 prominent members of the Azerbaijani minority at a private Ramadan celebration on the evening of 10 September 2008, and detained them in… ...
…on May 29, 2007. Security forces arrested Mansouri, Ahmad Ghasaban, and Majid Tavakoli along with five other students following a week of unrest at Amir Kabir University in May 2007…. ...
(4 September 2008) A group of leading civil society activists, intellectuals, lawyers, artists, and others in Iran have joined the National Peace Council to oppose military conflict over the nuclear… ...
…deputy general prosecutor of Tehran, Hasan Hadad, told the Iranian Students News Agency that the detained students, two physicians, and seven Baha’i leaders are held in relation to security charges…. ...
…well-known social activist in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan. The Iranian Students News Agency termed Mehrnehad a “terrorist,” accusing him of membership in an armed Baluchi group. “Mehrnehad’s… ...
…said today. During the past two weeks, the authorities have detained more than twenty students, seventeen of whom remain in detention. These detentions coincided with the anniversary of massive student… ...
Legislation introduced by Iran’s Parliament on 2 July 2008. It expands crimes punishable by death to include certain blogging and website activities…. ...
(16 June 2008) Security and intelligence agents are regularly contacting and terrorizing nine former student detainees with threats of prosecution under the charge of apostasy that can result in execution… ...
(Geneva, 6 June 2008) – The Iranian government should cooperate with United Nations human rights bodies in order to address the ongoing human rights abuses in the country, a group… ...