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Tag : arbitrary detention

September 25, 2020

Top UN Experts Demand Immediate Release of Nasrin Sotoudeh

UN Calls Her Return to Prison “Unfathomable” and “State Retaliation for Her Tireless Work Defending Human Rights”  Sixteen of the UN’s top experts released a statement today demanding that Iran immediately release imprisoned human rights lawyer ...

December 20, 2019

UN Experts Alarmed at Alleged Mistreatment of Detained Protesters

UN Press Release, GENEVA (20 December 2019) – UN human rights experts* today called on the Iranian authorities to release all individuals arbitrarily detained and mistreated during recent protests, and expressed concerns over the hundreds of people ...

September 8, 2015

House Arrest of Presidential Candidates, Long a Taboo Topic, Emerges as Public Issue Again in Iran

Minister of Justice, Mostafa Pourmohammadi Three days after President Hassan Rouhani suggested the possibility of a legal solution to the long-running house arrest of Iran’s former ...

March 12, 2014

Paper Close to Revolutionary Guards Doctors Ashton Photo to Erase Image of Torture Victim’s Mother

Almost immediately after EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton met with a group of activists in Tehran, Iranian authorities unleashed a barrage of angry remarks and insults about her visit. ...

September 22, 2011

“One of His Charges is ‘Receiving an Illegal Prize,'” Says Prominent Lawyer’s Wife

Massoumeh Dehghan, wife of lawyer and co-founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center Abdolfattah Soltani, expressed concern about her husband's conditions and her lack of contact with him for the past several days. ...

September 12, 2011

Abdolfattah Soltani Arrested; Home and Offices Illegally Raided

On 10 September, Abdolfattah Soltani, human rights lawyer and a founding member of the Defenders of Human Rights Center was arrested. Soltani's wife, Massoumeh Dehghan, told the International Campaign for Human Rights ...

September 6, 2011

Political Prisoner’s Friend Commits Suicide After Release

Confirming news of Behnam Ganji Khaibari’s suicide, a friend of his spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about the 22-year-old student who was arrested on 31 July, along with human rights activist Kouhyar Goudarzi, and was later released on 8 August. ...

September 2, 2011

Student Activist in Solitary Confinement on Hunger Strike

To protest his conditions inside Babol’s Matikola Prison, imprisoned student activist Ashkan Zahabian embarked on a hunger strike on 31 August. Zahabian’s father, Hassan Zahabian, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that prison staff moved his son to solitary confinement after he ...

September 1, 2011

Four Kermanshah Cultural Figures Released, While Four Others Remain in Prison

A human rights activist in Kurdistan told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that of the eight cultural and literary figures that were detained a month ago in the city of Gilan-e-Gharb, four were released on bail in the past two days. The ...

August 30, 2011

Jailed Iranian Lawyer and Human Rights Defender: “The Justice System Is More Ruined Than Before”

Fatemeh Golzar, wife of lawyer and a founding member of the Defenders for Human Rights Center Mohammad Seifzadeh, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about her husband’s case. “Mr. Seifzadeh believes that he has not committed any crime, but the case ...

August 26, 2011

Imprisoned Journalist in Need of Emergency Medical Treatment

A source close to the family of imprisoned journalist Keyvan Samimi, who is in his 60s, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that a tumor found in Samimi’s liver has caused grave concern to his family and he must be immediately hospitalized ...

August 5, 2011

UN Special Rapporteur Should Visit Iranian Prisons, Says Husband of Imprisoned Actress

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, celebrated Iranian filmmaker Nasser Taghvai said that despite statements made by the Prosecutor General last week, his wife, actress Marzieh Vafamehr, who was arrested more than a month ago for acting a role ...

August 2, 2011

Three Kurdish Literary and Cultural Figures Arrested

A human rights activist in the Kurdistan Province told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that last week three literary and cultural figures of Gilanegharb were arrested by security forces ...

August 2, 2011

Continued Unexplained Detention of Two Kurdish Citizens

A human rights activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that more than 50 days after Kurdish citizen Madeh Alavi Jani’s arrest and detention, his charges are still unknown. After his arrest, Alavi Jani, a teacher from Saghez, was transferred from ...

July 26, 2011

Distinguished Director Talks About Wife’s Case and Women in Film

Distinguished Iranian filmmaker Nasser Taghvai spoke with International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran in an interview about the situation of his wife, Marzieh Vafamehr. Excerpts from the interview are below: My wife’s temporary detention was extended for an additional month. One month has passed since ...

June 17, 2011

UN Working Groups tells Iran ‘Release Kiarash Kamrani’: Will Officials Ignore the High-Ranking Body?

On 8 June 2011, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention determined that Kiarash Kamrani’s detention in Iran is “arbitrary detention.” The Working Group urged the Iranian government to take the necessary steps to remedy the situation, including the immediate release of Kamrani and ...

May 24, 2011

Release Women’s Rights Activists

Iranian judicial authorities should immediately release two recently detained women’s rights activists, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The Campaign added that the Judiciary should end the harassment and arbitrary prosecution of citizens engaged in lawful actions aimed at challenging Iran’s ...

March 15, 2011

Iranian-Canadian on Death Row Faced Torture and Unfair Trial

Hamid Ghasemi-Shall an Iranian and Canadian citizen, was arrested on 24 May 2008, and eventually charged with espionage and contact with the Mojahedin-e Khalgh Organization. Ghasemi-Shall spent 18 months in solitary confinement. For the first eight months of his detention he had no access ...

November 26, 2010

Release Ailing, 80-year-old Former Foreign Minister

(26 November 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for the immediate release for medical treatment of Ebrahim Yazdi, who has been in detention since 1 October, but has yet to be informed of the charges against him. The Islamic Republic’s first ...

February 1, 2010

No Information About Jailed Artist Mehraneh Atashi

(1 February 2010) Internationally recognized photographer Mehraneh Atashi, along with her husband Madjid Ghaffari, were arrested on 12 January 2010 in their home in Tehran and detained, apparently in solitary confinement in ward 209 of Evin prison, but authorities have released no information about ...

January 20, 2010

Release Imprisoned Cleric, End Persecution of Family

(20 January 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for the immediate release of Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Khalaji, who was arrested on 12 January at his home in Qum, and reportedly taken to Evin prison on 19 January and placed in solitary ...

January 10, 2010

Update: Detained Mothers Shuffled Between Emergency Rooms and Detention Center

(10 January 2010) Authorities transferred nine of the 33 detained members of the Mourning Mothers to emergency rooms following their detention yesterday, and later took them to Vozara Detention Center in Tehran, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The nine mothers suffer ...

January 9, 2010

30 Members of Mourning Mothers Detained

(9 January 2010) Security forces attacked and detained 30 members of Mourning Mothers in Laleh Park and surrounding streets in Tehran today at around 4 p.m. local time, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported. Mourning Mothers is a group of mothers whose ...

June 23, 2009

Human Rights Organization Provides the Names of Prominent Detainees, Calls for Their Release

(23 June 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran today published lists of Iranian citizens it has confirmed killed and detained since the disputed 12 June presidential elections. The lists are not comprehensive and show the names of only some of the ...

May 14, 2009

Baha’is Currently Imprisoned in Iran

Baha’is throughout Iran are routinely arrested and interrogated by government officials. This list is only the published and known names of those arrested. ...

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