No Action Yet in Parliament on Bill to Ban Broadcast of Confessions During Investigations
Bill Does Not Ban Extraction of Confessions, They Can Still Be Used at Later Stages An Iranian parliamentary bill that aims to stop state-funded ...
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February 11, 2019
Iranian Agents Tried to Frame Detained Conservationists by Staging Scenes to Falsely Implicate Them
Three Major State Agencies Rejected Charges of Espionage, Indictment Based on Retracted False “Confessions” February 11, 2019 – Amid eight conservationists’ closed-door trial in Iran’s revolutionary court system, the Center for Human ...
July 9, 2018
Iran’s Forcing of Teenage Girl to Confess on State TV for Posting Dance Video Prompts Strong Outcry
Authorities Ramp Up Crackdown on Social Media July 9, 2018—Forcing a teenage girl to confess on state TV for the “crime” of posting a video of herself ...
December 28, 2017
Ahmadreza Djalali’s Wife: My Husband Was “Framed” For Refusing to Spy for Iran
The wife of an Iranian-born Swedish resident sentenced to death in Iran on espionage charges has denied ...
December 18, 2017
Forced Confession of Academic on Death Row in Iran Has No Legitimacy
A scene from Ahmadreza Djalali's forced confession that was aired on Iran's state-run IRIB ...
February 6, 2017
Intelligence Ministry Cracks Down on Alleged “Anti-Revolutionary” Telegram Channels
A screenshot of the heavily edited ...
March 14, 2014
Abdollah Momeni Released After Completing Five Year Term Without Furlough
Photo from Mr. Momeni's Facebook page shows him among friends and family immediately after release on March 13, 2014. Abdollah Momeni, former Spokesperson for the nationwide ...
June 20, 2011
Shirin Ebadi Says Deaths of Political Prisoners is Systematic
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Noble Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi discussed the hunger strike embarked on by 12 political prisoners in protest of the death of Hoda Saber. Ebadi told the Campaign that the deaths of ...