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Tag : Hassan Rouhani

September 24, 2018

Activists Call on UNGA Attendees to Hold Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani Accountable

With President Hassan Rouhani in New York attending the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, the Center for Human Rights in Iran has urged UNGA attendees to directly address the worsening human rights situation in Iran. Diplomats should raise the issue of the arrests of ...

September 19, 2018

Rouhani Should Be Called to Account for Human Rights Abuses in Iran at UN Gathering

Mobile Billboard with Photos of Iran’s Political Prisoners to Circle UN Headquarters During Meetings September 19, 2018—As President Hassan Rouhani comes to NY to attend the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, the Center for Human Rights ...

July 17, 2018

Rouhani Facing Widespread Outrage as Student Protesters Remain Behind Bars and Receive Harsh Sentences

Students and professors gather to protest at a university in Iran 120 Academics in Iran Call on Rouhani to Immediately Suspend ...

June 1, 2018

107 Iranian Film Personalities Urge Rouhani to Lift State Ban on Pre-Revolution Actor

More than 100 Iranian artists and movie industry personalities have urged President Hassan Rouhani to lift the state ban on a well-known actor who has been living in exile for nearly four decades. ...

May 3, 2018

Reformists Look On as Former Rouhani Campaign Manager Ordered to Serve Two-Year in Prison For Poem

High School Teacher Prosecuted For Satirical Poem About Shia Imam A former campaign manager for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been ordered to serve a two-year prison sentence for reading a satirical poem...

January 12, 2018

President Rouhani Changes Course and Acknowledges Protesters’ Varied Reasons For Discontent

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani struck a more conciliatory tone in reacting for the second time to a wave of protests that have recently swept across dozens of Iranian cities. “Some people think that the people ...

October 25, 2017

Conservative Clerics, IRGC Pressured Court to Convict Rouhani Campaigner

Ali Mohammad Mohammadi, a former local chief campaigner for President Hassan Rouhani, ...

October 14, 2017

Rouhani’s Criticism of Judiciary for Tightening Ban on Reformist Ex-President Spurs Debate

President Hassan Rouhani’s criticism of the judiciary for arbitrarily punishing critics of the state, including ally and reformist former President Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005), has been met with a flurry of responses from adversaries and ...

September 18, 2017

Rouhani’s Broken Promises

Iranian President Rouhani is scheduled to speak this week at the 2017 UNGA in New York, but he won't mention his Broken Promises....

July 5, 2017

Iran’s Supreme Leader Comes to Judiciary’s Defense After Rouhani Criticizes Problematic Arrests

Iran’s supreme leader is continuing his public criticism of newly re-elected President Hassan Rouhani, this time accusing him of not doing enough to aid the judiciary in protecting the ...

June 30, 2017

Reformist Former MP: Rouhani Should Stand By His Voters Despite Opposition From Hardliners

Despite a spate of attacks from powerful conservatives, newly re-elected President Hassan Rouhani should fulfill the promises he made to the people who voted for him, a reformist former legislator told the Center for ...

May 30, 2017

Nasrin Sotoudeh: To Improve Women’s Rights, Rouhani Must Curb Power of Security Agencies

Prominent human rights lawyer and former political prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh has called on Iran’s newly re-elected president to improve gender equality by counteracting the repressive security apparatus ...

May 30, 2017

Cartoon 168: Rouhani and His Promises

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May 5, 2017

Rouhani Promises to Withdraw Anti-Labor Amendments While Police Quash Peaceful Protests

During a ceremony marking International Labor Day on May 1, 2017, President Hassan Rouhani, who will be running for re-election on May 19, pledged to withdraw an amendment to ...

May 5, 2017

Rouhani Government Touts Amendment Blocking Police From Unilaterally Stopping Music Concerts

Effectiveness of Legal Measure Remains Unclear The government of President Hassan Rouhani has announced the passage of a new amendment intended to block police from preventing sanctioned music concerts without a court ...

April 30, 2017

Former Political Prisoner: Ruling Elite “Preventing Justice” by Supporting Raisi’s Presidential Bid

Iranian presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi, who served on a special committee in 1988 that implemented the executions of thousands of political prisoners, is “a ...

April 14, 2017

Crimes Against Humanity in Iran Thrust Into Limelight With Raisi’s Presidential Bid

 Ebrahim Raisi Was Member of “Death Commissions” that Ordered Extrajudicial Killings of Thousands of Prisoners in 1988 April 14, 2017–The candidacy in ...

March 30, 2017

Rouhani Orders Investigation Into “Suspicious” Pre-Election Arrests After MPs Ask Him for Explanation

A little over a week after reformist members of Parliament asked Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to attend to a spate of arrests ahead of the country’s ...

March 23, 2017

MPs Demand Answers from Rouhani on Increasing Arrests Ahead of Elections

President Hassan Rouhani has yet to respond to a letter from four reformist members of Parliament demanding an explanation for the spate ...

February 17, 2017

Iran’s Supreme Leader Cements Hardline Position by Rejecting Offer of National Reconciliation

Some Conservatives Side With Reformist Leader Khatami Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s refusal of an offer to achieve “national reconciliation” in Iran by ending the six-year extrajudicial house arrests of ...

February 15, 2017

Opposition Leader’s Son: Khamenei and Rouhani Are Responsible for Extrajudicial House Arrests

The son of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, who has been detained under house arrest without trial since 2011, told the Campaign for Human ...

December 22, 2016

Rouhani Unveils Toothless Charter on Citizen’s Rights Without Path to Implementation

Five months before his second term re-election bid, President Hassan Rouhani signed his government’s “Charter on Citizen's Rights” on December 19, 2016. The announcement was touted as the fulfillment ...

November 18, 2016

Rouhani Has Done Nothing to Free Political Prisoners and Is Being Called out for It

A prominent Iranian political analyst has criticized President Hassan Rouhani for reneging on his pledge to free political prisoners and opposition leaders. The centrist cleric’s record as president will be heavily scrutinized ahead of Iran’s ...

November 8, 2016

Judiciary Chief Accuses Rouhani of Hypocrisy Amid Battle Over Freedom of Expression in Iran

Shortly after criticizing attacks on freedom of expression in Iran, President Hassan Rouhani was accused of hypocrisy by Judiciary Chief Sadegh Larijani, who claimed he had been asked by Rouhani ...

October 4, 2016

Rouhani Press Bills Would Further Erode Press Freedom in Iran

Experts Suspect Intelligence Establishment’s Direct Influence The government of President Hassan Rouhani is preparing to introduce two bills to Parliament that media experts and journalists say could further erode press freedom and ...

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