Rights Groups: Iranian Dissidents Remain at Risk Worldwide Without International Action
July 19, 2021—In a joint statement released today, 10 human rights groups, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran, urged the international ...
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October 29, 2019
Human Rights Watch: Sanctions Constrain Iranians’ Ability to Finance and Access Humanitarian Imports
U.S. Government Should Establish Viable Channel to Facilitate Permissible Trade to Iran Despite humanitarian exemptions, U.S. economic sanctions on Iran are causing “unnecessary ...
February 10, 2018
Iranian-Canadian Academic Dies in Custody While Under Interrogations
A third detainee, 63-year old Iranian-Canadian professor Kavous Seyed-Emami, has died in custody in Iran, barely 17 days after his arrest and while under interrogations ...
January 6, 2012
Podcast 44: Iranian Refugees in an interview with Faraz Sanei
The idea of ‘being a refugee’ can evoke many different images in people’s minds. Refugees from Iran are perhaps not what one may immediately think of as ‘typical’. To start with, there’s a relatively wide range of reasons behind people’s decision to flee – ...
November 10, 2010
Weekly Rights Podcast 17: Interview with Human Rights Experts
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: an interview with Dokhi Fassihian of the Democracy Coalition Project and Faraz Sanei of Human Rights Watch on the need for a human rights monitor or rapporteur in Iran. [audio:https://iranhumanrights.org/wp-content/uploads/podcast17.mp3|titles=Weekly Rights Podcast 17] ...
October 28, 2010
Human Rights Crisis Requires International Scrutiny
Joint Statement by Human Rights Groups (28 October 2010) In the light of the severity of the human rights situation in Iran, the Iranian authorities’ refusal to cooperate with existing international human rights mechanisms, and their rejection of many specific recommendations from member states under the ...
September 21, 2010
Press Conference on the Human Rights Crisis in Iran
Nobelists Call for Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Release On Friday, 17 September 2010, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, in partnership with Human Rights Watch and the Nobel Women’s Initiative, held a panel discussion in New York on the human rights crisis in Iran. The panelists ...
February 10, 2009
Four Journalists Sentenced to Prison, Floggings
(10 February 2009) The sentencing of four Tehran bloggers by Iran’s Judiciary Court on February 3, 2009, to prison terms, fines and flogging, despite the head of the judiciary’s admission that they had been coerced into confessing, violates their right to a fair trial, Human ...
January 2, 2009
Threats to Nobel Laureate Escalate
(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 International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Human Rights Watch said today. Dr. Ebadi ...