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Tag : Iran election 2017

May 15, 2017

Iran Election Update – May 15, 2017

Items of Note Khatami Endorses Rouhani Influential reformist leader Mohammad Khatami has thrown his weight behind incumbent President Hassan Rouhani for Iran's May 19 presidential election. “We started on a path with Mr. Rouhani and we are at ...

May 11, 2017

Several Reformist Candidates Disqualified at Last Minute From Tehran City Council Election

A number of prominent reformist politicians have been disqualified from running in Tehran’s City Council election despite being previously approved by the election monitoring committee. The list ...

May 11, 2017

Iran’s Supreme Leader Issues Familiar Anti-Protest Warning Ahead of 2017 Elections

Any citizen or candidate who attempts to disrupt the upcoming elections will receive a “hard slap in the face,” ...

May 11, 2017

Iran Election Update  |  May 11, 2017

Articles ​Iran’s Supreme Leader Issues Familiar Anti-Protest Warning Ahead of 2017 Elections Any citizen or candidate who attempts to disrupt the upcoming elections will receive a “hard slap in the face," warned Khamenei in a ...

May 11, 2017

Seven Things You Should Know About Iran’s 2017 Election

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May 10, 2017

Reformist Journalist: Hardliners Working to Sabotage Rouhani Campaign With Intimidation Tactics

By preventing speeches in favor of President Hassan Rouhani and blocking his campaigners from reaching voters, hardliners ...

May 9, 2017

Rouhani Slams Conservative Presidential Rivals’ Grim Human Rights Records

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, currently campaigning for a second term win in the May 19, 2017 ...

May 8, 2017

Family Witnesses Reformist Political Activist Faint From Hunger Strike in Evin Prison

Hengameh Shahidi Held Without Charge or Legal Counsel Since March 2017 More than 50 days into her hunger strike in Evin Prison in Tehran, ...

May 8, 2017

Mehrangiz Kar: My Husband Was Tortured and Forced to Confess by Presidential Candidate Ghalibaf’s Police

Presidential candidate Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf played a key role in major human rights violations as the commander of ...

May 8, 2017

Rouhani Staff Repeatedly Blocked From Campaigning in North Tehran Weeks Before 2017 Elections

For the second week in a row, the staff at the campaign headquarters of incumbent President ...

May 5, 2017

Prominent Political Activist Faezeh Hashemi Barred From Speaking at Rouhani Campaign Event

Speeches by reformist politicians and supporters of incumbent president Hassan Rouhani have been cancelled ahead of the May 19, 2017 presidential election, including two by former member of Parliament Faezeh Hashemi. Hashemi, an outspoken political activist and the ...

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 ...

May 4, 2017

An Interview with Scholar and Historian Ervand Abrahamian on the Islamic Republic’s “Greatest Crime”

Renowned scholar Dr. Ervand Abrahamian discusses the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners in Iran with CHRI. ...

May 4, 2017

CHRI’s updates on Iran’s 2017 elections | May 3, 2017

Get caught up on Iran’s 2017 presidential and local council elections with a special weekly update by CHRI. ...

May 4, 2017

Hardliners Pounce on Rouhani Campaigner’s Criticism of Iran’s Military Policy in Syria

Gholamhossein Karbaschi, the reformist former mayor of Tehran and a supporter of President Hassan Rouhani, has ...

May 3, 2017

Shirin Ebadi: Iran’s 2017 Presidential Hopefuls Have Unacceptable Human Rights Records

Not one of the candidates running for Iran’s presidency has an acceptable human rights record, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate ...

May 2, 2017

Judiciary Shuts Down Reformists’ Campaign Headquarters in Iran’s Second Largest City

The campaign headquarters of reformists in Khorasan Razavi Province, northeastern Iran, was shuttered on May 2, 2017—three weeks before the country’s presidential and local council elections on May 19, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. ...

April 27, 2017

Iran’s Other Elections: Local Council Applicants Subjected to Arbitrary Vetting

In a surprising development, a few outspoken and prominent political activists have been approved to run in Iran’s elections for city and village councils on May 19, 2017. However, many well-known activists and reformists have been arbitrarily disqualified. ...

April 25, 2017

Former MP: Guardian Council Has “No Legal Authority” to Exclude Religious Minorities From Elections

The Guardian Council’s attempt to ban religious minorities from running in Iran’s nationwide local council elections on May 19, 2017 is unlawful ...

April 21, 2017

Former MP Urges Iranian Government to “Trust” and Allow Sunnis to Run For President

In the run-up to Iran’s May 19, 2017 presidential election, a Sunni Muslim former member of Parliament has renewed his call ...

April 20, 2017

Low Female Participation Rate in Iranian Elections Symptom of Gender Inequality

Women's rights advocate Nahid Tavasoli is the editor-in-chief of Nafe, an academic women’s periodical. The low number of female participants in Iranian elections is an indicator of ...

April 19, 2017

Iranian Media Banned From Covering Ahmadinejad’s May 2017 Presidential Campaign

Iranian media outlets have been ordered to stop reporting on former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s third presidential campaign for the ...

April 18, 2017

Prominent Political Activist Continues Fight for Gender Equality in Iran’s 2017 Presidential Election

Prominent political activist, Azam Taleghani, 72, ...

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