Former Presidential Candidate Karroubi Did Not Receive Saudi Money, Son Says
False Claims Meant to Divert Attention from “Shame” of Eight Years of House Arrest Without Trial A son of the ...
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July 31, 2018
Conflicting Reports on Iranian Opposition Leaders’ Freedom From House Arrest
A member of Iran’s Parliament has denied reports that the country’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) has ruled to end the seven-year-long house arrests of ...
May 8, 2018
Iranian Opposition Leader Under House Arrest Declines “Limited” Lifting of Restrictions
Zahra Rahnavard Demands Unconditional Freedom For Herself and Fellow House Arrest Detainees Zahra Rahnavard, an Iranian opposition leader ...
March 27, 2018
Supreme Leader’s Comments on “Freedom” in Iran Ring Hollow For Victims of Rights Abuses
A former public defender that worked in Iran on cases involving human rights violations has spoken out ...
January 31, 2018
Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi Urges Supreme Leader to “Create the Grounds For Reform”
In a letter written under house arrest, opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has warned ...
December 8, 2017
IRGC Commander Turned Musician Says He Was Banned From Producing Music by the Intelligence Ministry
Hossein Zaman, a former Revolutionary Guards commander who has been banned from producing or performing music for more than 15 years, says the ban was put in place because Iran’s Intelligence Ministry wants to intimidate him into refraining from expressing his political views ...
December 8, 2017
Opposition Leader Under House Arrest Offers to Serve Remainder of Imprisoned Mothers’ Sentences
Zahra Rahnavard, who has been under extrajudicial house arrest with her husband ...
October 19, 2017
Mousavi’s Daughters: Officials “Hoping and Planning” for Death of Opposition Leaders Under House Arrest
Former presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavian addresses a cheering crowd during the protests following Iran's ...
August 24, 2017
Rouhani VP Reaffirms Promises to Mehdi Karroubi After Pushback by Judiciary
Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri has publicly affirmed promises made by officials of the Rouhani government to detained political leader Mehdi Karroubi after ...
August 16, 2017
Detained Political Leader Mehdi Karroubi on Life-Threatening Hunger Strike
August 16, 2017—The Iranian judiciary must immediately release ailing political leaders Mehdi Karroubi, who is currently on hunger strike, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra ...
August 2, 2017
Iran Should Immediately Release Critically Ill Opposition Leaders Under House Arrest
Karroubi and Mousavi’s Health in Peril After Six Years of Forced Isolation August 2, 2017—More than six years into their extrajudicial house arrest, the health ...
July 30, 2017
MPs Say Efforts “Continuing” to Free Opposition Leaders Amid Karroubi’s Hospitalization
Former presidential candidate Mehdi ...
July 27, 2017
Detained Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi Recovering From Emergency Medical Procedure
Six Years Later, Karroubi Still Awaiting First Trial Former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, under extrajudicial house arrest since 2011, is recovering in the hospital after ...
June 9, 2017
MPs Criticize Friday Prayer Leader for Calling Female Rouhani Supporters “Prostitutes”
The Friday prayer leader of the city of Saveh in central Iran is facing backlash from reformist members of Parliament after he called female supporters ...
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 ...
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 ...
February 5, 2016
Cartoon 137: “Remember the Spent Candle! Remember!”
“Tell our friends for us, remember the spent candle! Remember!" Iranian cartoonist Touka Neyestani's take ...
December 11, 2015
Mother Puts All Hope in Appeals Court to Free Son
“How can a young man who worked hard for Rouhani’s presidential campaign, ‘wage propaganda’ and ‘act against the state’?” That is the ...
December 8, 2015
Students Plead with Rouhani to Release Political Prisoners
President Hassan Rouhani and other senior government officials were met with students expressing frustration over the continuing repression in Iran and demanding the release ...
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 ...
February 8, 2012
Supreme Leader Directly Responsible for Illegal Detentions of Opposition Leaders
(8 February 2012) Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, should immediately release the three opposition leaders who have spent the last year under illegal house arrest and stop using extrajudicial and inhumane methods to silence political opponents, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran ...
October 24, 2011
Political Prisoner’s Health Deteriorates in Prison
A source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Ali Tari was sentenced to 6 months in prison on 11 October 2011 when he appeared at Mati Kola prison in Babol. In the absence of a security ward inside Mati Kola Prison, ...
September 16, 2011
Young Political Activist Receives 50 Lashes for Blogging
Somayeh Tohidlou, political activist and Tehran University Ph.D. student in Sociology, wrote in her blog yesterday that authorities at Evin Prison carried out her sentence of 50 lashes. The flogging took ...
September 14, 2011
Hold Ahmadinejad Accountable for Iran’s Human Rights Crisis During UN Visit
(14 September 2011) Member states of the United Nations as well as the international media should focus on the ongoing human rights crisis in Iran as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York to attend the 66th session of the UN General Assembly, the ...
March 14, 2011
Amidst Ambiguity, Lights Turned On Inside Karroubi Residence
Ambiguity continues to surround the detention and location of Iran’s opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Zahra Rahnavard, and Fatemeh Karroubi. On 10 March however, Saham News quoted one of Mehdi Karroubi’s family members who said the lights inside the Karroubi’s home, located in ...