November 19, 2021

Victims of State Oppression Defy Iranian Government’s Denial of the Right to Mourn

The right to mourn is a human right, yet totalitarian regimes have long tried to deny this right to families who’ve lost loved ...

July 14, 2016

Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Quits after Years of State Harassment and Threats

“In this society, lawyers who bear witness to injustice and speak the truth get punished.” Constant pressure and harassment by Iran’s Judiciary and ...

August 11, 2014

Carton 90: “Dastardly and Unfair,” Says Sattar Beheshti’s Mother of Murderer’s Sentence

Almost two years after the death of dissident blogger Sattar Beheshti under torture while in police detention, Cyber police interrogator Akbar Taghizadeh was sentenced to three years in prison, two years in exile, ...

April 11, 2014

Family of Blogger Killed in Custody Insists on Murder Charges

Sattar Behesti, a blogger who died under torture by a prison interrogator, with his mother. The family of ...

March 15, 2014

Activist Who Met With Ashton Decries Defamation by Hardliners

Mohammadi told the Campaign, "I have held a pen in my hand for 20 years ...

March 14, 2014

Human Rights Activist Rejects Criticism of her Meeting with Ashton

"I and a number of women's rights activists were formally invited," to meet Ashton, Mohammadi said. "I saw nothing wrong with the invitation and therefore I accepted it. But what I ...

March 12, 2014

Paper Close to Revolutionary Guards Doctors Ashton Photo to Erase Image of Torture Victim’s Mother

Almost immediately after EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton met with a group of activists in Tehran, Iranian authorities unleashed a barrage of angry remarks and insults about her visit. ...

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