March 8, 2018

Ongoing Harassment: Wife of Iranian-Canadian Who Died in Iran’s Evin Prison “Banned” From Leaving Country

Lives of Seyed-Emami Family Thrown Into “Chaos and Terror” March 8, 2018—The Iranian government should immediately allow the wife of Iranian-Canadian academic and environmentalist ...

March 1, 2018

Iranian MP Calls For Separation of Powers Among Rival Intelligence Agencies

Former Intelligence Minister Admits Iranian-Canadian Zahra Kazemi Was Killed in Evin Prison in 2003 Iran’s Parliamentary Committee for National Security and Foreign Policy is drafting ...

January 10, 2018

Iranian Human Rights Organizations File Motion in Germany Against Ayatollah Shahroudi for Crimes Against Humanity

A coalition of Iranian human rights NGOs including Centre for Defenders of Human Rights, Centre for Human Rights in Iran, Impact Iran, Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre, Justice for Iran, and the Siamak Pourzand Foundation, has ...

November 15, 2011

“His Continued Detention Is Neither Moral Nor Legal,” Says Soltani’s Wife

Massoumeh Dehghan, wife of human rights lawyer and founding member of Defenders of Human Rights Center Abdolfattah Soltani, who has been inside Evin Prison’s Ward 209 for the past two months, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about her husband’s condition. ...

June 20, 2011

Prisoners of Conscience Who Died in Custody

1. Zahra Kazemi - 10 July 2003 2. Akbar Mohammadi - 30 July 2003 3. Mohammad Rajabi Sani - October 2004 4. Valiollah Feiz Mahdavi - 6 September 2006 5. Zahra Baniyaghoub - 14 October, 2007 6. Ebrahim Lotfollahi - 15 January 2008 7. Hossein Heshmat Saran - 6 March 2008 8. ...

February 4, 2008

Impunity Ad Infinitum

The recent death of a student detainee in Iran brings into sharp focus the unlimited impunity enjoyed by security and intelligence forces. One of the most pervasive issues afflicting Iran’s justice system is the ability of interrogators, prison guards, and judiciary agents to — literally ...