Grave Concerns for Prisoners in Iran Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
Tehran Prison Lacks Medicines, Sanitary Supplies as Some Inmates Exhibit “Severe” Cold Symptoms February 28, 2020 - The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...
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May 17, 2012
Student Group Report Calls for End to “Educational Apartheid”
The Advocacy Council for the Right to Education (ACRE), also known as the Council for Defending the Right to Education, has published a new report detailing the increasing persecution of and discrimination against university students in Iran. The report notes that this practice has become ...
May 2, 2012
VIDEO: Iran’s Future Held Captive
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran released a video, Iran’s Future Held Captive, and accompanying letter-writing initiative today calling attention to the government’s intensified crackdown on Iranian campuses. This video stands in solidarity with a call by the Iranian student association Daftar Tahkim ...
March 20, 2012
“Furlough Does Not Apply” to Political Prisoner
Authorities have not accepted any requests for exiled political prisoner Zia Nabavi’s furlough nor for his transfer to another prison, his father Ali Akbar Nabavi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...
August 1, 2011
Weekly Rights Podcast 32
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: the final trial session for the three American hikers, Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, and Sara Shourd has taken place; the Campaign published a report entitled, Raising Their Voices: Iranian Civil Society Reactions to the Military Option; the Campaign interviewed ...
July 27, 2011
“I Fear for His Safety,” Says Father of Imprisoned Student Zia Nabavi
َIn an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Ali Akbar Nabavi, father of imprisoned student activist Zia Nabavi, expressed concern about rumors that political prisoners in Ahvaz will soon be transferred back to Karoon Prison. “I talked with Zia on the ...
May 16, 2011
Investigate Torture and Mass Due Process Violations Detailed by Prominent Prisoners of Conscience
(16 May 2011) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran endorsed the call, by prominent prisoners of conscience, for an investigation into torture and mass due process violations and infringements on protections in Iran’s Citizen’s Bill of Rights following the 2009 presidential election. The ...
May 13, 2011
Eyewitness Describes Horrific Conditions Inside Karoon Prison In Ahwaz
Seyed Morteza Bakhtiari, the Minister of Justice, during his recent visit to Karoon Prison in Ahvaz. Payman Roshan Zamir, a political prisoner who spent ...
March 29, 2011
Imprisoned and Exiled Student Activist Transferred Back to Prison
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “starred student” Zia Nabavi’s, told the Campaign that his son has been transferred back to Karoon Prison in Ahvaz. “My son has been returned to Karoon Prizon. I talked to him on the ...
March 11, 2011
Zia Nabavi Being Held in Ahvaz Intelligence Office Says Father
After a month without news from Zia Nabavi after being transferred from Ahvaz’s Karoon Prison to an unknown location, his father, Seyed Ali Akbar Nabavi, spoke with the International Campaign with Human Rights in Iran saying, “We learned last week that he is at the ...
March 1, 2011
Father of Exiled and Imprisoned Student Hopeful that Transfer News is False
Following news that student activist Zia Nabavi was transferred from Ahvaz Prison to an unknown location by security forces, his father, Seyed Ali Akbar Nabavi, expressed concern about the lack of information he has about his son. “Just last week, I heard the news about ...
December 4, 2010
Seyed Ziaoddin (Zia) Nabavi
Seyed Ziaoddin (Zia) Nabavi, a Chemical Engineering student, enrolled in Babol Noshirvani University of Technology in 2002. Between 2003 and 2007, with direct student votes, Nabavi was elected a member of the Central Council of the Islamic Association of the university. He was arrested after ...
August 11, 2010
Prisoners End Hunger Strike — “We Insist On Our Demands”
Fifteen political prisoners have ended their 16-day hunger strike. They published a statement saying that they ended their hunger strike in response to messages from political and civil activists who expressed concern for their health. In recent days, some families of prisoners told the International Campaign ...