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November 29, 2011

Labor Activist on Hunger Strike in Protest to Lack of Medical Treatment

Labor activist Reza Shahabi, who has been in prison since his 12 June 2010 arrest, embarked on a dry hunger strike on 22 November in protest of the Evin Prison authorities’ lack of medical treatment and attention to his illness. His family has heard no ...

November 28, 2011

Student Activist Denied Prison Leave to Take Exam

Reza Tabarzadi, father of imprisoned human rights activist and student Abdolfazl Tabarzadi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the Ahvaz Prosecutor denied his son permission to leave prison for a few hours last Wednesday to take a graduate admission test. “I ...

November 28, 2011

“Because I Complained I Was Arrested Again,” Says Payman Aref

Almost a month after the arrest of student activist Payman Aref, his wife told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that authorities are not providing any causes for his arrest and her attempts to find out about his case have been futile. On ...

November 25, 2011

Imprisoned Journalist in IRGC-Operated Ward

More than two months since the detention of imprisoned journalist Amir Ali Allamehzadeh, a source close to his family told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his case has been assigned to a new investigative judge and transferred to Evin Prison Court. ...

November 24, 2011

Podcast 41: An Interview with Hamid Dabashi

In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast, we explore the topic of U.S. military intervention in Iran. We discuss the recent IAEA report and the increased talk amongst senior U.S. officials about bombing Iran. We talk to Columbia University Professor Hamid Dabashi about the effect of ...

November 23, 2011

Mohammad Tavassoli Under Pressure for Forging Letter to Khatami

Since his 3 November arrest, 74-year-old Mohammad Tavassoli, Political Secretary of Iran’s Freedom Movement, has been in prison without any communication with his family. ...

November 22, 2011

Podcast 40: Maziar Bahari on the Crackdown on Filmmakers

In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast, we examine the Iranian government’s crackdown on independent and documentary filmmakers and actors. We talk to Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian filmmaker and journalist, about the arrests of six independent documentary filmmakers who were charged with collaborating with BBC Persian. ...

November 21, 2011

Security Forces Raid Iran Newspaper, Beat, Pepper Spray, and Arrest Journalists

Shortly after an armed raid by security and police forces on Iran Newspaper’s editorial offices today, a journalist present at the scene provided an eyewitness account for the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “Everyone is still covered in white fire extinguisher powder. All ...

November 21, 2011

UN Resolution Ramps Up Cross-Regional International Pressure on Iran’s Human Rights Crisis

(21 November 2011) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomed the resolution concerning Iran’s grave human rights violations, adopted today by the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (GA). “We embrace the adoption of this resolution and encourage UN member states ...

November 21, 2011

Podcast 39: “Education Under Fire”

After the 1979 Revolution, Iranian authorities renewed a historic campaign to eradicate members of the Baha;i community. Since then, over 200 Iranian Baha’i ’s have been executed, disappeared, or killed for their beliefs. Thousands more have been imprisoned and have had personal property confiscated or ...

November 18, 2011

Podcast 41: An Interview with Hamid Dabashi

In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast, we explore the topic of U.S. military intervention in Iran. We discuss the recent IAEA report and the increased talk amongst senior U.S. officials about bombing Iran. We talk to Columbia University Professor Hamid Dabashi about the effect of ...

November 18, 2011

Imprisoned Journalist Awaits Surgery After Nine Months

Mehdi Mahmoudian, an imprisoned journalist and member of the Participation Front political party, was transferred from Rajaee Shahr Prison to a hospital in May 2011 and will undergo surgery Thursday morning. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a source ...

November 17, 2011

Soltani To File Suit Against Javad Larijani for False Terrorist Accusation

One day after Mohammad Javad Larijani claimed that distinguished human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani, who is currently inside Evin Prison, was connected to terrorist groups, his wife, Massoumeh Dehghan, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Soltani has never faced such an ...

November 17, 2011

Arrests of Kurdish Activists Continues: Three More Arrests

Varia Khosravi, a civil activist In the continuing wave of recent arrests of Kurdish political and civil activists, a local human rights activist told the International Campaign for Human ...

November 16, 2011

Iranian Official at the UN Hurls Baseless Accusations at Top Lawyer and Opposition Leaders

(16 November 2011) Iranian authorities should stop misrepresenting their human rights record in order to deflect international criticism and justify widely reported illegal detentions, said the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran today. Mohammad Javad Larijani, a top Iranian official and head of the High ...

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. ...

November 14, 2011

Continued Detention of Photojournalist Inside Evin’s Ward 209

Despite the completion of his interrogation, reporter and photojournalist Reza Entessari remains detained inside Evin Prison’s Ward 209. “The Investigative Judge has converted his temporary detention orders to bail orders. But despite completion of his interrogations, as he is unable to post the $50,000 bail, ...

November 12, 2011

The Deterioration of Prison Conditions in Iran: 13 Thousand Inmates Packed in a Prison with Three Thousand Capacity

Last week, the Prosecutor General of the Revolutionary Court of Mashhad, Mahmoud Zoghi, told journalists that the Central Prison in the northeastern city of Mashhad, whose nominal capacity is 3,000 ...

November 11, 2011

“The People Who Flogged Payman Are Upset Because He Spoke Out”

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Samira Jamshidi, wife of student activist Payman Aref, spoke about her husband’s case following his 1 November detention. Aref had been flogged and released on 9 October after serving 11 months in Evin ...

November 11, 2011

Kurdish Cultural Figures Receive Prison Sentences for ‘Acting Against National Security’

A source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that eight literary and cultural figures from Gilan-e Gharb in Kermanshah Province, who were arrested by security forces last August, were sentenced to a total of 13 years in prison by the Gilan-e Gharb ...

November 10, 2011

Katayoun Shahabi and Mehran Zinatbakhsh Released

According to a report by Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) website, Katayoun Shahabi, an Iranian documentary film distributor and Mehran Zinatbaskh, a documentary filmmaker, who were arrested along with several other documentary filmmakers on 17 September on the charge of cooperating with BBC Television, were ...

November 7, 2011

Ebrahim Yazdi Offers No Defense to Protest Lack of Jurisdiction in Revolutionary Court

Mehdi Nourbakhsh, son-in-law of Ebrahim Yazdi, the former Secretary General of the Iran Freedom Movement, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Ebrahim Yazdi did not offer any defense at his 2 November trial, choosing to maintain silent. “He had a court ...

November 4, 2011

UN Committee Says Iran Fails to Uphold the Majority of Civil and Political Rights

On 4 November 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Committee issued its concluding observations regarding Iran’s record of upholding civil and political rights. The Committee, which is comprised of leading human rights experts, raised concerns that Iran fails to meet, what amounts to, the majority ...

November 4, 2011

Abdollah Momeni’s Wife: “We Are Prohibited from Visiting Him Because He Wrote the Truth”

Fatemeh Adinehvand, wife of prisoner of conscience and student activist Abdollah Momeni, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that her husband is under interrogation in prison and is not in good spirits. “On Monday, 24 October, when I went to visit him ...

November 2, 2011

Children of Arrested Baha’is: “We Have No Recourse”

Following the sentencing of seven Baha’is associated with the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court, their families’ only hope is that the Appeals Court will change the ruling. They were each sentenced to four or five years in ...

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