Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand

Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand was arrested in June 2007 and held in solitary confinement. He is the founder of the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan. He has been denied family visiting rights.

Open Letter to Ayatollah Shahroudi: Release Kaboudvand

Open letter to Head of the Judiciary, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, calling for the release of imprisoned human rights activist, Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand.

Open Letter to the Head of the Judiciary: Release Kaboudvand

(25 November 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran urged the head of the Judiciary to annul a 10 year prison sentence for prominent human rights defender Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand.

Spare Four Youths From Execution

(Geneva, 08 July 2008) Today 24 international and regional human rights organizations called on Iranian authorities to spare four youths facing execution and to stop imposing the death penalty for crimes committed by juvenile offenders – persons who commit crimes while under the age of 18, and to uphold their international obligation to enforce the absolute prohibition on the death penalty in such cases

Iran executed 16-year-old Mohammad Hassanzadeh, an Iranian Kurd on 10 June 2008 for a crime committed when he was 14. Four other juvenile offenders are at risk of execution between 11 and 25 July. The organizations called on the head of Iran’s judiciary to suspend these four executions immediately.