(16 May 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is calling on Iranian judicial authorities to account, in terms of Iranian and international law, for the...
(Brussels, 7 May 2008) The European Union should deny visas to Iranian officials who have participated in grave human rights abuses and freeze bank assets held in the EU,...
(5 May 2008) Iranian authorities have systematically thwarted peaceful and legal civil society efforts to advocate for women’s rights in Iran, abusing the legal system and gravely...
(28 April, 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is appealing to Iranian authorities to allow independent labor activists to gather on 1 May to support...
(22 April , 2008) The Iranian Judiciary has issued flogging and prison sentences for four campaigners for women’s rights, thus continuing its program of harassment and ...
(20 April, 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is appealing to the head of Iran’s Judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, to review the sentencing by...
(16 April, 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is urging the Austrian energy company Österreichische Mineralölverwaltung (OMV) to delay finalization of a 22...
(11 April, 2008) Students at Shiraz University are refusing to respond to summonses relating to their participation in peaceful protests in March. The students are reportedly...
(April 9, 2008) Iranian authorities marked the arrival of the Persian New Year with an extensive campaign of summonses and detentions of social and labor activists, the...
(April 9, 2008) Hadi Ghabel, an outspoken Iranian cleric and member of the central council of the reformist Participation Front, was imprisoned on April 7, beginning a 40 month...
UPDATE: (April 7, 2008) The authorities released Mahmoud Salehi after he posted bail in amount of 400 million Rials ($44,000) on April 6, 2008. He is subject to further...
(March 20, 2008) The prosecution and sentencing to death of a Kurdish teacher in Iran are based on “absolutely zero evidence,” according to his lawyer. Kamangar's death...
(March 16, 2008) While leading international figures continue to associate themselves with a statement of support for equal rights and solidarity with Iranian women’s rights...
(March 15, 2008) On March 11, Iranian authorities released four students detained on the previous Sunday during the violent police attack. The detainees were held at the...
(March 7, 2008) In a strong show of international support for the Iranian women’s rights movement, over 280 leading women’s right advocates and organizations from around the...
(March 5, 2008) Independent human rights activists are today launching an international campaign to address egregious human rights violations and the repression of human...
(February 29, 2008)- The Iranian government has intensified its prosecution of women’s rights activists. During the past week, two activists were detained, two summoned to court,...
(February 28, 2008)- In an unpreceedent ruling, an appeals court revised a suspended sentence against Yaghoob Yadali, a novelist, to actual imprisonment. His lawyer said the court...
