Time for Brazil to Change Its UN Vote on Iran (Commentary)
(November 25, 2012) In an oped published today in the Brazilian newspaper, O Estado de São Paulo, Camila Lissa Asano and Hadi Ghaemi discuss why Brazil should change its upcoming… ...
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November 19, 2012
Nasrin Sotoudeh in Solitary Confinement, 18 Months Without a Phone Call
“When Nasrin launched her hunger strike, our visiting days had been confirmed for Sundays, along with the other women prisoners of conscience. As she is in solitary confinement, though, they… ...
October 31, 2012
Sakharov Prize-winner Sotoudeh’s Detention Highlights Denial of Basic Rights
(Paris, London, New York, October 31, 2012) Iran’s judiciary and prison authorities should end mistreatment of the prominent rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi and six human… ...
October 29, 2012
Cartoon 29: Persevering Even in Prison
Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent Iranian lawyer, has dedicated her life to fighting for human rights and defending prisoners of conscience in Iran. For her work, she was recently awarded the… ...
October 26, 2012
Imprisoned Iranian Lawyer Awarded Sakharov Prize, Family Says She Is in Critical Condition
The European Parliament today awarded its prestigious Sakharov Prize for human rights and freedom of thought to imprisoned Iranian lawyer and human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh and prominent filmmaker Jafar… ...
October 23, 2012
Nasrin Sotoudeh to Continue Hunger Strike Until Daughter’s Travel Ban Lifted
Protesting her prison conditions, Nasrin Sotoudeh embarked on a wet hunger strike beginning on Wednesday, October 17. Iranian Judiciary officials have not yet reacted to Sotoudeh’s demands. Nasrin Sotoudeh is… ...
October 3, 2012
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah Refuses to Make TV Confessions, Starts 9-Year Prison Sentence
Human rights lawyer and activist Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, who was under pressure to provide televised confessions against the Defenders of Human Rights Center, commenced his nine-year prison sentence at Evin… ...
October 2, 2012
UN Human Rights Office Calls Out Iranian Crackdown on Critical Voices
In a statement released October 2, 2012, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations expressed its concern over “the arrest and imprisonment of several… ...
September 27, 2012
Sotoudeh Nominated for Sakharov Prize, Denied In-person Visitation for Writing Defense on Tissue
Nasrin Sotoudeh, imprisoned lawyer and human rights activist, was nominated this week for the prestigious European Union Sakharov Human Rights Prize. News of her nomination arrived just as she has… ...
August 17, 2012
61 Political Prisoners Released; Others Denied Furlough
Most of the prisoners who were released had already served half of their sentences. Iranian law stipulates that inmates who have served half of their prison term may be released… ...
August 6, 2012
Cartoon 13: Inherited Punishment (For Nasrin Sotoudeh and her Daughter)
…Recently, lawyer and prisoner of conscience Nasrin Sotoudeh’s 12-year-old daughter Mehraveh received a ruling banning her from foreign travel. The ruling did not indicate any reasons for the travel ban…. ...
August 1, 2012
American Hikers’ Lawyer Threatened, Interrogated, Denied Permission to Leave Iran
Massoud Shafiee, the lawyer who represented the three Americans who were released after more than a year in an Iranian prison, said in an exclusive interview with the International Campaign… ...
July 12, 2012
Officials Should Stop Denying the Existence of Political Prisoners
(July 12, 2012) Iranian officials should cease spreading lies and disinformation about the existence of political prisoners as they are simultaneously imprisoning hundreds for exercising their legal rights, the International… ...
July 12, 2012
Nasrin Sotoudeh’s 13-year Old Daughter Banned From Foreign Travel
A security court in Tehran has ruled to ban foreign travel for human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, and her daughter, Mehraveh Khandan, 13. Reza and Mehraveh Khandan… ...
July 2, 2012
Podcast 49: Women in Iran with Minky Worden
The stories of sweeping reform across the Middle East has captured the attention of many of us. In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast, Minky Worden, Director of Global Initiatives at… ...
May 14, 2012
“Confess on TV or Go to Prison,” Authorities Tell Dadkhah
Human rights lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he has been under immense pressure during recent days to make false televised confessions…. ...
May 7, 2012
UN STATEMENT: Independent UN Experts Urge Iran to Ensure Protection for Rights Defenders
In a statement released today, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders Margaret Sekaggya, and Special Rapporteur on the… ...
April 6, 2012
Nasrin Sotoudeh Denied Furlough, Telephone Contact
Prominent human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh was deprived of furlough and telephone contact with her family during the Persian New Year, her husband Reza Khandan told the International Campaign for… ...
March 12, 2012
Special Rapporteur Receives Widespread Support in Human Rights Council
Iranian Delegate Responds Angrily Without Addressing Report’s Content Head of Iran’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani delivers his opening statements at today’s Human Rights Council (Reporting… ...
March 2, 2012
Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand in Critical Condition, Denied Basic Prisoner Rights
Imprisoned Kurdish activist Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand is in critical condition after embarking on a hunger strike over two weeks ago, his wife told the International Campaign for Human Rights in… ...
February 26, 2012
Iranian Lawyers Need Independence
Today marks the 58th anniversary of the Iranian Bar Association’s independence. In February 1954, after a tireless campaign by some prominent lawyers, Iran’s legislators passed a law recognizing the independence… ...
December 31, 2011
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December 23, 2011
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December 17, 2011
On International Human Rights Day, Norwegians Support Sotoudeh
…outside of the location Nobel Peace Prize awarding ceremony in Oslo, demanding the freedom of political prisoners such as Nasrin Sotoudeh. The demonstrators lit candles and carried banners, expressing their… ...
December 12, 2011
Le Monde Reports on the Free Sotoudeh Project
Coverage of the Campaign’s Free Sotoudeh Project in France…. ...