Letter to Foreign Ministers of OIC members

14 March 2011 Letter to Foreign Ministers of OIC members Excellencies, We, the undersigned independent human rights organizations, take the liberty to appeal to members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to support a Resolution in the United Nations...

RFE/RL: ‘No New Year Leave’ For Iranian Political Prisoners

March 17, 2011 Iranian political prisoners will not be allowed the customary temporary leave to celebrate the upcoming new year, under a directive by the head of the judiciary, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports. Last year, many political prisoners including renowned...

Family Members of Prisoners Beaten Outside Evin Prison

A human rights activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that dozens of family members of political prisoners who had gone to Evin Prison hoping to receive bail or furlough orders for their kin, faced insults and in some cases beatings from...