by Sadra | Feb 24, 2011 | Blog
This is the “Weekly Rights Podcast.” A review of major human rights issues by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. It’s February 23rd and this is our 23rd weekly podcast: The government of Iran has once again denied its people permission to protest...
by Sadra | Feb 24, 2011 | Blog
The house arrest of prominent opposition figures Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, after members of parliament called for their execution and judicial authorities have not indicted or summoned them to appear in court, is another declining step for the Islamic...
by Sadra | Feb 23, 2011 | Blog
February 23, 2011 | 6:21 am Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday slammed Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi for what he described as “unimaginable repression” against the Libyan people. “It is unimaginable that someone is killing his...
by Sadra | Feb 23, 2011 | Blog
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, Shirin Ebadi, criticized the Iranian government’s refusal to issue permits for peaceful demonstrations and said that...
by Sadra | Feb 22, 2011 | Blog
In Brussels. Belgium Iranian and Kurdish activists gathered in front of the European Parliament building to highlight the ongoing crackdown against protesters in Iran and to urge an immediate halt to the IRI’s use of the death penalty. A mobile billboard calling...