by Sadra | Apr 23, 2010 | Blog
Your Excellency, We are a diverse group of nongovernmental organizations from all parts of the world, working in the field of human rights. We write in opposition to the candidacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council,...
by Sadra | Apr 23, 2010 | Blog
(24 April 2010) The withdrawal of Iran’s candidacy for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, which was vociferously opposed by Iranian civil society leaders and human rights community, is a victory for Iranian citizens whose human rights would very likely...
by Sadra | Apr 21, 2010 | Blog
In an interview about the Evin Prison Court which has been established for reviewing the cases of political prisoners, prominent Iranian lawyer and former Deputy Chairperson of the Iranian Bar Association Farideh Gheirat told International Campaign for Human Rights in...
by Sadra | Apr 21, 2010 | Blog
With the travel ban of Hadi Esmaeelzadeh, a member of the Center of Human Rights Defenders, currently seven members of this human rights organization have been barred from leaving Iran. Some of the other members of the organization who have been banned from traveling...
by Sadra | Apr 21, 2010 | Blog
After eight months in prison, Eftekhar Barzegarian was released from Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison. Barzegarian is a Ferdowsi University student activist who was deprived from continuing his education through four semester’s suspension and expelled from the university. He...