by Sadra | Oct 18, 2011 | Blog
As flogging sentences issued and carried out by Iranian judges and judicial authorities are on the rise, during a meeting of the UN Human Rights Committee today in which the Iranian government’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights...
by Sadra | Oct 18, 2011 | Blog
A month after the arrest of five independent Iranian filmmakers on charges of working for BBC Persian, 21 Iranian filmmakers and actors living outside of the country signed a statement asking the international community to boycott official Iranian film and television...
by Sadra | Oct 17, 2011 | Blog
(15 October 2011) The Iranian government should immediately allow access to the UN appointed Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed to address Iran’s ongoing human rights crisis, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today, following the release...
by Sadra | Oct 14, 2011 | Blog
Summary The present report is submitted in accordance with General Assembly solution 65/226, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit a report to it at its sixty-sixth session. The report reflects the patterns and trends in the human rights...
by Sadra | Oct 14, 2011 | Blog
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Naim Sobhani, son of Riaz Sobhani, an Iranian Baha’i imprisoned at Evin Prison for the past four months on the charge of providing financial assistance to the Baha’i University in Iran, spoke...